i
wammiv '. n4
( HOW BESS AND BRANDY
I SAVED THE FRUIT, 1
HT eecma most t big aa a real
river," said Bess, who waa elttlug
on top of the henped-up earth be
. aide the big, new Irrigating ditch, bug
glug ber knees tailor fashion. "If the
water only dldu't roll so awful fast we
could most ride a canoe lu it. eh,
Teddy?" v
Teddy was not at all hnudaome. Ills
hair waa red aud his nose turned up,
and he was much freckled.' -But there
was a great deal of sympathy In hU
greenish eyes a he looked up at his
sister., .; ja.
"You do miss Canada and the lax
and boatlug aud everything, don't ye,
Boss?" he said. "I was such little
feJler when the folks '-asiut weoCna'
1 can't reiueiuber much about It. Byt,
, Reel It must H.v been Jolly fun swim
lulu' In a reol big lake. Ays' p aid u
would take us all back yhot .he fruit
uw wore. .... 1
"Yes," said Hess, staring thoughtful
ly at the yellow, rolling water.' "Hut It
seems au awful long time to wait,
somehow. Last year It was frost and
year before worms, and year before
that the blight, and It does 'seem as
tho' pa would lose most everything he
had before the ranch paid. Aud to
think one good liearlug would make us
rich! Uleh, Ted! Just think!"
Teddy crawled up to the ton of the
bank of earth and looked far down the
valley. He saw long rows of trees,
hardly twice as tall as hlniself. and ho
was only a 10-year-old boy. But the
lender little branches of the trees were
covered thickly with little . green
bunches, and these bunches meant
thousands of bushels ofluarlous fruit.
Hess could remember when she first
saw the trees. They were then only
long llnea of little bare sticks lu the
sandy aud dry-looking earth, and she
cotihLremeniher how her mother broke
down and cried because she was home
sick for the big shady trees and green
grass and hushes at "home."
Idaho did not seem like home. They
lived there six years, and the sixth year
was the "rearing year" for Western
SB FOl'ND a SSIAtr. "CXYIt-lH."
fmlt ranches. Bot, aa Bess said, the
frost aud the worms and the blight bad
kept the fruit back,' and three years
longer they had waited. Aud ' the
father hud grown to look old aud anx
ious and the little mother more anil
more wistful. And they now watched
the green promise of fruit with anxious
eyes. Would anything happen this
year? Or would the rich promise at
last not disappoint them?
"The new ditch helped might!!? this
year," said Bess. "The trees never bore
o heavily. And all the fruit Is perfect
the prunes aud peaches and cherries
and everything. Oh, Teddy, I believe
we will really see Cauada next year!"
She sprung to her feet and threw her
arms around the neck of a little bron
cho that had been nosing at the back
of her head while she talked to Teddy,
6 he kissed the horse's shaggy hend and
bugged blra lovingly. Then she put
ber foot In the stirrup and swung her
self lightly Into the saddle.
"Home, Tcddyl" she cried. "Catch
Boda!"
Soda, another sturdy little broncho,
tapered gleefully around her mate,
Brandy, a few moments, then permit
ted Teddy to mount, and soon the live
ly little hoofs were beating a quick rat-tat-tat
down the white alkali path to
ward the ranch borne, far down the
valley. The sun was bright and the
Iky cloudless, as It hud been for all the
long summer months. The clouds
would sail towards the mountain tops,
but there they would stop and dissolve
over the peaks, where the snow gleam
ed white almost till fall. And no rain
fell In the valley. The alkali dust lay
thick In the alfalfa, the rich grass that
grew so strangely green out of the
bard, dry earth, and the dust lay thick
In the trees and on the prickly cacti and
rrnv sncebrush that erew on the hinelv
foothills.
reckon," said Bess, as the bronchos
loped along side by side. "The grouud
Is awfully dry aud cracking badly."'
"I dunno It's gettiu' perty late," re
plied Teddy. "I heard pa talkln' to the
foreman, and they wuz sayln' that
there wuz signs of frost. The fruit Is
ripenlu' bully, but there may come a
nipper, an' ef they Irrigated It well. It
would mean another year, that's all.'
Bess looked soberly at the baked
looklng earth. -It looked so thirsty, and
the great ditch rolling along beside
' them seemed anxious to turn Its rich
torrent Into the little ditches that ran
like veins up and down between the
trees. ' ,
"Well, 1 suppose It would be risky,"
she said. "But, myl the trees do want
a drink!"
Supper was waiting for them, and
their father called gayly to them as
they galloied up to the door.
"I met Jessie Wright at the store
Doing some trading for her mother, and
she wants yotr to go down the valley
to-morrow and spend the day with
ber," he said, as they sat down to sup
per. "Oh, may I go, mother?" cried Bess,
They were great friends "Jess and
Bess," as they were called by the ranch
and village people and the fruit farm
wound down the valley very close to
the sheep ranch of Jessie's father.
"Why, yes, you may," said Mrs. Har
ris, Bessie's mother. "Did Jessie want
ber to stay all night, John?"
"Of course as usual," replied Mr.
Harris.
"But I guess you can spare her that
Jon, eh, mother ?"
. ft
"No, 1 need you, dearie. Hut you ran
have a long day together and come
home In the eveulng." said Mr. Harris.
So tvext morning Kesa shouted gay
good by a Bramly dance! aronud the
mounting block, nd en whirled tli
Ion thongs of lier quirt merrily around
his ftauk, which Brandy uromplly re
seuunl by biiuglug Ills four little boors
together, rising hi the air, ami coming
down vu his sturdy llttl Ifgs with a
Jar that nearly seut Be out of the
saddle. - I ' '
"Oh. you'll buck, will your' she jtrM,
while the rest cheered Bro4y. "Wlt
till you want (wun sugar. ? '
' Brandy repented sad nirlebed alia
self tut a wlttitiug. tfjia;-irhir lep
that tarried lilia sw.nijr. uwu. i
trail. The air waj sharp auul clesraudl,
fiuglvd .Mirongh bVtc iis, - vblli
the tultl turned WeaeeKf) ry.
VKrost to-ulght, Brandy, h crlr l
to the brourlio, whose ear twitched
back nt the sound of her rolce. Ami
the frtmt came.
The rliis had 1 long, merry day, nd
as the moon rose lu a cWr purple sky
B'sa turned Bramty'a willing mm
bomewaruT Su tttrued up the collar
of her heavy Utile coat ami pulled ou
her buckskin glutei for. the cold wis
already growing itlarp. Aud. eillllng
cheerily to llrnudy, ahe few along Hi
trail toward home, it waa cold .vd
clear aud still, and she rode along 1
little sleepily, w tills Itrandy's hoof
made the only tomul that broke lite
stillness. Hut loou another aouud star
tled her luto wakefulness. 8he bad
renchetl the water gate ou tho big
ditch, aud through the sttllueas came a
low tinkling and gnrgllujj that sounded
like fairy music. Bill the fairy music
sent all the color out of the girl's
check, and with 1 frlehteued cry to
Itiinuly she slipped out of the saddle
and run to the ditch,
Hiitn-ly tueaudered along after ber
with lnxy curiosity and found ber
kuvellu beside the gate with her arms
plunged down luto the cold water. Aud
when she stood un her pretty bright
face had grown till! whiter. For she
had found a small "cave-In near the
gate, and the water waa trickling
through In a steady little stream Dm;
was uteadlly and quickly , growing
larger a the earth broke aud crumbled
and gave way around It. lu a very
short time that rare-ln would send a
volume of water rushing: aud leaping
along all the ditches through theraueb.
aud by mornlng-what?
"Oh, the fruit, the fruit. Brandy!'
Ih-ss sobbed, wildly, "It will be killed
and mother'! heart will brtuakl"
She wrung tier hands mm abe lonksd
dew fl the long road glen ml n jr white. aaA
that. Before, she could go a utile j
ward- help -the much would tie flooded
Snil tli ruin complute. Aicalu '!'
plunged her arm luto the water. ' If she
could only stop hp that ' hotel She
looked on all aides helplessly, and
Hrandy moved closer with a syinpa
thetlc and Inquiring- whinny. Kite
looked at him doitalringly. then sud
denly .sprung forward. In a moment
she was tearing wildly at buckles and
strops, aud then, lo Hrandy'a profound
siu-prlae, she dragged the ln-nvy pg
skin saddle from his back aud rimhed
with It to the ditch. There alio wml
down ou ber kucea aud plunged the
saddle beneath the water. Khe fuuililwl
with it a minute or so, then listened
breathlessly.
The water gurgled and tinkled un
certainly, then slowly, very alowly, II
grew fainter. And soon there was only
a faint whisper aud drip from one or
two tiny waterfalls that allpinnl and
slid down the bonk. The weight of the
water had sucked' the saddle closely
against the earth aud the bole was
stopped.
Bo much. But the night was cold
ber arms) already ached and pained
cruelly, and nlio did uot dure leave the
saddle lest It slip. Would they seiirch
for her? Or would they think she had
stayed all night with Jess? I f she could
only get word home,
Again she looked at Brandy. Then
she called I1I111 to her, slipped the loop
of her quirt from the pommel of the
saddle, nnd, rnlslig her arm out of the
water, she turned Brandy toward home
and then brought down the lawhes with
stinging force on Ills flank.
"Home. Brandy!" she called. And
Brandy, outraged aud Indignant,' kick
ed up bis heels, bucked three times,
then tore down the trail toward home,
resolved to tell Boila that hi young
mistress had gone crajy, '
Fainter and fainter sounded the
hoof-heats along tho trail. , And sooo
slie-eoHLl?;jrJ,thein.jBO lonjser,- Jip!
arms ached cruelly, ami sbai-p , palus
began to shoot through her Dody from
the cold. Now and then she would fake
1... t '.,.-
II tH Ul lua vuv vi me naitri J nijl
them and beat her hands together till
they stung; but only for a moment,
then the saddle had to lie held in -place,
at Inst far down the trail there Hounded
alow, thudding uolse that quickly grew
, , . . in
louder, anu sue sprung to tier rcet win.
a gasping lit tie cheer as four horse
galloped mad y to the ditch Kte, and
all In a minute four men had dragged
ber up from the water, torn off ber wet
jacket and asked twenty questions,
nrsuujr " T
was now galloping back wit Ii leddy,
white and frightened, clluglug to hla
bareback.
The fruit was saved thanks to Be
and Brandy. Ihe frost did very -II t ie
damage that night, and at lat he
yield was rid. and plentiful And the
olkjwlng summer in far-off Canada,
leddy nnd Bess splashed In .the waves
to tier hearts' content, while ."mother'
looked on happily aud Mr. Harris told
old friends all about fruit ranching
" . i
"It was a c ose call," he would say
"hut Bess and Brandy saved the fruit.
If the ditch had burst through that
night and flooded the roots It would
have meant ruin." .
And Bess, fully recovered from the
heavy cold that followed ber little ad
venture, was surprised to find herself
a heroine. Chicago Record. 1
Every one In love has
change his or ber mluuV
rigm
INDUSTRIES OF CUBA.
AGRICULTURAL HISTORY OF TMS
- ISLAND REVIEWED.
Land QwiiNi Fernterly Cuttle Ores
r, Art Now PNocvssful 1'lantera
Frntle and Vfgslablea Are Mm
tuuar Mild Tobaeeu,
Agriculture, which is the main Indus
try of Cuba, bns been glveu thu most
careful alt mtlmi In the I'uiird Mines
census tt'iort, which ha but recently
been Issued. There art several chap
ters lu the bulky volume wiiU-t have
been devoted to the subject of sgrlcul
lure with Interesting aud valuable Je
suits, Special schedules weroprcpnivd
for the taking of census statistic I rum
the plantations, Eveu 10 t ie jreatest
difficult was experienced In procuring
accurate statements, since the majority
of the farms had been ubauduued
throughout the war aud were sHU uu
settled. Travellug over uilh'sj of rough
country the ceusui enumerators found
everywhere devastation nud rulued
houtee, still deserted and uuenred for.
Tending to complicate matters also was
the fttct that ninny of the itantiitioiia
bad been d.vlded luto small patches of
grouud lu order to avoid the taxes
levied even on the smallest subdivision
of grouud at the rate of 13. The ma
Jorlty of the tenants resulting were
but of temrorary rldene and were
able to give almost no Information con
cerulng 11m laud aM Its productive
ness. To arbeduloi whlrb w
milch work returned therefore Are
,,,. ftm, it-eow to the
last V ir there wire In Cuba IKi.lHKI
plaatn ton, f mis, orchards nnd cattle
rangee. wuicu were rniitea at ;t..imsi,,
tXK) new, or about iauo.Otw.WMl. The
only manufactories were those produe-
'mm asm
4Br, 'g9.
CUBAN NATlVta AND VLASTATION EQUlt'MKNT..
Ing cljfara and the sugar mtlla proluc
lug raw eugar, mulnsses and rum.
Catt;Kletng KormerlT Uner'.
In the early days of the Island cattle-
ralshig; waa the principal Industry, ag
riculture being very generally unre
garded. The land wai held In si'al
open ranges, privately owned but un
fenced aud almost unguarded, like one
great wild country. The chief agricul
tural product of Cuba are uow tobacco
aud sugar, with some fruit-raising,
which of late years has depreciated ow
ing to the almost uulversuC fruit grow
ing of California. At present there Is
scarcely more eoBVe raised thaa la re
quired for bout use. although the aott
wd climate of the eastern provlncea
VC particularly adapted to coffrale.
ijlg, uud it. is.ueiiuvsu.tust Uiu Mius
try .wilt agtala be revived. It ' "ko
Vise believed that the growth of fruit
for exiNirtatlon will receive a new allm
olus and that Cuba will rival CallforuU
in the raising of limes, lemons, oranges,
olives, pineapples and many other
fruits" aud vegetables. Oranges will
grow In any part of the Island aud are
unrivaled for their delicacy of flavor
and amount of Juice. Tho largest of
the b'lnnnti farms are In Porto I'rluclpe
and Santiago, from where they were
uhlpped iu large quantities to the L'nl-
AOItlClll.TUHK II CUBA.
ted States before the war. The grow
ing and' preparation of sugnr and to
bacco for the foreign mnrket are the
largest nnd richest of Cuba's Industries.
Statistics for the years from 1S03 to
1K!)0 for the production of sugnr are as
follows: ,
1803 815,81)4 IKIin 225,221
18114 1,054,214 18117..., 212.051
18115 .....1,004,204 1808 8(MJ,(MH)
Tho report coutlues: "We could have
grouud that year more than 1,100,000
tons of sugar bad It not been for the
war."
United Btotrs the Main Mnrket.
Statistics showing the distribution of
the crop for the year 1807 Is ajolr es
timate of nil preceding years. They
lire ai follows: 1 ; ?
.Tons.
.212,051
Crop of 1W7
1 r j :
Kxporledjo theTJnlM gtatcs. . .W-vrmfttjC J"
r'xi,ur,eu 10 "uu.. tt.., p.i
Kxpofted to Ppnln.. , ..1.387
,1'0' c,'aP ,ol ' 8t,0,)0
T(n A240-pounds.
For many year the tobacco trade of
Cuba was a crown monopoly, with a
royal ofHce and warehouse at Uavnna
and branch houses throughout the
' '
In these storehouses the
planters could store their tobacco, re-
iiitirlriv am sill rnlna n a itiliidi lm outnli.
V " nuv-u iuivio uo in lb tii uu laiu u-
Uje
crown for each crop. In
J wng
coniDanlea nnd was
,--:,,, ,, fh- Ma i i7
UK'Mu 1 cow ais,7j V) J "c viunu 1 it a a ww
Finally In 1817 by a roynl decree the
4-inrfa nn1 n1 i I vn Hn nf tnKnrrrt wora
declared free on payment of a tax by
,nnter vttlelt , one.twen.
teth of he pro(luct gnpe tbnt dafe
tho taxes bnve varied, but have usually
high,
The &yeraf(e ,)ro(lut,tlon f tobacc
ta, n 1S04.B wai n t)e Uil hhov.
hMd of 5(M)(000 ba)eg of flf, k or
fl2i00OiOOO oundg of cnf voIned at
?;!2i00OfOOO. of ,,, nnlomu Ileni.Iy 40
nt wn nMae& for home con.
ton aQ(l uged ,Q fhe m(inufacture
Qf dgarg flnd c,BnrettMi and thl, u
about the proportion with normnl crops.
g l Q , , h f
,owg.
lg07' 375,000 180!) ......220.000
181)8 88,000 1000 ...... 400,000
,. ... .,.
United States during thone years Is
thus given:
Pounds.
4,410,073
4,flf)l,45U
8,102,1)74
Value.
12,300,007
4.339,078
0,1)10,300
0,704.331
1807
1808
w lonif ...........
.1000
11,815,431
Except for clgsrs and rlgarett; tV
. . - ... ...,.,... z fcj
numerous roims in wiuen louecm n
used are not manufactured Ik Cuba
Tobacco la raised as an article t. eow
meree In but four of the tit pravlmW I
of t'ulm. I'lnnr dcflllo, llabaua, fantoj
Clara unl Kantingo tie iniua, annogi
there la no uestlou but that It cou!a i
atlvntilngpouMly raised In t lie other two
One or the Industries which l tow
phtrtlca ly dead, hut which waa f u
erly the source of weulili and fan to
the Island, la rolfee rnUIng, It la ons
or the Industries fur which a great fu
ture Is promised, sines It Is known that
fur rlcliuoMN, flavor and the productive
cntmelty of the treei the coffee f Cuda
Is not surpassed by that of a ay ether
West India Inland or by BoUtu America.
It story of (offes rradart'esk
In the year IH43 and MMU vlotaot
hurrlcnuea vMtod Cuba aud aertouajy"' wuteuanana, out mey uops
damaged Ui coffee crop. Owta toljtpJ y ;
these dlaaatem the Increased cbrse'f rouilueut among the membera of the
trade of the Kast Indies and own 1- dred-ear Club are Mra. Klla
America aud the larger and mora w Wilcox, Twoilore Hutro, lr.
lulu protlta of sugar cultivation, tin I CUrletou Simons, Ur,' 11. W. Wiley, V'.
coffee Industry of Cuba rapldljr e. tr ior of the Hulled States pure food
dined aud by 1!C0 the amount eaport-1
en was out -unewsj nrruims. sue coij
fee plnutntloua were converted toother;
uses and tho trade In coffee piacl-ally
dlsnppearwl, The world'e aatlk-'ed
coffee crop of llsK) Is in.2H5.000 Uxa ef
i:H'4 pouude each. Of tbla aaaoutlt
Cuba Is credited with iao.000 bags. Dot
enough for homo consumption. A eou
aiders tlon of those facts 0 j result iu
the revival of tbla ttnporti ut Uniufctr),
which, under fret Instltull 'i!. It la :e
llevsd will ncata Us for i,itier
amoiiii.tho aarleultiiesl ti'.-4
ratsliif Of stock, which ti l t
le cue of the important resource r t u
country, lajio longer of any intpor-tarn.
excessive taxea having drlvtw ioe land
owners Into other branchei sf Jfarfli
production. There are, howtvtr few
sssesz
better countries for alack -rabun thaa
Cuta and future pro.nl.es are bright
for those who again undertake It. '
STRUCK TERROR TO LIONS.
Savage rata War I'ja i-Mrlcsea t
. MlRht of Htraus Wewaak
More animals are lost to the stage
through fcariliau through vU'lousoes.
Ihe show iople dread a timid Ilea,
HAr or iHipnrd uot only because lit Its
paurbJt Is likely to Injure the trainer,
hut btVausv it I unreliable and may
lake' "fright aud spoil a performance at
any moiueul from the slightest nunc".
Aa tuddeat at the I'orte m. Martiu
Theater lo Tarls has beeeme piiri t the
auuals of the show biisSnes. l . fi U f
ti-uoiiv vr,.B ioi(iuuu wai i'fl .v
eecsistlng of the easting of ; y. mug
woniitb, sevurely hound. Intern treot
lions, heralded as being the BoWst hi d
must Uloodthrlsty of liiniieatera. T. f; :
lufortunntcly the woman who bad
the "thinking" part of the victim was
taken lit and a substitute was found lu
the wife of otio of the trainer, herself
a traluer of some experience, but with
out any aciiiilutniiie with these par
ticular six Hons. As she was somewhat
nervous, she carried a small club ready
fur use should occasion arise. Amid the
breathless silence of the spectators, the
ringmaster ex plained the ferocious na
ture of the Uous ami the terrible risk
of tho woman, ami she was thrust In at
the cage door. I u thy excltemeut of thu
occasion tho door was uot securely abut
lifter ber. No sooner was she fairly In
side than tho six nioiiarcbs of the Jun
gle, seeing that a strange person had
been forced upon them, raised a chorus
of shuddering terror, bolted for ttie
cage door, clawed It open and. with
drugging tails and cringing Dunks, fled
out through a rear entrance nnd found
refuge In a cellnr, whence they were
dislodged only after great (lllliculty. It
was a week before the "ferocious man
eaters" were sufficiently recovered
fjoin their terror to reappear In public.
McClure's Magazine, '
A Quaint iHiiidon Custom. '
It Is curious how few pcrsoua have
noticed the ancient and quaint custom
which Is observed every evening dur
ing term In the .walks of the Middle
Templeof sounding the call that war us
members of the Inn that It Is time to
dress for dinner In the boll nt six. The
custom Is as old ns thu Middle Temple
Itself, where It alone exists. "
At about five-thirty p. in, tho warder
on duty emerges from a side door of
the ball wltb.au old fashioned cow
horn, richly orratneoted with sl-er,
and, mmmr-uclng Itt, I'ountrtiu court
blow a sustained blast ou lt,liich
New court. Esse court.
plain livery, returns the bori
butler's pantry. H
' Nobody seems to take nny notice of
the horn blowing except small hoys
nnd ticket porters, who occasionally
chaff the warder while he Is engaged
la his musical efforts.
Why Me Was Blessed.
When the children attending n cor-
tolu school reusscmbled aftcrjthe aum-;
mer holldnya one of the teachers naked 1
her little pupils If they were pleased to
get back to school. j ,1
"Yes," was the almost unnnlmous n-
.... i .
sponse,
Taking the boys
Individually, the
teacher next asked: ;
"Why are you pleased to ge
school?"
j
back to
"Because," answered the
brlsht
youth, "I gets a bit o' rest at sihool. I n,
the'olldnys I Just runs hen Ins ji II dujl"
Some gave one reason, sorno another,, .
but It was reserved to a little tk at the
luittnin , of
the
class to stai tle the
teacher. !
"And now, Johnny," said tlV lady,
kindly, lifting the youngster wit.o ber
knees, "why Is Johnny plensedr
"Mustl tell tho troof?" naked Johnny.
"Of course, Jouuny. Now, lfhy are
you pleased?"
"Because I ain't, so there!" irepllod
the Incorrigible. London Tlt-Bfta.
i
The crying of children In bed; Is one
kind of sheet music.
Jteick court, rump .court, FJnf syv , ' Ir -Tfrn n"".ls
and at the entrance to Crot tim." "WZZTf, " t,"7" B8e I
row. The whole operation laHs abou,1"'' "' ' Xfjp :"rf-',
ten minutes, and when It Is 'over the 'wm tw0 f an,d a hn,f m,n,0
warder, who Is a kind of bm!le In JS- WW; "om the bay each win
LONQ LlfL
.4
I br Mesabere ef New fork's
Munired.fcar Cleb.
T discover the secret of long life
t i bundled piusa oual aud suieu
ill, jien and woiiaa of New Vork Dty
bare orgaulaed what they term the
llacdred Vtar Club. These people be
Have that under present conditions I f
sh;;ld ba prolonged for a century,
T' 7 do uot seek to keep man allv
f rly as an exhibit, but 10 make hi 111
ful member of loclety up to the
u. of hla death.
)bey hava uot pledged Itiemselvei to
li t lu accordance with any particular
f I of rules or to apply the secret of
V vlty to themselves If It he d scov-
f 1. Neither art Ibey vrgeiailaus,
ristlan Bcleutlsis or Italstunltes.
Ipiy do uot pretend to say they w
r-iajr at tue ran exposmonj u.
altb, Albert Turner, Mrs. May Hanks
. 'ey, John ue Wirt Waruer. Dr.
' u H. Hayei, of the United Btates
-lon iluresu, Washington, aud Col.
-1. Volluw, U. ft, A., retired. ; ; '
It. Blmons, chairman of the Commit
yon Statistics, Iras secured the uames
r lv.,. eltlaeua of ,Nt orJ JC"7
M10 a-- ovef Z"X 1
In."i.1-' ly, the fh.b fcza lrtiei
hat lu 147 ti fteic zr t;a estcr;rl
1, lu (J noisy, With lb) ta,!y Creat
1' poiuj tk 3, but To, white Hervts tri
illy (k o.ef 100, 130 aver K& ai
lre rtr ISO. Dr. Hlmona la trying
0 ili, o. r wbetaer these Cgnrea can
attributed to the difference lu the
Ueti of these people. "China Is the only
iktiou, aa .far known to the club, that
eta a premium on old age, granting
pedal honors to persons who are tw
,owr. : '''' ' '
Albert Turner, lu discussing the men
;l phase of longevity, said:
"One of the elements In long life la a
eviction that It la our duty to live;
lamt It Is not right lu Itself, ai'de from
tber motives, for us to shuffle off this
iliortal coll until we have filled out a
g term. It will, I think, be seen that
tin Importance of this Instinctive love
it life caqnot he overestimated In lit
fVlotlon to health, disease aud long
fe.";k".'' ''. . ""
! SUPERSTITIOUS WOMENf
IJker mace a Crest Isl of ConOJence
1st hresM.
It doesu't seem possible that In this
e tttifhtened age suiierstltlon could be
r fa among the educated, hut there are
f i'Vertbelcsui a number of young worn
1 1 who converse fluently, If not elo
t tenth, lu three languages, and w ho
,rra . iro.BM. "wa'H,ir-
4n; " P ,T
" "" "7,." . 7 . .
inn vuu"uu i iu ui uiviuiug vu umi
tl'lng.
; 1Vlth a credulity worth a darky mam
my, W their sleep has been visited with
s usual visions, they seise this volume
a sooa aa their eyes are fairly oMniHl
as4 look for au explanation. If inlsfor
11M la fon'told by It, the seeker after
ksewledg assume a bravado she Is
far fi. feeling.
il don't care," she sayi to herself, by
wiy 6f bolstering np her courage. "I'm
r t r.: i-ift'tlotis anyway, and 1 don't
, UMi ve in i-ftch arrant noiwtmse." But
('' t crv..'f Juat the same, for eon
as iautil othecuwnbles have
fjrliM ouUiksl one out of her
, ' 0 ' ; " '"'-
Mutes ia yonnjf woman known to
U-,Aiir who never dreams of s
yu.iiig child without shivering and
shaking for dayi after, In fear of some
dreadful thing happening to her. She
(ml hot consulted a dreambook on the
subject and so she doesn't know how
In'uuts and had luck became connected
In her mind, but, nevertheless, after
she's had a visitant of this sort while
sloping, she says prayen of unusunl
length and then makes up her mind to
be patient uuder allllctlons sore.
khe'a an Intelligent woman, mind
yiki, but she doesu't attempt to explain
tl;e terror Hint besets her at this par
ticular dream.
She doesn't call herself superstitious
ofconrsa no woman does, not even the
01 e who wou't walk under a ladder, but
lur friends do, aud make light of her
until she exposes some fetich of theirs,
when, the subject Is carefully avoided
afterward, Baltimore News.
A Town Bullion loe.
flab City, Mich., Is the oddest town
In' the country, having no existence ex
cept In winter. It Is situated on Rng
Imw Bay not on the shores but liter
acy on the bny-nnd Is a collection of
bnard shanties built upon the Ice. Iist
SdBsou It contained one thousand
houses.
Fhey art the huts of the men who
d tha winter fishing for pike, pickerel,
lake trout and white ilsli, and ns soon
at) the We forma on the bay theft con
struction la begun. The flshcrmeu live
lo their hots from the time they are
titlt until the breaking up of the Ice
A the iprlng forces them ,, to come
ujhora.' v.;; .
Where la door In each hut, and In
file floor a trap-door soma twenty
Inches souare. When this Is raised a
i do the ai?e stse through Ihe Ice Is
H '' tl,,! f wW he Ice Is
' l"covei . j At tha side of this the
I 'Pwnn '" uu' ? sreat pnrt
t two t'ariiameniary nuns.
, the session of the British Parliament
that recently ended was not particular
tv nrolifle of funny invlngs. but there
flere.a couple of good thjngs uncon
piously laid. The tlrst was by Mr.
Field, M. P. Ha had made a state-
went at which Mr. Ohambcrlnln ahook
bia head, a jsllent negative. Mr. Field
turned to Mr. Chamberlain and pro
claimed: Y
"Tho 1 'Ittpt honorable gentleman
shakes hU head I am sorry to hear
i , .
iTho seconjl waa from an Irishman,
Mr. Flavin, !M. P. He was about to
.put a tpeston to a cabinet minister
'ivheu the right honorable gentleman re-
ndndetl Mr. .Flavin that a letter had
teen sent to(hlin (Mr. F.) asking him
t' postpone the question until such
t'me au the minister could obtain the
Information heeded before an answer!
c uld be given,
; "Yes, sir," replied Mr. Flavin, "that
M so. I have got the letter and have
tiot -had time to open It,"
'ji. , - i Bet In Palestine.
I Under rati aal treatment the average
3; leld of a Uehlve In Palestine Is 100
ouuds.
1 -i. '.L.t: .1,.. ..i ..! v t.J.Ii I.I-
i to the ter. ' ,. ' : '. . " : '
It isn't nectsnary for the average man found the town so crowded that people
j do something desperate to attract at t were walking the streets at night be
ntioD ; . all )e need do Is to go to cause there were not enough places
burcb. I where they could sleep. Within a week
Monsieur banyss, of tha Pasteur In
stltute lu Paris, baa discovered a ml
erobe which breeds pestllsnce among
rata. He baa bad cultures containing
tha rat-destroying bacilli tested on
farms and In warehouses with much
success. In half of tha cases the popu
lation of rata waa completely destroy
ed: lu other cases tha Dumber waa
greatly I educed,
I.lke water, cast Iron contracts on
liquefying, and, conversely, expanda ou
solidifying: hence the solid metal floats
on the molten Ilka Ice on water, it la
this property which rendera certain
metsls aud atloya aultabia for caatlug.
When tha converse la tha ease, aa, for
Instance, with gold and allver,, eharp
caetluga cannot ba produced, and coins,
for example, tnusUberefore be atruck
with dlea. :
lu soma grottoes In Algeria French
ixplorere bava recently discovered
stone Implements mingled with the re
mains of extinct animals belonging to
Quaternary times. Further axplorstlom
Indicate that during the age worn the
grottoes rzri tMiahf" '.firm
,1 LJ a t ' , i ,nt
3 tut of t, . L j aa-
"a l-'lat-1 with C an . 'est bu
O i-ha-uta of Algtrla were the
rhlutiefffia. Mm hlppopotst ihs sod vsrl-
ua awoi of ruuluants. . -
At recent uretleg of tha Academy
of iclences In I'srls. Mr. U. Uonaler
preseuted a note concerning some very
Interesting experiments In grafting
plants, the results of which contradict
ed the geuer.illy accepted opinion that
only plauts betouglug to the aama ho
taulcal family tan be successfully
grafted upoo one another. Mr. Bonnier
showed that recently plants of entirely
llfTercut famlllea had been grafted with
stieeess, for example, the maple upon
the lilac, tha kidney bean upon the cas
tor oil bean aud the cabbage upon the
tomato. I,
In a recent lecture at the Royal In
stitution, Loudon, Sir Audrew Noble
mentioned that in experiment! with
high explosives used lu gnns a eh re
uoscope had been employed which reg
istered the velocity of the projectile at
HI luecesslve points before It left tha
'bore. It waa lHisstble with this ap
paratus to register time to tha millionth
of a second, lu the older experiments,
where the velocity did not exceed 1.500
or 1,0(10 feet per second, .the projectile
recorded its time by knocking down s
series of steel triggers projecting Into
the bore. But with velocities of 2.&00
feet and more per second, the trigger,
Instead of dro.iphg, frequently plowed
a groove lu the projectile, and another
device was necessary, ,
One of the most striking spectacles
revealed by tctcscopea Is that of the
tireat Nebula In Orion. In the com
plexity of Its glowing streams, spirals
tnd strangely shaped masses, Intercept
ed by yawning black gaps and sprin
kled over with stars arranged In sug
gestive groups and lines, It has few rl
tnls In the heavens. The Impression of
astonishment made by the sight of this
uebula Is heightened by knowledge of
Its enormous slse. The entire solar sys
tem would appear as a tiny speck be
tide It Yet this tremendous aggrega
tion of urUuloaa ; rlouda and ' atarri
-warms ban two p.-tel by tb.
searclu-s, of that late I 'ro feasor Keeler
f the U' Observatory to be flylrtg
iway from the earth and tha sun at the
ratwof eleven miles In every second!
Hut so vast la Its dlstauce that 100
years reveal no visual effects of the
(rent nebula's swift retreat. If It were
Jenr by It would seem to become rapid
ly smiillo". ,
THE CAROLINE ISLANDS.
Queer Lcseml of lha Natlrei as to
Their Orlirln.
Oermnny'a purchase of the Caroline
Islands from Mpulu bad already drgwn
public attention to this llttle-kub.vn
Paclllc group, wheu a suggestion was
mude to America which is certainly
entertaining, though nardly to be en
tertalued. The king and bead mau of
Kusale, one of the easternmost of the
Carolines, sent a petition to Congress,
representing that as they had been In
Intercourse with the American people
for forty-seven years that la, with
Amerlrnu missionaries, traders and
whalers-aud had, both In this manner
and otherwise, acquired a knowledge
of our Institutions, they, wished to be
annexed to the United States. It la
assumed that the people who express
ed this amiable preference did not
know that they were about to be ac
quired by Germany. -
The Carollue group Includes, besides
coral Islands, five tnouutalnous Islands
of basaltic formation, beautiful and
fertile with rivers and springs. To
the north are the Ladrone Islands, and
to the west are the Philippines.
Among the many queer legends of
these children of the Pacific there la
none more highly Improbable thaq
their theory ns to the origin of these
Islands nud their Inhabitants. They
think they themselves- were very
strong fn the water-In fact, they lived
la It, The story goes that a woman
and her children were floating around
vUttOiMuefrwAen-a man appewd from
(lie rap wna tin am ui aou on ois
shoulders. He had started out to make
an Island with a mountain on It One
of the children cried out to him, "dive
us little soil to make a place for our
mother to rest, for she Is very weak
and cannot swim." He took out a
handful of. the earth and threw II
down, making an Island. As the mat
was going on bis way over the watet
the son slyly made a bole In the has
ket; so, as he proceeded on hfs way, h(
left a trail of land behind. Suddenly
he became conscious that the basket
seemed light, and looking around he
saw the land. In his anger be turned
about and trod upon It, and thus the
Islands were formed. Harper's Week-
HOW A WOMAN GREW RICH.
She Mala Home-Made notighnnta for
tha Miners of Nome,
Miss Jennie Long of San Francisco
bns returned from a trip to Nome and
la telling that women have agood
chance In the bleak sand stretches of
the frigid North to make money, if
tbey only go about It In a practical
way.
Miss Long went to Nome for a va
cation and to look the land over and
see If she could not gather a little of
the wealth that she had been told
merely awaited the picking up there.
Miss Long says that when she reach
ed the end of her. long Journey she
after bar arrival the bought a test, tad
In a few daya there was a alga bung at
ber door wblcb laformei tbe pissing
miners that "bome-msc't doughnuts"
were for sale wttbla. From aa old cook
book that bad belonged to bar mother
Mlsa Long bad taken a recipe for
southern doughnuts. Tbla aba follow
ed to tba letter, and tba. result waa
tbat aba bad Ave dosen of tbe nicest
little brown cakes that aver gladdened
tba eye of a hungry man, . Kvery one
of tba doughnuts brought tha sum of
28 cents, and In an hour all bad disap
peared. After tbla orders jcaui faster
than they could ba filled. , ,
According to tba practical young lady
traveler, "all a woman needed In Noma
la to bava ber wlta about ber, and aba
ran make money.. 1 wis fortunate
enough to get a position aa copyist for
tha Paclllc Title, Abstract and Trust
Company, composed of tba several mill
ionaire business men of Sesttle, and
through tbla means I waa able to ob
tain quarter Interests In two very rlcb
clalma, one on the Nome river and tbe
other on Newton creek. Tba None riv
er claim will ba worked throughout
tba winter, and "tba Newton creek
claim wilt ha worked when I return In
the aprlng.
"After I bad become Identified with
Claie I set to work to give a series of
entertainments. Tba first I gave waa
la tba Presbyterian Church tent, under
the suspires of tbat denomination, and
it wti tzzf.Tt Vx way tba mlasn
and ri4"la t,r:;J ont
"1 afterward cf a rsc''3l. suited
by sour musicians, lu a halL.aod It
was crowded to the doors. Vaudeville
showi have never been aucetufal 1u
Noma, strange to say." .-. "t f',-ti,
"During tit terrible storms la Sop
tember 1 waa pretty badly frightened.
The night the Skookum wss wrecked I
wss at tbe Pacific Title office building,
and It seemed aa if tbe big vessel was
making strelght for us. She was wash
ed ashore not mora than 100 feet from
where I stood,
"An enterprise Is on foot to start a
company to get tbe vsst tundra tracts
In condition to ba used aa fuel. When
dried it makee fuel equal to tbe best
coal, It la claimed.'
The International Arbitration Court
In New Zealand recently decided that
female and male compositors must be
paid the same wages tor equal work.
The high price of coal has so raised
the price of paper tbat the printers and
editors of Prussia, assembled la con
gress, have resolved to increase the
price of their newspapers, "
Independent glass manufsctVers
who employ union labor s are conXd-
erlnr tbe (1vltll':
of, adopting ,
label by which tL-lr piodueti can benis is wuai is me matter with their
....... t . .'1. . . l ,. .
distinguished from the uon uulon made
article.
In England during the la.i few yean,
It is claimed 14,320 farm laborer have
been displaced by machinery, while the
making of the latter. It hi asserted, re
quired only tba labor of 4,000 men for
one year.
Itt New fork thirty German trades
anin bava united to establish a law
Lewjjjcement bores a In eharge of i psld
j secretary, wanes dty tt will bTto i
vestlgste end push all claluia of mem
bers for unpaid wsges, violations of the
labor-laws, damages for Injuries, etc.
The lithographer! of this country and
Europe would be In sore straits were It
not for the Invention of aluminium, for
the Bavarian atoue, which was used
exclusively until a few years ago for
lithographic purposes, has lately shown
that deterioration In quality which Ii
the surest Indication of an exhaustion
of tbe supply. , ,
The Cleveland Twlat Drill Company
haa placed In Ita beading room for Its
men a box In which may be dropped
suggestions or complaints. In this
way the company gets tbe benefit of
Ideas tbat tta employee may hare on
Improvements or the correction of
abuses. This plan encourages the men
to think for themselves and to give ex
pression to their opinions.
The railroad firemen are complaining
because the mammoth engines that are
now being used are so bard to Ore that
they nearly kill the men who are as
signed to them. These engines, with
the same crews, do a little more than
twice the work that engines did ten
years ago. Some firemen have been
relieved from the severe strain. An ap
paratus for mechanical firing ti being
experimented with on the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad.
The German compositors of this
country have one of the most remark
able organisations In existence. It Ii
known as the German-American Ty
pography, aud although Its member
ship Is only 1,044, It controls every Ger
man dally newspaper In the United
States, except the Chicago Frele
Presse. During tbe last year tbe mem
bers paid 2(!.l)23.40 In dues, or a per
capita of 120.60. The dues are 43 cents
week and IS centa extra for each
death benefit. . ' '
' Can Yob Imitate It?
tit is Impossible to exactly, imitate
(be voles of an animal." . said Blnns,
learnedly. "Some people reckon that
they are very clever Imitations of that
kind, but any one who knows can see
that they are all out."
"Who told you that you were a
Judge?" asked Slma.
Then Blnns got cross and offered to
bet hlra half a sovereign that he could
not execute even a plausible Imitation
of any animal. : "
"Any member of the animal king
dom?" queried Slma.
"Yea," answered Blnns; adding, "1
was going to say 'except a donkey,' but
I remembered that you did that quite
naturally." '
"Done for ten shillings!" exclaimed
Slma.
He went to the middle of the room,
and the others awaited the result, Sinn
stood perfectly quiet for a minute, then
returned to his seat and asked for the
ten shillings.
"What do you call that? That's no
Imitation," cried Blnns.
"Excuse me," obser7ed Sims, polite
ly. "That was a fish!'.
And the others Insisted upon Blnns
parting with the money.
. Are They Married ?
In the village of Dalton Ledale, nea:
Sunderland, England, 800 couples wan!
to know whether they are married ot
not For years they have thought they
were, hut the bishop of Durham de
clares they are not. They say the mat
rimonial knot was tied for a fee, and
If It were not regularly done they as
sert that the bishop ought to havi It
repeated free
HOUSE PLANT PE3T3.
INSXCTf WHICH DESTROY VOUSI
ItOOOft QAROZN.
Threw XmbIm la-it Attach Tasss as4
bmsII Taslr Beaut? i A a, Seal aad
Best aUUrs-roaa llsTtctaai Kaassi
far Their bwlractloa.
Tba arek enemy of tba window gar-
deo Is tha insect pest They spoil a
plant's good looks sud lower Its vital
ity until It either dies outright or cesses
to bloom or tusks active growth. Prob
ably not one woman in-twenty usee
htr plant! through a winter without
having them attacked sooner or later
by insects. Ones ou tba spot and un
molested, they lacrosse like tbe bordes
of Bgypt, eating tbe Waves aud suck
ing tha sap until tbey Quito ruin tha
little garden. - '.'.'.-,
Tba reason buects are worse on
houso plants tbkn in tbe garden is ba
rn us the first are grown juuder high
ly artificial conditions.., .Uvtos-ujs.-'
arc unhealtbfully hot; tbe potted pUuta
are cramped la root and aubject to
water gorge or thirst stsrystlon If tba
watering pot Is In careless bands.
Moreover, the atmosphere la iur-
Lc barged wltb dust and coal smoke.
Ab3"s Insects alwaya attack first
weak or dirty foliage there la a apiT
t fraction' W" them H arery cjuggl.r:g
Tb common bouse insects sre au'ns -
or grew idant louse, the scab aud u.j '-
red spider. The spbla is tha most ( ):n
mou. The usual recommended kuro-
st-ne emulsion will kill them reaiilx
enoagti, hut the trouble Is that at tba
first sprinkle they drop off and fall to
the earth. Here they bide, ready aa
soon as tbe flurry is over to climb op
tbe steins sod go sucking tbe plant's
Julcea again. To avoid tbla lift tba
plant from the shelf wltb great care,
so as uot to Jar or dislodge them. Wrap
a cloth around tbe top of the pot and
eloae to tha plant's sterna, so tbe earth
in tbe pot can neither tumble out nor
tba Insects tumble In. Then quickly
Invert the plant's top Into a pan of
water, and If tbe water la quite warm
so much tha better. Lift tbe plant out
and shake vigorously. Dip again In tba
water, then again ibake and so con
tinue until every tiny louse has been
dislodged. Blnse tbe top well In clean
water and return to the window. If a '
thorough Job bat been done there will
be no more trouble, but tbe plant
ahould be examined again In a couple
of daya and, If need be, the treatment
repeated.
Scale Insects itlckjto the bark or
leaves as though they were glued there.
Dislodge them wltb a wooden tooth
pick, keeping a close lookout for tbem,
and finish by washing tbe plant well
In soapy water. This must be repeated
every few dayi until no more scale can
be found. Tbey are not over common,
hut m ffuw.iillnrlvaliil.tu.rn nui
Red aplder Is almost as common aa -iphls,
but so tiny that few know tbat
plants. When without any apparent
reaispn leaves turn a sickly color or
showBttle yellow specks all over them,
or begrn to curt at the edges, we may -inspect
Sir. Bed 8plder, no bigger than ' -a
grain of red pepper aud camping with
lUic.iiriiaJjc,vi)Jmrentsl gand-
paitu,.,' nmts, uncles aud cousins on
th imA. slfe of the plant's leaves.
To i";t an! um dusty air Is the cause
of '.to red spldte. There Is one sure -st
.!mpR remed;.Mfott, ' saU-cia,' It 1 '
is v ;.tcr. Have i warm aud plenty of
it, and see that the under side of the
leaves get as oiucb wetting as iho"
upper, and this foe Is soon vanquished.'
A plant can be dipped In water as hot
as tbe band can be borne In. and It v,.!
not hurt It in tbe least. If not kept .
longer at a time beneath tbe water than
two or three seconds. That degree of
heat kills tbe red spider quickly. Dip
half a dosen times In the hot water In
quick succession and the work Is done.
Wash all plaat leaves often. A clean
plant la not Inviting to Insects. Kill the '
first foe that makei his appearance and "
you have solved the secret of keeping
house plants free from Insect pests of
all kinds. Washington Star.-. , ' v -
More Saving of Waste. V
A Massachusetts leather, man pro "
dicta an easing down of the price ot
sole leather very soon on account ot
tbe Invention of a down East Yankee.
Sole leather grows on beasts In very
limited quantities and it Is hard to get
enough of It The Invention is to use
leather scraps of all sorts for the man
ufacture of good, serviceable sole leath
er. The scraps are worthless for all
practical purposes and generally rot
in the streets and alleys. But a ma
chine has been devised that tears tbem
Into shreds and makes tbem Into pulp,
which Is run out under great pressure
In continuous sheets of good sole leath
er, , A fall In the price of sole leather
Is predicted as the result of this dis
covery of a way to use the acraps.
Potatoes as Penwipers.
A certain New York hotel uses a
bushel of potatoes a year for penwipers
on the tables In the writing-rooms. Ev
ery morning a large potato Is put In a
comparfment of the pen box, and after
24 hours the potato is removed and an;.
other put In. Pens In peirnold'a'are
stuck Into the potato hal n dosten at &
time, giving : It the appearance of a
porcupine. It is claimed that a potato
penwiper Iff , the beaLi jJresertatlva, .
against rust , and mildew , that can b -secured
for the pens. ; '
Odd Applicant for Office.
- They tell In New York of a wealthy
cltlaen, name not given, who for twelve
years past has been Importuning Pres:
ldents of the United States to appoint
him to office. He assures each occu
pant of the White House that he will
under no circumstances accept. All be
wants la "the privilege of refusing," aa
he wrote to President Harrison, but so
far no chief magistrate has cared to
take him at hls'word.
Why 'Buttons Are on Sleeves.
Frederick the Great liked to see his
soldiers smartly dressed. Many of the
men were In the habit of wiping the
perspiration from their faces with their
coat sleeves, which soiled the sleeves
and gave the coat an untidy appear
ance. To put a stop to this practice
Frederick ordered a row of button
placed on the upper side of each sleeve.
In this manner the habit was broken
up. . ''"'.''' ' " "
At most parties there are -so many
guests that there Is no place to sit
down. ; ' ... ' f .' ' .
The women believe a man should face
every misfortune with cheerfulness, ex
cept the death of bis wife.
When a girl falls in love, she falls
with such a dull, sickening thud tbat
all her friends are shocked.
You can look at some men a mil
away, and tell tbey are uo account,
1 '- i f