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HARLEM GEORGIA
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The New York Timet de- fare* that
•'all the mo»t successful farmer* are now
epecialiaU One grow* apple* and pears,
u>d hie name is well known in the mar
kata at home and abroad, for thousands
of barrel, of choice fruit bearing hi.
name are scattered over two continent*.
Another produces fine butter, and ha* a
rteady and regular market for hi. pro
duct. One grow, potatoes and sella
several thousand dollars worth every
year. Others breed .lock, boms, cattle,
sheep, and some poultry and hogs, but
all gain a reputation in their own way.
end have a sure and wide outlet for th-dr
product*. It muat now be so with the
majority of fanners, for they have been
east adrift from their old landmark and
hare fallen into a network of cross cur
rent* which carry them wholly away
from their former courses. An instance
of thia is the dairy, which is wholly at
the meicy of a substituted artificial pro
duct against which there is no possible
competition excepting by making the
choicest quality of butter and cheese.
Ohio river fiat boatmen in old timet
used to have a saying, and believed in it
too, that "water is clean after it has
flowed over nine stones, no matter w hat
It was before." “It would be comforting
to fastidious New 5 orkers," says a metro
polltan paper, “if they had soma such
conviction a. an offset to the hideous
information made public by InS|»cctor
lewis, of the health department, to the
effect that "the territory from which the
Croton water supplies is obtained em
braces cesspool*. barnyards, **,455 cows,
1,244 horses, 1,500 pigs, and 20 sheep,
and a population of 20,000 person, with
their dwellings." The first thing we
know some I’hils'lclphia newspaper will
be finding out about this and saying:
'Why! Hello! Croton water is as
filthy as our own Schuylkill" This
matter of pollution of the water supplies
of our large cities ia a most momentous
one already, and must become more and
more serkus as our population increases.
It is simply enisling, in view of the facts
eiisting, that jieoplo arc not more gener
ally careful to have thoroughly filtered
the water they require for household
u«o."
Food of the Burmese.
The flush of the python is much es
teemed bv the Karens for food, and the
gad bladder for medicine All lizards
of the varanid r family are highly valued
for food, and sought for in hollow trees
by the aid of dogs. The Karens steal
up the tree with a noose at the end of a
bamboo, and snare them while leap
ing for the water, or catch them in a
boat beneath the tree. The head is
doomed venomous; but the lle.h of the
othei part, is preferred Io fowls. If not
neoJeu for immediate consumption, the
captive is rendered helpless by breaking
some of the toe* and knotting the sinew*
The eggs are equally esteemed. The
padat (Liontlus guttagus) is herbivorous,
ami in high favor ns a viand. The flesh
of thi-mijyoung it'rockodilus , which is
very common ami reaches thirty feet in
length, is In groat request for food. A
kind of turtle during the inundations
liecomcs scattered about the country, and
on the auckidcncc of the floods, and dur
ing the grass burning In April, many uro
wittier caught alive, or their scorched
bodies are found afterward, and greatly
relished by the (M-ople The flesh of the
soft turtles is generally eaten by the
Burmese, and may bj good, though the
animals arc carnivorous. The le kpycn
won is algivorou., un i is the "edible
turtle" of India. I'he boatmen on the
river make it a practice, when mooring
at a spot, to hunt in the neighboring
ducket, for lizards, chameleons. snakes,
and similar reptiles, with which thev
flavor the invariable dish of boiled rice.
Even lizard, found dead are cs eemed a
great delicacy when cooked. The Bur
mese exhibit decided peculiarities in
their choice of comestible. There is a
small kind of beetle which fabricates
balls of clay as a nidus for its nrogenev.
about the same size as tennis balls, and
buries them in ground where cattle are
stalled These balls are eagerly sought
after by the Burmese for the sake of the
dainty grub contained within, which
thev devour with uncommon relish
r** Aw-?.
The Birth of an Iceberg.
The birth of a huge iceberg, a phe
nomenon that has been seen only on e
or twice by a European, and to a certain
extent has remained a matter of theory,
was observed by the Danish explorcrson
the east coast of Greenland last summer
The bergs aie formed bv breaking off
from the perpetual iee of the unexplored
interior to the coast and into the sea
The water buoy* up the sea end of the
glacier until it breaks by its own weight
with a noise that sounds like loud
thunder miles awav. The commotion of
the water, as the iceberg turns over and
over in the effort to attain it * balance, is
felt to a great distance along the coast.
The natives regard it as the work of
evil spirits, and believe that to look upon
the glacier in its throes is death The
Danish officers, when observing the
breaking off of the end of the great gia
cier Puiasortok through their telescopes,
were roughly ordete I by th-.-i Esquimaux
escort, usually subm *sive en -gli, to
follow their example and turn their Packs
on the Interesting scene. They had
happily completed their observation,
ant av -de i an embarrassing conflict
with the crew bv a teeming compliance
with the order. '
On'y twenty live |>cr cent, of the 50.
<»OU Indian i luldren in this country are
receiving ..i education.
Pagan .Myo, on the bank of the Irra
waddy, just above Minis, and now in
possession of the British troops, b the
ancient capital of Burmah and in ruins-
It extends for two miles along the river
and is r ooked with jungle. Its pagodaa
are almost count let*. «nd one of them
rank* next to the famous Taj Mansi.
The neighboring hills are dotted with
ruined pagodas razed by the hill tribe*
who are no’ Buddhists) for the sake of
1 the gold ami silver images of < aiitsms
buried fieoestb each when it wav
founded
lio English papers contain an order
from the privy council which requires
ev-ry local authority in England. Bales
and Scotland to slaughter within
two day* of the existence of the
disease becoming known to them
all swine affected with swine fever, and
all swine which have been in contact
with such affected swine, the compensa
tion io the former case being fixed at
one half the value of the animal and in
the latter case st the full value.
,M. de Leweps, the great constructor
of canals, has been making some state
merits that agriculturist* might think of
with profit. He say* that one pound of
flour i» worth three pound, of beef. He
ask. why cereal- are fed to cattle, hog*
and sheep. "Why not," he says, "eat
the grain instead of feeding it to ani
mal*)” He say* that England is sup
porting 82,000,000 rattle, sheep and
hog. upon cereal* she herself raise., while
■he import, flour from America to feed
her people.
Th-* supreme court of Indiana hns just
decided that where property has been
destroyed by fire from sparks negli
gently permitted to escape from a loco
motive the owner may recover its full
value from the railway company, not
withstanding the fact that the property
was fully insured and the insurance com
pany had paid the loss. In other words,
if a person happens to be lucky enough i
to have his building burned by a chance
snark, and also has it insured in a sol
vent company, he may get twice its value
in solid cash.
A company of American, are to lay a
paper railway in Russia. The uses of
paper are becoming amazingly extended,
and will be likely to do some queer tricks
witli rhetoric a. people now may think
Perhaps it will not seem strange some
year* hence to read in a newspaper of a
locomotive "fiercely flagellating the all
enduring paper nails, and striking fire I
and thunder from them at every mighty :
bound," but it seems now as though it 1
would. Inevitably cannon balls will
come to be made of paper, and the New-
Yorker of the future may learn with sor
row and alarm of the demolition of Fort
Hamilton by the "heavy paper hail’ |
poured upon it by a hostile vessel lying ’
far out at sea.
Yow, when the mercury sinks out of 1
sight and the water-pipes freeze up, there
is a timely renewal of the proposition to
dam the Strait of Belie Isle, between
Newfoundland and Labrador, so as to
deflect tin Arctic current which now '
passes through, turning it eastward and j
allowing the warm water of the Gulf ;
Stream to flow northward close to the
•bores It is claimed that this warding
off of the frigid waters would give
mild and genial climate from Nova Scotia
to Cape Hatteras, like that of Spain j
and Northern Italy In the same latitude.
This stringing of new isothermal lines
will be expensive, and the scheme is not
likely to prosper. But it is better to dam
the Strait of Belle Isle than to imprecate
the weather.
During the past decade the savings
batiks of the I n.ted States have de
creased to the number of fifty, while !
their total resources have increased ;
1227,000,000, and the aggregate amount
of their deposits $189,000,000. The.
average amount to each depositor has
fluctuated from $.152 to s;isti. From
the belt information obtainable the
number of savings banks at the present :
time, by geographical divisions, is as
fo'lows :
No. Capital
Vw England 420 sj„i l>X |
Middle State* .....IM
b -uth.-rn Status 5 v»i ,x-o
western State* 4S 2.72.1 000
Total. tt’Jl $4,0X1.00)
Os the total number of savings banks
about 5‘K) arc without capital, which ex
plain* in the table above the small
amount of total capital.
The territory of Alaska is s > far away
and in the popular imagination is so
closely associate I with polar bears and
everlasting snows that, though it is
part and parcel of the United States of
America, but little is kn >w.i of it bv
Americans. There are reasons now for
the belief that at no distant day Alaska
w ill be more familiar to the people under
whose protection it was placed by the
purchase of 1837, and it would n t be
surprising if, in the development o.' its '
undoubted mineral and timber resources,
it should become ere long au important
and influential State. The terr.tore is:
of vast extent, having more than ~000 '
miles of seacoast, and s > varied is its
climate that, while portions of it are I
a’most uninhabitable, other sections are, ■
by reason of the warm currents from the 1
Pacific ocean, made as salubr.ous a. the 1
middle Southern States.
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William E. Curtis write* a* follow*
from .Montevideo to the Chicago Inter-
O-ean: There i» no city more delight
fully situated than the capital of Uru
guay, and viewed from any direction
the prospect of .Montevideo is a lovely
one. Vital statistic* give it the small
est death rate in the world, and the cli
mate is a mixture of June and October.
Were it not for those dreadful gales
called “pamperos,” which, during the
winter season, sweep the whole southern
half of the continent from the Andes to
theses, searching every nook and crevice
for dust to cast into the face* of the people,
and parching the akin, thi* place might
lie made an earthly type of Paradise. But
nothing can afford shelter from these
Marching wind*, and even strawberries
the year around are no compensation
.Montevideo is built upon a limestone
reef like a turtle’s back, which extends
about two miles into the Rio Plata, and
slopes from the center in either direction
to the water’s edge, so that the drainage
is perfect, and the street, in the middle
of the town are 200 feet higher than
those along the beach. This ridge shel
ter. a hemispherical bay from the storms
that come from the Atlantic, but against
the pamperos, which are more severe,
the shipping has no protection whatever,
and when they come vessel* prefer to
run outside, where they can have plenty
of -ea room, to taking the risk of colli
sions in the harbor, for an anchor is of
very little use in a pampero. Around
the curve of the bay, fronting the water,
are a series of beautiful villas, or "quin
tas,” as they are called (pronounced kiu
tasj, the suburban residences of wealthy
men, built in the ancient Italian style,
with all the luxury and lavish display of
modern extravagance, and reminding I
one of the Pompeian palaces, or the ;
Roman villas in the golden age which I
Horace pictured in his odes. Os the
most picturesque architecture, these resi
dences would be anywhere attractive,
but here they are surrounded by a per
petual garden and thousands of flowers,
which preserve their color and their fra
grance winter and summer, and give the
place an appearance of everlasting
Bfring.
Uruguay is as progressive as the Ar
gentine Republic, and is quite as full of
modern improvements. There are many
j beautiful residences and fine stores in
■Montevideo, and the people proudly
boast that anything can be fouud there
that can be bought in Paris. There are
three theatres and an Italian opera, a
race-course, and any number of clubs, a
university, public library, museum, and
all the etceteras of modern civilization.
The ladies dress in the height of Paris
fashions, and among the aristocracy
serial life is very gay. The people are
highly educated, are making money fast,
; and spend it like princes. The Hotel
Oriental is the best in South America,
, being built of Italian marble and luxuri
ously furnished; and there are more
daily papers in proportion to the popula
tion than in any city in the world ; an
illustrated weekly journal is published,
and a monthly literary magazine; there
are hospitals, asylums, and other benevo
i lent institutions supported by public and
' private charityjtwo Protestant churches,
> several Protestant schools; fifty-five
j miles of street railways, carrying 9,00),-
• 000 passengers a year—which is a re
' markably high average for a city of
120,000 people; boulevards and parks,
gas and electric lights, telephones
without number, : nd only now and theu
docs something oc.-ur to remind a tourist
that he is not in one of the most modern
! of cities.
One of the curious customs is the
manufacture of butter. The dairyman
pours the milk, while still warm, into
an inflated pig or coat skin, hitches it to
his saddle by a long latso, and gallops
five or six miles into town with the milk
sack pounding along on the road behind
him. When he reaches the city his churn
ing is over, the butter is made, and he
peddles it from door to door, dipping
out the quantity desired bj- eacli family
with a long wooden spoon Though all
sorts of modern agricultural machinery
are used on the farms of Uruguay, no
amount of persuasion can induce the
natives to adopt the wooden churn.
Some of the foreigners use them, but
the butter is said to be not s> good as
that made in this curious, primitive
fashion. Fresh milk is sold by driving
cows from door to door along the princi
pal streets and milking them into the
jars brought out by the customers.
The standing army of Uruguay con
sists of 5,000 men,mostly concentrated at
the capital. Their uniform is of the
zouave pattern, with the exception of
the president s body guard, a battalion
of 300 or -100 men, dressed in a novel
and striking costume of leopard skins.
There are several fine bands connected
with the army which give concerts on
alternate evenings in the plazas, which
are attended by all classes of people,
and furnish an opportunity f -r flirtations.
Everybody rides. No one thinks of
walking. Each family has its carriage
and saddle horse, and even the beggars
,go about the streets on horseback. It is
a common thing to be stopped on the
street by a horseman and asked for a
“centavo.” which is worth two and a
half cents of our money. These inci
dents are somewhat startling at first, and
suggest highway robbery, but the appeal
is made in such a humble, pitiful tone
that the feeling of alarm s ion vanishes.
"For the love of Jesus, Senor, give a
poor, sick man a centavo. ' I’ve had no
bread or coffee to day.” And receiving
the pittance the beggar will gallop off
like a cowb.iv to the nearest drinkin”
place.
The nation il drink is called cana ( pro
, nounced canyahl. and is made of the fer
mented juice of the sugar cane. It con
tains about ninety per cent, alcohol, and
i is s>ld at two cents a goblet, so that a
spree in Uruguay is within the reach of
the poorest man But there is verv
little intemperance in comparison with
that in our own country. On oidinarv
days drunken men are seldom seen upon
tin l streets, but on the evening after a
1 religious feast the common people usual- j
- ly engige in a glorious carousal.
Tire vestibules of the tenement hous-s.
‘ and the patios or courts which invaria
bly turn sh a cool loafing place in the
1 center of each, are commonly paved
with the knuckle bones of sheets, sr-
ranged in fantastic design* like mosaic
' work. They always attract the atten
■ tion of strangers, and it is a standins
joke to tell the tenderfoot that they an
the knuckle bones of human lie.ng!
> killed during the many revolutions
i The ladies of Uruguay are considered
to rank next to their sisters of Peru in
, beauty, and there is something about the
atmosphere which gives the r complex ion
a purity and clearness that is not else
where found. But when they reich
maturity, like all Spanish ladies, the-,
lose their grace and symmetry of form,
and become very stout. This is un
doubtedly owing in a great degree tfi
their lack of exercise, for they never
walk, but spend their entire lives in a
carriage or a rocking-chair.
The policemen in Montevideo are de
tailed from the anny and carry sabers
instead of clubs, which they use with
telling effect upon offenders who resist
arrest. A few years ago there was no
safety for people who were out late nt
1 night either in the city or the country.
robberies and murders were of frequent
occurrence, and the prisons were empty.
But President Santos rules with an iron
hand, and after a few highwaymen and
murderer* were hanged, there was a no
ticeable change in the condition of af
fairs, and now a woman or a child is as
safe upon the streets or highways of the
country as in their own homes.
WISE WORDS.
When one becomes so conceited that
he can’t be taught, he and a fool wear
the same style of cap.
Nobody is perfect, but forbearance
and love do much to soften the irritable,
hard edges of existence.
Good fortune seldom comes pure and
single, unattended by some troublesome
or unexpected circumstance.
If all would realize that cruelty is a*
bitter to others as it is to themselves,
I there would be less of it practiced.
Nothing is so great an instance of ill
manners an flattery. If you flatter all
the company you please none. If you
flatter only one or two, you affront the
rest.
No character can possibly embrace all
types of perfection, for the perfection of
a type depends not only upon the virtues
that constitute it, but upon the order
and prominence assigned to them.
Prejudices are like the knots in the
glass of our windows. They alter the
shape ot everything that we choose to
look at through them; they make
straight things crooked and everything
indistinct.
Sympathy produces harmony; it
smoothes off the rough edges of conflict
ing characters; it brings the cheeriness
of the hopeful to cha.e away the feais
of the desponding; it draws reinforce
ment for the weakness or the want of
some from the wealth or strength of
others.
Scaring the Chinamen.
The engineer of an ocean steamship iu I
the course of a conversation with a New
York Tribune reporter said: "I have on
a book n the engine room a curious
table of dates and figures, which shows
to me the exact time for every mi.e m de
by different steamers which I have en-
ginecred across the ocean for the last i
fourteen years. If anything more than |
usual occurs I jot it down opposite the ,
date, and so make a sort of diary of it. :
It speaks volvmes to me, and recalls I
many interesting memories. For in
stance. I was looking through it the
other day, and I found opposite Novcm- |
ber 1(1, 1875, a reference to a visit fr in
Chinamen. The incident was rec.died j
t > my mind in a moment, and 1 laughed
heartily over it to myself. Thi- is what J
it meant. One day while lying in port
we were visited by several Chinamen ;
who were anxious to inspect the ship, j
They were au ignorant set, and had
never seen any machinary worked by I
steam. The captain was a good-natured I
fellow and allowed them to come below,
although they experienced some doubts
ns to the ad visibility of so doing. They
were very timid, and it tcok some time
for me to convince them that the ma- |
chinery was harmless. Finally I got ;
two of them to come close to the heavv :
driving roJ, which yo i know on a large j
vessel is an enormous piece of iron. Sud- 1
denly, without warning, it gave a start
forward, and, accompanied by a loud I
puff of steam, leaped fully ten feet above
our heads. Angry at my assistant for 1
letting on steam without my knowledge,
I turned to speak to him when my atten
tion was attracted toward the stairway, j
The last two Chinamen of the party were ;
making frantic endeavors to jump up :
half a dozen steps at a time The rest !
had disappeared, and before I could get
on deck the whole crowd had got into 1
their boat and started for the shore. No
amount of persuasion could ever o-et
them to return to that ship, which they j
claimed was alive. It was a mean trick, ;
but it has afforded me a good laugh
since.”
Man's Deepest Emotion.
The deepest emotion that man knows
is love. If, like the air plants, its roots
are upward, and love works with moral
sentiment, it is divine, and is that at
mosphere through which the image, the
ideal, the true thought of God is to make
itself known.
Il is the great end toward which all
creation is tending. The discovery of
that thought has been of inconceivable
comfort to me. fori have seen the human
race beginning at the lowest state of an
iraalism, grasping, cruel; I have seen the
animal creation organized for cruelty
the shark, the leopard, the lion, as if de
structiveness was part and parcel of the
original creative design: out of it 1 have
seen little by little emerging other
qualities; love of cubs and whelps; with
slow steps I have seen the animal creation
reach to the level of the human family,
and that family under one mystic in
fluence, which we cannot call nature, for
it seems to contradict nature at everv
step: I have seen the steady unfolding
toward intelligence, toward refinement’ '
. toward imagination, whose eves are aw.iv
from organized matter: of ascent and the
law of unfolding at last seems this: To
set the whole of creation upon a march
from the lowest form of unorganized
i matter up through everv variation of
j organization, through every form of pas
sion. still seeking it knows not wha-.
until later ages descry that star that all >
creation is seeking and aroun i whieh it I
lis revolving; and love is that, nnd is th- •!
j final end of creation.— Ue <ru Bur./ I
; AsrAcr.
SELECT SIFTINGS.
Birds are said to leave the vicinity
where cholera prevails.
A novelty at Cumberland, Md-, is »
goose that crows like a rooster.
The pistol was invented in Pistola, in
| Tuscany, by Camillo Vitelli, in the six
' teenth century.
A. man has been discovered in Eng
land, who during the greater part of his
forty-two years, has of choice lived in a
' dark loft over a school upon food pur
' loined from the establishment.
There was an old notion that the ser
pent caused death without pain, a
popular fancy which Shakespeare
has introduced into his "Antony and
Cleopatra.”
Hast thou the pretty worm ot Nilus there.
That kills and pains not.*
Platinum wire can be drawn so fine
that it is no longer visible to the
"naked” eve, and can only be felt. It
can be seen with a magnifying glass
when the wire is held against white
paper. It is used in telescopes and sim
ilar instruments.
A good fat sheep was grazing in a
field near Mount Pleasant, Penn., when
a big bald eagle sw-ooped down upon it
like a lightning boit. It buried its
talons so deep in the sheep's back that it
could not release itself, and the sheep
ran home, when the immense bird was
captured.
The painting of Egypt existed un
changed for a period of more than. 2,000
years, with a stability unequaled in the
other civilizations ot the world . It was,
perhaps, not quite so extensively em
ployed in the ancient kingdom as in the
later times; paintingscan be dated as far
back as the third dynasty (3,818 to 3,124
B. C., according to Lepsius). but they
were restricted to interior decoration.
The walls of the Pyramids were un
adorned by color.
A person struck by lightning does not
know it, the fluid being much quicker
than thought. The nerves which con
vey pain are rather slow in their power
to convey information. Stick a pin in
the tail of an elephant and quite a per
ceptible interval occurs before the noble
animal gives his opinion of the man or
boy at the end of the nervous system on
trial. Lightning does its work before
the victim knows anything. Two men
were struck while taking refuge undec
a tree. Both were carried into the house,
and laid out for dead. One of the men
revived, and after weeks of suffering and
infirmity, he got out again, and is still
living. He said that he knew no more
about having been struck by lightning
than he was conscious of having lived
before the flood. It was all news to
him when told of the fact.
HEALTH HINTS.
Nurses in a sick room should not sit
or stand too near the patient, and above
all things they should avoid talking
when leaning over a sick person.
Freckle cure.—Take two ounces of
iemon juice, or half a drachm of pow
dered borax, and one drachm of sugar;
mix together and let them stand in a
glass bottle for a few days, then rub on
the face occasionally.
Few people Know how to apply a
mustard plaster so as not to blister the
skin. If the mustard be mixed with the
white of an egg, instead of water, the
plaster will draw thoroughly without
blistering lhe most delicate skin.
At a recent meeting of the New York
Odontological society, Dr. E. I'armly
Brown said: “I will venture the asser
tion that the excessive use of common
salt is one of the main factors in the
destruction of human teeth to day.”
Writers in the London Lancet call at
tention to the great value of hot water
applications to the head incases of faint-,
ing or syncope. They say also that a
prompt use of it, applied to the forehead
with cloths, wi 1 very often avert such
attacks.
A Peculiar People.
‘•The nest for godly people,” says the
! Odessa correspondent of the London
j Times, "is the title of a Russian religious
sect which has come into existence dur
, ing the last fifteen years. Its head
j quarters appear to be at the historic
I fortress town of Bender, in the neigh
boring government of Bessarabia, and
its strange name is due to the fact that
its members—all of the peasant class—
; dig a grave in the floor (which is of
: dried earthi of their habitations, or else
I in their gardens, and lie therein until
overcome by hunger, in order, as they
say, to commune with God, to confess to
Him their sins, and examine their past
life. To enable them the better to do
this the grave is covered with a xvooden.
box-like lid or canopy, having a door in
! it for ingress and egress; so that they lie
in the grave as in a coffin, and were it
not for small apertures iu the top part
of it thev would run the risk of being
suffocated. When the grave or ‘nest’ is
in the garden it as thickly surrounded
with bushes for the sake of greater
privacy, and guarded by a savage watch
dog to prevent curious or impertinent
people coming near it. * These sectarians
pretend that in their ecstatic moments,
and when suffering extreme hunger,
they see saints and devils, and some of
them are subject to hallucinations.
Another peculiarity of the members of
this sect is that they hold as little con
versation as possible with other people,
or in fact with each other; s> that the
kind of life which they endeavor to lead
is akin to that of uncloistered monks.”
The Bee Hive.
♦ .* » » * . * *
* Observe * * * s
« $ these busy little t 4
» bees a laying up their » »
« * honey and try to be as *
» wise as these by saving all «
your money. You smoke, say
* five cigars awav and drink,
say six times daily; cards, pool
, and billiards, too. you plav and
treat the feliows gayly. In twenty
years this fun will cost, according to
good scholars, with interest and time
tnat s lost just 820,000. But if you count
your loss of health and self-inflicted
tr üble vo l'll fin 1 this foolish waste of
wealth will figure more than double Then
when it’s time no more to slave but pleas
, ure take, so sick you will feel because you
i didn t save you'll want some one to kick vow
j So imitate these busy bees and all your pen
n:es treasure and then when older take youi
- ease with fortv years of pleasure.
ll. C.Dod'je. in Goodall's Sun.
I X BIRD FANCIER'S STORY.
HT.T.TWn H'W CAXAXT BXB3S AU
TAUGHT TO SISTG
And then Narrating a J"
eldeni ot a t anary Bird thai lie
Derma Pricrle**
“It is very hard to make a canary bird
sing a tune.”said an uptown bird fancier
to "an inquisitive amateur ornithologist,
“very hard, indeed, and ’ Lave only one
tune singing bird in my shop. It takes
a year or so of hard work to tiain a bird
to this state of musical perfection. In
Germany, where most of our. canary
birds come from, there are families that
do nothing else for a livelihood except
train birds in this accomplishment. It
is done in this way: They always have
one bird that can sing a tune, and he is
shut up in a dark room with a young
bird that has already shown some ability
as a singer. After a while the young
bird begins to imitate the other, and
in the course of a couple of months he
can sing the tune very well. Then
he is taken away from his teacher, and a
music box that plays the same tune is
put into the room, and the old bird is
transferred to another room, where he
teaches the same lesson to another young
bird. Only one bird can be taught at a
time, and, "as very often the young bird
is unable to learn a tune at all, you can
form some idea of the difficulties in the
way of the work. Os course this makes
the" birds very expensive. An ordinary
canary bird sells for $3, and some bring
$5, while a bird that sings a tune readily
commands S6O to SSOO, according to the
extent and merits of its accomplish
ments. I have known of a canary that
could sing three tunes, but such birds
are very rare indeed. I never heard of
another. That one belongs to the King
of Bavaria.
“I own a singing bird that can't be
got from me with money,” said the
dealer, as he turned to a cage behind
him. "He only sings one tune, but I
can tell you a remarkable story about
him. My daughter trained him herself
when we lived In Germany six years
ago. She trained him to sing a song of
her own improvisation. Os course it is
much harder for a person to train a bird
than for another bird to be the teacher,
and it took her nearly six months before
the little tellow could sing it through
without making a mistake.”
Here the bird fancier whistled a few
bars of a melody which the bird took up
and finished without a break.
"Well,” continued the dealer, "at
about that time I concluded to come to
America, and leaving my daughter be
hind me—l was a widower —I sailed for
New York. ,Soon after landing I opened
a store in Harlem and sent for my
daughter. By some mishap I failed to
meet her, and the most careful inquiries
threw no light on her whereabouts. I
knew she had sailed, but I couldn’t
learn the name of the steamer or any
thing about her. At last, after search
ing for her until I had spent almost all
the money I had, I gave up in despair.
One day I was walking down Mulberry
street, when 1 heard a street boy whistling
this very air you have just heard the
bird sing. I stopped him. and inquired
where he had heard it. He said that a
young woman in the same tenement
houses where he lived had a bird that
sang it. Need I say more? I had him
lead me there at once, and soon dis
covered that the owner of the bird was
my lost daughter. She was miserably
poor, and xvas making her living scrub
bing offices. She hid come on another
steamer than the one I had intended her
to take, and having lost my address had
not been able to trace me any better
than I had her.”—.Veio York- Sun.
A Romance of the Ball Field.
The marriage of Williamson, the pro
ficient third basemen of the Chicago
nine, says the Chicago News, was a very
romantic and happy one. His wife was
a beautiful New Orleans girl of good ex
traction. The Chicago club was playing
an exhibition game in that city, and
Flint, the catcher, and his wife acci
dentally met the young lady at her hotel.
Mrs. Flint invited her to witness the
game. She had never seen one, and
knew nothing of and cared little for the
pastime, but she consented to go if Mrs.
Flint would promi-e her not to introduce
her to any- baseball people. The prom -
ise was given and the ladies attended the
game. I'he young lady was consider
ably interested in the playing, and
seemed to have her heart set on having
the Chicagos win. The champions,how
ever. xvere getting worsted, and it de
pended on a good batsmen to win the
game for them. They had the final in
nings, and three men on bases would be
left there if the striker failed. William
son came to the bat, and the youag lady
unconsciously arose from her seat in her
excitement.
She took in the situation, and pulling
off her corsage bouquet said to Mrs.
Flint, ‘-if he brings those men in I’ll
throw him these flowers.” Others were
as excited as she. There was not a
sound. Williamson was the only cool
one there. lie got the ball he wanted
and sent it “kiting.” The result was
three tallies by the other men and a
home run himself. Williamson made
that home run straight into the girl's
heart. As he touched the home plate
and sped farther by the momentum of
his run, he came panting underneath
the girl with a bouquet. She raised it
aloft and tossed it at his feet. He
picked it up as the cheers of the specta
tors rent the air, and he bent low in a
bow to bis admirer. Blushing at her
own audacity, she sat down and buried
her face on Mrs. Flint’s shoulder. That
night there was a reception to the club
at the hotel, and she was presented to
the home-runner. They looked into
each other’s eyes, and the umpire Cupid
cried out, "One strike.”
What Scared Him.
Oh. dainty, darling Isabelle,
I loved you fondly, madly, too;
How wildly I can never tell.
Since I can never come to woo.
I vowe l that I would make you mine,
I vowed that I your love would win;
But now no longer do I pine,
I only think what might have been.
Your sylph-like form, your lovely face.
With passion filled my wounded heart.
Made captive by your airy grace—
But now. alas! we two must part!
Fo>- you and I can never mate,
My passion all has died away,
Sin-oe by a hard, relentle-s fate.
J saw you eat or; Ci.. i-t-nas day.
Som?rci'.le Jjumal.