THURSDAY, MARCH 0, 1905.
THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
I
THE STORY OV WlfftATJ
SHINA SEEMS TO have re em tui
v FIRST CANE CULTIVATOR.
OrltfMllr k Prod! Wm UmpUf
0lr MiUllr-Tfc Art f
ala Wm br a rtiuaalb
0atiT Vallaa.
Ftw other commodities posseia t tar
ter bibliography tbna sugar. Never
UioIom the early history of euftr la
wrapped la obsourttr, Forarl cbem
tela called everything a "eugar" which
luid a sweet taste, but the tons la It
eclentlflc euo soon came to be re
stricted to tho sweet principle la vege
table and animal Juice. Only one of
these, rone sugar, wua known a a pure
ubstanee until Mil), when an ltaltao
chemist UolateU th augur of milk and
proved It Individuality. The original
bubltnt 6f the sugar cane la not known,
but It Mm to have been Oral cultl
V11I11I In China ami to have extended
thence to ludta and Arabia at a coin
paratlvely late date, Auger I not men
tioned by, either Oreclau or ltoman
writer nutll the Ume of Nero, gad tug
r candy wa the Sret u4 only apeclea
known to the European anclenta. It
was the original inauufacture of the
uit, particularly Chlua, and found It
way Into Europe a raw ugnr Old la
after gs by way of India, Arubln
and the Red aea. Hugar when first In-
rrodncod Into every country wai used
inly medtdnnlly. Aim oat all phyet-
uuw. commencing with the Arab
leochee, employed It ortglually to reo-
Amm linnlaauill alul IMtiaMtlnir 1IUm11.
J-lne grateful to the alck and recom
l nndd It In comptalnU of the abeet
I' nd lungs.
f J ftist which prcMTveta applaa aad ptumi
If WUI alao prwMrve llvr aa4 la
if la an old adage. But toe uae of augai
In alrupa and preaervea came later,
while barely three ceuturUaj have
etapaed alnce It bocntn an Ingredient
ta the popular diet of Europe,
The Venetlaua were the father of
the European uar trade. Anterior
t the yenr 11 W they both Imported
coaaldcrable qiututltle of augar from
India and plautad the can la the Island
of fh-iiy. With the produce of thla la
ft laud i.ml the Indian Imports the Ven
' Can carried on a grest trade and sup
f cited all tbe markeU or Europe with
.uls commodity. However, to exact
, idste wheu augur wa llrst Introduced
ttnto England la difficult to ascertain.
I One of the earliest reference to augar
) in England I that of 100)0 pound of
eugar being shipped to London la 1310
by one Lorcduuao, a merchant of
Veutc. to be exchanged for wool. In
the eame year there appears Id tbe ac
counts of the chamberlain, of Scotland
payment at the rate of la. Bftd. per
pound for suimr. Writing In WHO.
Chaucer mentions the sweetness ef
sugar sllejtortrnlljr. '
The art of refining sugar and making
what 1 called loaf augar was Invested
lj a Venetian cltUen toward the end
4f the fifteenth century. Tbla seme
art wa first practiced In England In
1M4, the adventurers being Thorns
Qnrdlner and Kir William Chester, a
suited by three Venetian. They were
proprietor of the only two sugar
house In England, but the profits aris
ing from this coneern were at first
small, as the augar refiner at Ant
werp could supply the London market
cheaper. Eventually war stopped the
Intercourse between Ixmdou and Ant
werp, and these two houses supplied all
England for a space of twenty years
and greatly enriched the proprietors,
whose auccesa Induced many others to
embsrk In the same trade, lu lMHS
Sir Thomas Mlldmay tried to create a
sugar trust On the pretext that frauds
wsre prsctlced In refining sugsr hs pe
titioned Elisabeth to grunt him a li
vens for tbe exclusive right of refln
I&3 sugar for a term of yenra, bnt the
qun refused the request.
Meanwhlfe the Spaniards bud become
In their tarn thu great dlaaemlnators of
the sugsr cultivation. The cane was
planted by them In Madeira In 1420; It
was curried to the West Indies In 150(1,
and It spread over the occupied por
tions of Houth America during tho six
teenth century. Yet augar continued
to be a costly luxury, an article sub
ject to the control of the physician and
confined to the npothecury's shop, till
the Increasing use of tea and coffee In
tho eighteenth century brought It Into
the list of principal food staples.
Sugar was believed to be sn antidote
to alcohol. Bacon warmly supports
tbe theory of tho power of sugar not
only to render wine lens Intoxicating,
being mixed therewith st the time of
drinking It, but also when eaten after
ward to remove the HI effects of too
copious libations of nnmtngled wins.
Falataff, It may be remembered, al
ways took "sack and augar." A cu
rious echo of thla theory cropped up at
the I-aoison murder trial. The pris
oner pleaded that the sugar brought
Into the room to serve as t suitable
vehicle for tbe aconltlne which he In
tended to administer to bis victim waa
really Introduced to counteract tbe In
fluence of aome strong sherry tbey
were drinking. The great Duke of
Beaufort, who -was a heavy drinker,
for forty years before hut death used
TBr B4 BIs
"Tommy. I've talked to yo until
I'm hoarser
"Don't blame ma for all of It, mamma.
Ton know you talked t lot to papa
before h left thla morning I" Tonkers
Statesman.
Oct.
I "He's out good deal nights. Isn't
bet "He was last night I won a
lufundred from him.,,-Clvia4 Plain
FAM OU 8"EWCl.f S VT WELL3
Son Who WaUfs Are Caar4
With Bfaal Mlraealvas Paw.
Though there are hundreds of wells
supposed to piiNfM-N iniiglcal power
scattered all over Umftiind, the general
public Is Iguorunt of their locality or
the romantic stories connected with
each one, There may bo a possible ex
ception In the well of St Keyne, In
Cornwall, for Houtbey has made It fa
mous In a witty little poem. Tbe mag
ic of 1U waters Is such that the hat
band or wife who drinks first from It
after leaving the altar will have the
upper ..hand over the mate for their
joint Uvea. The bride of whom Bouthey
tells ns did not wait till after the mar
rluire ceremony to pay a vUlt to the
well, but took the precaution of taking
a bottle with her to the church.
Another well, In Monmouthshire,
which bat a peculiar fascination for
tho unmarried maidens it known It
the "virtuous well." Vor generatlont
the muldcns of that locality have ac
credited It with marvelous powers In
forecasting their futures. Tbey have
only to drop a pebble Into Its water
and count the resultant bubbles, for
each bubble represent a month of
watting for tbe day which will make
them brides,' In order to propitiate
tho genius which presides over tbe well
It Is necetouiry to decorsta the bram
bles which shads it with bits of wblts
Cloth. i
tTben there are tho so (tilled holy
wells which have tunny mcdlcloal vir
tues Such u one Ih St. Winifred's, at
Holywell, which Is accredited with
cures thst are almost miraculous. Tbe
legend of Its origin bt t very pretty
one. ' It II said that twelve centuries
ego St,Wlnlfred, tbe winsome daugh
ter of a Welhh chief, wa wooed by
Prince Caradoc, a prince of 111 repute.
She declined his persistent advances,
and at last be killed ber In a fit of
race. From the spot on which Bt
Winifred's lireblood fell there gushed
forth a stream of crystal watsr which
hat worked miracle In ber nam for
o many centuries.
rrsctlcfllly ull the 111 to which the
flesh I hel can be cured by 6ne or an
other of these wells. 8t. Ninon's, In
Cornwall, is xuld to restore lunatics to
sanity, but the patient must be Im
mersed In the water aud held there un
til the breath bus nearly left bla body.
This seems s heroic measure. But even
this it not so severo as the treatment
which must be endured If a madman It
(o be cured at Llandegla well. In
Wales, for after the victim It nearly
drowned lie Is ti tinned Ilk a fowl and
laid under tho communion tnble of the
neighboring church for the night
THE CHRYSANTHEMUM.
Tbe first chrysanthemum show waa
held In Norwich, England, In 1S29.
The Philadelphia Horticultural tocb
ty held the first chrysanthemum abow
In the United Ktatc In 1S&1.
Tbe first chrysanthemums brought to
Europe were taken from China by skip-
pom of tbe tea trading ships.
After the chrysanthemum Is potted
leave It for a little time In the shade.
Then give It all the sun that Is possible.
The chrysanthemum was Introduced
Into nngluud -"00 years ago from Chi
na. It was grown first In Holland aft
er Its emigration.
Tbe chrysanthemum hi one of the
easiest of garden tlowers to grow, but
It needs careful tending after It I
brought Into the house In pot when
the frost comes.
The Chans at a Naaaa.
How family nmnes change In tbe
course of ninny years Is Illustrated by
the conversion of "Botevlle" Into
"Thy line." An English deed bearing
date In the clotting days of the fifteenth
century shows three brothers then
flonrtshlug-John Itotevllo of Bote vile
and Thomas and William Botevlle.
The trio are distinguished from all oth
er Botevlles by the explanation "of the
Inne," or family residence, the title to
which had come to their joint posses
sion. John's grandson was known at
Italph Botevlle-of-the-Inne, from which
the transition to Ralph Thymic is easy.
His descendants have been Tbynnet
ever since.
THE FIRST PRINTING.
f the RarlUat BxaiupU at tk
Art PrBrratlTc.
The following are the earliest known
examples of printing two Indulgence,
printed usually on one side only of a
tingle piece. Of vellum and two magnif
icent Qlbles,. Of these one Is known to
be the first complete book that ever
was printed by the wonderful new In
vention, which, as the early printers to
often proudly atate In their colophdn.
produced "letter without the aid of
any tort of pen, whether of quill, of
reed or of metal."
The first piece of printing which Is
actually dated It the famous Indul
gence of Nicholas V. to such as should
contribute money to aid the king of
Cyprus against the Turks. This Indul
gence baa the prluted year date 1454,
and a copy In The Hague museum has
the date "Not. 15" filled In with a pen.
Mr. Duff tells at that "In the yean
14R4 and 1455 there waa a large de
mand for these Indulgences, and seven
editions were Issued. These may be
divided Into two ats, tbe one contain
ing thirty-one lines, tbe other thirty
lines, the first dated example belong
ing to the former."
Thla thirty line edition hi thown to
have been printed by Peter Bchoeffer
d Gernshetm by the fact that tome of
the Initial letters which occur In It ap
pear in another later Indulgence of
1430, which It known to have come
from hit press. Saturday Review.
1 FROLIC IN MEXICO
jREAKINd THE PINATA DURING THE
CHRI8TMA8 FESTIVAL.
Hits MUta PravaklatJ PalM I taa
Oraat tealal aa4 Pa a Maklaar Paa-
' tare at ta Maaea Orassla; aat
Plllla- ta Oil.
Christmas la Mexico la not tfl typ
ical Christmas of cold and snow, and
Ice, bnt on of bright, warm sunshine,
cloudles blue skies, flower la profu
sion, tree In full foliage, and a life of
out of door.
At least a week before Christmas In
the principal streets of Mexico arches
are erected from1 sidewalk to sidewalk,
festooned with wreaths of flowers tad
bunting la the national colorsred,
white and green. Under the srehes
booths are erected, and every toy man
ufactured In Mexico If on sale.
In every' Mexican house greet prep
arations are made for what Is called
tho "plnata." Every child begs and
scrapes and saves the centavos for
weeks and months ahead. Ail kinds of
articles are made especially for thla
ceremony, and every family vie with1
It friend and neighbor to have It
plnata more beautiful and fanciful than
any one else's. - ; - ,
Tbe plnata It really an earthenware
utensil which Is In general use for cook
ing. It It called in common parlance
an olla and la of brown pottery tome
thing like th old fashioned earthen
war crocks used In the north before,
ensmel ware became th fad. '
The plnataa are largo or email, at tbe
inrs of the purchaser penults. Tbey
are round, pot bellied and very large at
tbe top. They are sold from door to
door on the street and la the markets.
Tbey coat only 10, 15 or 20 centavos,
but the olla I tbe least expensive part
of the gam.
Tbe body of tbe olla for a woman 1
covered with tissue paper; then a crin
kled paper dress is fashioned; then a
bodice Is built up draped to represent
a loose white waist, and above this Is
placed a false face. Tbe balr Is mad
with black paper, braided Into one long
plait at tbe back, a tbe women wear
their hair In Mexico. Bometlme a
white tchusna headdresa Is made of th
lace paper used by baktre and confec
tioner. , A flower plnata la decorated with
large paper flowers in every color of
th tain bow. Red, white and green rib
bons, forming long streamers, and sil
ver and gold tinsel, glssa ball and col
ored light all help to make tbe flower
plnata very beautiful. Tbe possibilities
for dressing these plnataa are endless.
In , a large family tbe mother and
daughters bare their own plnata. and
great secrecy la maintained In the dec
oration of the olla. It la th aim of
each to devise at original a dressing
for the plnata as possible, and It can
be made a very extravagant ornament
In tho families of wealthy Mexican
the luxury of the plnata often mounts
Into thousands.
After tbe olla Is decorated to the tatt
It I filled. Th filling consists of pea
nuts, hsscl nuts, hard candles, like
marble, snd all kinds of Mexican
dulces. These dulces ar candled fruits,
nut paste, etc.
Chrlstmaa night the plnata are car
rted In great atate Into tbe aala and
suspended from the celling one at a
time. All tbe relative of tbe family
are present, and as cousins of tbe fifth
snd sixth degree ar recognized and
children are very numerous there la
generally a large gathering. Tbey all
alt very demurely on chairs ranged ta
a row around the walls of the room.
One person Is constituted master of
ceremonies, tbe eldest son or daughter
ef the house. He or she stand In th
middle of tbe room. Near by is a Jar
or umbrella stand filled with' aplsaco
canes or sticks. When everything Is
ready a child or grown person la se
lected and called by name. She comes
forward and Is blindfolded...
men the run Degins. ' tho person
blindfolded is turned round and round
until she loses all knowledge of where
tbe plnata bang. A cane la put In her
bands, and she it told to hit the plnata
and try to break It She It given- three
chances. If she, falls to hit it she alta
down amid laughter. and ridicule. If
she hits It without breaking It she Is
entitled to a small prize.
And ao It goea on, one after another
being called up, blindfolded and given a
cane and three chances to break the
plnata. Fluully one more fortunate
than tbe rest succeeds In giving a hard
enough blow. nud. crash, the plnata
falls to the (.-rounds in hundreds of bits,
and Its contents ore scattered far and
wide. . ' " '
A wild scramble ensues. Every hotly
rtpihes forward to (rather ns much of
the splllcH contents ns possible.
Tbe fortunate breaker of the plnata
gets a handsome prize aud is awarded
the sent of honor. He or she sits down
and Is debarred from another trial at
breaking another plnata. As soon as
the confusion dies down and order Is
somewhat restored another olla la huug
up and the same routine goue through.
So the fun continues until the Inst plna
ta Is broken, and then the prizes are
awarded. . r . .
The plnata party la the great social
and fun making feature of the Christ
mas season. After th plnataa have
been broken and a supper baa been
served there follows dancing, or A trav
eling company of Indiana from the
mountains Is brought In to sing and
dance In native. costume.
Eva Th.
Think twice before you speak, and
even then nine times out of ten the
world won't lose anything If you keep
till. 8omrvllle Journal
TRICKS OF THIEVES.
Clara trhciao That All la th P
avtrailoa af Crlae.
"Thieve resort to clever method In
order to get sway with tbe goods," said
an old police oiHcer, "and I am firmly
convinced that If the criminal of th
world would devote tbe am amount
of time, talent and patience to think
ing out uplifting and advantageous
schemes for humankind they would
In t short while revolutionize the world
la many oteful ways. Bnt somehow
tbe mind of tbe criminal teemt to
be tbaxper, If I may tay U, and bright
er and quicker than the mind of tbe
honest man. The fact may be ex
plained la any number of ways. In
tbe first puce, the criminal bat noth
ing to do but think out some plan
of getting something that doesn't be
long to him. That la hit special busi
ness. Quite naturally the plan be
work out under those circumstance
will often startle even the oldest men
in tbo police departments of the coun
try. Who would have thought of the
wire ssw, a thing so small that It can
bo slipped In between the layers of tbe
shoe sole, but tbe criminal who found
in It a ready, convenient and unfailing
means of escape? He is constantly
thinking up some new scheme. Here
we find a man aud woman in a jewelry
store. Tbe woman carries a parrot with
ber. Tbe bird suddenly get away and
beglna to flutter around In the store.
Tbe Jeweler I afraid the parrot will
break something. lie trie to catch It
and succeeds after a short while. A .
small purchase Is made. Tbe man and
tbe woman leave. Result several hun
dred dollars' worth of Jewelry gone.
It waa stolen during the excitement
over the bird. Good scheme, eh? Yet
It Is but one out of a million worked
by the clever degenerates of th
world." New Orleans Time-Democrat
Ta CVoraat la 9000 B. C.
Mr. Arthur Evans, the Oxford arch
aeologu:. who made so many Interest
ing discoveries In the so called palace
of Minos, In Crete, found in a subter
ranean sanctuary certain very ancient
email earthenware statues, represent
ing some goddess and two of ber serv
ants. Tbe dress of the figures is high
ly modern. The goddess, we grieve to
ay, wear a corset-just such a corset
as contemporary man shyly wondere at
In th window of a department store.
Everybody's.
A Jspaaena Paaallarlty.
"When a Japanese servant Is rebuked
or acolded," says a traveler, "be must
smile like a Cheshire cat The eti
quette in smiles Is very misleading at
first I often used to think that Tail,
my rikiha 'boy.' meant to be imperti
neut when be insisted on smiling when
I was angry at blm. But when he told
me of the death of bis little child with
a bunt of laughter I knew that thla
was only one of the curious detail of
etlquatt In .this topsy turvy land."
Ta Tarker Real JTaata.
The original name of tbe turkey wa
oocoocoo. by which it waa known by
the native Cherokee Indians. It It tap
posed that our pilgrim fathers, roam
big through the woods In search of
game for their first Thanksgiving
spread, heard the oocoocoo calling in
the fuuiillnr tones of our domesticated
fowl, "Turk. turk. turk." These first
Yankee huntsmen, mistaking this
frightened cry of the bird for Its real
song, immediate)- bsbcled It "turkey."
and turkey It Is to this day. Much
more beautiful and musical was the
Indian name o3co.k-3o, the notes pe
culiar to ti e flot-K when sunning them
selves lu perfect content on the river
beeches. Sunset Magazine.
He Tnlt! the Truth.
An Irish geutkcuu had a splendid
looking cow, but she kicked so much
that It tool; ;i very bii;i time and It
was almost Imp i;u'e ta milk her, so
be sent her to a f t be sold and told
bis herdsmau to be suro not to sell heV
without letting tlie buyer know her
faults. lie brought lio:r.e a large price
which be bad got for It. His master
was surprised and said, "Are you sure
you told all about herT' "Bedad, I did.
lr," said the herdsman. "He asked me
whether she was a good milker. 'Be
gorra, sir,' says I, 'it's you'd be tired
milking her." ""Seventy Year of
Irish Life."
Th Dracaa Trae.
The dragon tree (Dracaena draco),
which yields the astringent gum resin
called dragon's blood, is an old aettler
of the Canary Islands. A veritable co
lossus of this family once grew In tbe
town of Orotava, Tenerife, which was
eighty feet in circumference at the
base, hollow Inside, with a stalrcese
for visitors to ascend to the branch
ing top of the truuk. Humboldt re
marks that Its antiquity must have
been greater than that of the pyra
mids. This giant went down In a hurri
cane In 18G7.
Ha Sold' and Ltft.
A lawyer had a horse that always
stopped and refused to cross a certain
bridge leading out of the city. No
whipping, no urging, would induce blm
to cross it so he advertised blm, "To
be aold for no other reason than that
the owner wants to get ont of town."
A Strang Part.
Soubrette Yes, the understudy aaya
h used to have a very strong part on
the stage. Comedian So he did. He
used to be a scene shifter and lift tbe
mountains and castles. Chicago News.
Homa Traits.
"Isn't your husband dyspeptic?"
"I rather think he la. I know he al
ways disagrees with his meals." New
York Times.
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