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WIDOWS SCHEME,
gQURIOUS episode .
■L—m Which Courts as Wall U Bo-
W*Srin«n Ought to Study.
SUGAR FROM BEETS.
■ow She Sapport.d ,IorM1, Wlthowt
forming Any Wark.
.k’T’L?8 * P001, wom“ Uvlng in one
t the little shanties up-town, with a
,amily °f Pto goats, geese and
“MUro“ »warming around It She sup-
porta her family by taking in washing
Mdher poverty and industry have X
tQr I/r
compassion and the
washing of/a number of benevolent la-
e8'
thes* ladles recently
remonstrated with her on the size
of heribills, and said that she had
■ Ak* day8 a*f° * young lady of good
position, and the daughter of
■¡grtspuetablo parente, was arrested
Sj jeweler’s store in Brooklyn for the
of some diamond rings. She
■¡exaniiuing a tray of the costly
Egls when, as she describes it, an un-
Ktrollablo impulse urged her to take
Kgndful and conceal them about her
Kgin. The grief and consternation of
■ parents, when the fact was made
vich more ,or hor washing than
Kga to thorn, is readily conceived, v
J“1® dld au .any
“y of the
th® laundries.
'“oodriee. The
■ay procured her release on bonds, hard-workf------
)ng widow admitted that this
Kthe will have to stand her trial for was the ca
»«, but she respectfully, but
■ crime.
firmly, de< lined to reduce her prick
■„ the same police court where this
“You se >,\na’am," she said, “I do
■tenable girl was arraigned, another the very fit
est handwork, and it wouldn’t
■ng woman was present to answer to pay me to
dpittpr the prioe the laun-
■milar charge. She watched intently dries 'fct IdUnachlne wort If you
■ proceedings which had to do with
oompared my work with theirs you
■ sovice in crime. And just as they would see a great difference. ThosdChi-
K« concluded, she rose and facing
nnmen living in dirt like pigsare taking
Kjudge, said in a voice which cut the
the bread out of honest women's mouths.
■ like a knife:
I don I.seehow any lady can be willing
M>Y ou are going to make a thief out
to send her clothes to them. Of course
■liatgirl!"
t |
they do it cheap when they have no
■he words thrilled through the court families to support and can live on al-
■alike an eldctrio shock. Officers most nothing; but they tear your
■spectators were alike amazed. “I clothos all to pieces, and dear knows
■once like her,” continued the young what you catch fftm them. No, ma’am,
■an, "and my first crime was like you'd l etter pay a little moqp and have
■ I could have been saved then. your clothes done nicely by a clean, re-
Key had let me go, I sjiould never spectabte woman, besides helplng’her
Ke offended again. ButJ)j»y sont me to support her family.”
■prlBon, locked me up ^ith thieves
The lady was influenced by this can
||abandoned wretches, afid lam now did statement, and decided to continue
It I am."
__ _______ her patronage. But a few weeks after
the sensation which this announce- she was surprised to see emerging from
Lt created
was
reported
a Sing Siqg laundry in her neighbor
I intense.
The episode, 1
hood the’ well-known figure of the son
Lr, quickly
passed,
and
of tho poof faff hg^A' laundress, stag
■Unary routine of the court went gering under a huge bundle of clothes.
rarosual.
-The circumstance, how- A dtlrl?'suspicion crossed the mind of
lr, is fruitful of thought to those who the charitable woman; Having a slight
b devoting their lives to the reforma- acquaintance with Sing Sing from a few
n of criminals.
Perhaps this young previous negotiations, she entered the
pnan spoke the truth.
In her case laundry and mado some caqtious inqui
b punishment was the confirmation of ries about tho boy who had just cone
riminal career.
No one will argue out Sing Sing readily acknowledged
it the perpetrator of a first crime that fie came every week with a large
mid invariably be let off without pun- bundle, and it was tojt obvious that the
ment But should the machinery of poor but honest and hardworking laun
tice be always inexorable and impla- dress was doing an easy dnd profitable
ile? Should it never be relaxed? Are business by subletting the washing
re no circumstances when the veil of given by her customers to the_ much
see ebon idbedravm o ver a crime* 'Jbspfaed Chlnaffihh agalnsf*whom slie”
here such a thing as uncontrollable bad warned them so vigorously.—
raise?
Theso are questions Which cago News.
rts and reformers ought to study.—
Paul Qlobt.
NO VERMIN THERE,
PHYSICAL BEAUTY.
How B Lady In Search of a House Myitlfled
a Landlords
Lady—You are sure that the house
w Plain Faces Are Transformed Into
I contains no vermin?
Handsome Ones.
rhero are some men to be met with
0 frankly admit that their wives are
ly, and even, here and (here a wife
o agreos that her husband's judg-
mt is correct But as a rule, Ssvery
in considers his own choice fife best
I where there are fifty minds there
II be fifty ideas of what constitutes
yslcal beauty. We all know and ad-
t that personal charm and mental ac-
nplishments can transform a plain
» into a handsome one, and the lack
them deprive a woman with the
utenance of a Greek statue of the
■uty which at first sight struck the
a It is notorious that the women
er whom men “play the fool” are
ten far from pretty. Not infrequent-
the belle of an Indian station is the
fiieet girl within fifty miles, and the
omen around whom half the men on
■rd a ship on a long voyage flutter,
i very often by no means the beauty of
■ quarter deck. Nina D'Enclos, who
id lovers after she was seventy, does
It seem to have been a great beauty,
lor, if wo are to judge from
sue of the portraits of Mary
I Scotland, was that siren, with
bom, as Lord Beaconsfield used to
B, men fall in love till this day, by
■ means strikingly beautiful. The
Itagerous women” of history have
Hom been beauties. Nature is full
loompensations. The reigning, belle
feta often silly, or, overestimating the
■dnatioi.., of her face, does not take
■ trouble to be amiable. On the
■»hand, the plain woman, knowing
lu ihe is handicapped at the start,
Hi her best to compensate for her 111-
■tndness by attractiveness of man-
B. ud in the end generally wins in
B nee. John Wilkes, who “was the
West man of his day, was in the habit
■tasting that he would give the hand-
fcmt man in England half an hour’s
K* of him and oust him early in the
•>ing- There is, in truth, nd ac-
plng for taste. Dr. Johnson al-
n< spoke of the painted and affected
■“*. old enough to be his mother,
he married in the heyday of his
Bilh as a “pretty creature,” and even
•Gargery, in one of the most dolight-
■ of -Dicken’s novels, was willing to
■»e that Pip’s masculine sister was
■ fine figure of a woman.”— Boston
His Curiosity Fully Satisfied,
House Owner (indignantly and very
emphatically)—Vermin in a house of
mine! Not much!
Lady—Well, I’m glad of that If
there is any thing I do dotest it’is a
house overrun with roaches and—
House Owner—Oh, I won't say there
ain't a few roaches. Most any house is
l iabl e to-have* few-roaches.
Lady—And rats and mice—are there
any of them ?
Houso Owner—Well, there might be
a mouse here and there and a couple of
rats or so, may be, but there ain't none
to hurt
Lady—How about bed-bugs? •*
House Owner—Bed-bugs? Well,
now, of course, bed-bugs is different
Jevver see a house that had been lived
In at all- that didn't have a few?
( Warmly.) Why, the house I live in
myself is chock full of 'em. What I do
say, though, is, that there ain’t no ver
min in no house of mine; no sir, not
none. When do you think you’ll move
in?
Lady—I'm afraid your bouse will not
suit me. Good-day.
House Owner (soliloquizlngly)—Now
I wonder what that woman can find
fault with in this house? After almost
sayin' sho'd take it and my provln' that
there's nothing wrong with it, she don’t
want it That's just like a woman.
They ain’t got no sense, nohow.— Texas
Siftings.
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Mr. Beecher's Estate, a»
Henry Ward Beecher left a compara
tively small fortune. He had an es
tate in the PeekskilJ which cost him
about |150,000. He had insurance pol
icies which footed up something like
|20,000or 125,000, and in hot haste his
heirs sold his pictures and bookB and all
personal belongings endeared to his
frtanda, at all events by many, many
years of cb se association with the dear
old man, and now how does it stand?
The 1150,000 place at Peekskill has
literally gone to seed. Those magnifi
cent flower-beds, on which the old man
eloquent spent years of thought, for
tunes of experience and thousands of
dollars earned by the sweat of his im
perial brow, are choked with weeds
and overrun with grasses. Already
the market price of the place has fallen
to 185,000, and I understand—in Tact, I
have seen it stated in print—that an of
fer of <65,000, which was refused, will,
in all probability never be made again.
Andon the heels of this, with what was
curiously called an "autobiography,
written by one of his sons and his son-
in-law. lying as dead aa Mark Twain's
own books upon the shelve« of the
stores, come a rumor that lus simple
will is also to b» oontestod.— N. r.
■jpnan (on railway train, writing
Ho his wife)—It would afford you
' xmusement, my dear, If you could
freckle-faced, long, lean, gam-
tanked, knock-kneed, sneaking,
rtinent, ill-bred, half-baked specl-
of a back-woods gawky that is
lnt over my shoulder as I .write Letter.
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Ha Was Not An Indian
, ;,
Tramp—Could "you give » bite to a
poor man who hasn’t eaten any thing
Lady of the House (shouting shrilly)
—Tige! Tige! Come here, Tige!
T Ltoftilv)—You are calling your
dpg,' madam. I want you to under
stand that I don't eat dog. I m no In-
^nd he strode away in silent dignity.
—Boston Coi'itr
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“f ‘b* Moat *‘r°aperoM and Ki tensiva
\
of German Industries.
JTJACOBS O]
SCHOOL AND CHURCH. —i
Philadelphia has 67« churches:
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ONCE CURED NO RELAPSE.
The beet-sugar Industry in Germany
I US gFown to large proportions in the
last twenty years, and has been thor-
University, of Providence,
du^Z *y8tematlled- I‘ «as intro-
duced in Hanover in 1864, and sugar is
■ow produced, in qtll the southern por <XW, and Alexander Duncan, of En
tion of Hanover, the larger part of gland, lately added «20,000 to the
Brunswick, the Prussian part of Sax general fund of the institution.
ony, and also in a P40 of the kingdom
Twenty-one schools in Syria which
of Saxony. Perhaps »wo-thirds of all had been closed by order of the Turk
the German beet sugar is raised In ish officials have been reopened. This
these localities, it requires very fer result is to be credited to the efforts of
ule ground to raise the sugar boet, and Mr. Strauss, the American Minister,
bone dust, phosphates, Chilian salt who is a Jew, but was educated at
peter and composts are freely used. Princeton College.
Ihe plant is exceedingly exhausting to
—Bishop Viadimer, of tlte Greek
the soil, and farmers, tom-eserve their Church in America, has the largest
ground, observe strictly the rule ol diocese in the world. It include» alt
rotation in crops, only planting a field of North America to Buenos Ayres in
tn beets once in seven years, as a South America. The Bishop lives in
rule. The planting is done in May Sitka, but spends a good deal of his
The ground is thoroughly prepared time in San Francisco
be’orehand." It is plowed twice in the
Momethlw« New.
•Wl preceding, the first plowing being
to the depth of 4 inches, the second 16 , A
*«T effective thing wbl'sh
or 18 inches. Then just before plant Is taking hold on the market is a valuable
discovery made known through The
ing it is harrowed and rolled untiLit is Charles A. Vogeler Co., Baltimore, Md.,
as smooth and hard as a floor, The proprietors of the renowned SL Jacoba
seed is drilled in rows 1 foot apart Utt, and known as Diamond Vera-Cura,
Dyspepsia, a positive ran for Indiges
When the young planta, aro aboat S I tor
tion and all stomach troubles arising
inches high thef aré thlniíéd out, lèav- therefrom. If not found in the stock of
ing three or four in a hill, 1 foot apart, druggist or dealer, it will be sent by mail
receipt of ZS cents (5 boxes «100) tn
and these are subsequently reduced to on
»1* P>pe. Samples sent on receipt
one in a hill. The cultivation is donp I of two-cent stamp. It has been found on
mostly by plow, the crop being plowed f »Srial to te a specific for sour stomach,
nausea, giddiness, constipa
about four times in a season, both heartburn,
tion, nervousness and low spirits, and it
.engthwise and across the rows. The is spoken of and recommend) d by hun
women and children, meantime, are dreds who have used it and have found
lasting benefits.
constantly going over the field keep
ing out the weods by hand. The gath Tools and sensible men are equally Innocuous.
It Is in the half-fool and half-wise that the dan
ering seasoi'extends from Septembei ' ger
lies.— UoetKe.
K to.February IS. Men go ahead with
Khorkin® AecMeat.
long spades and loosen each hill, the
So read the headlines of many a newspaper
women and children following, who column,
and we peruse with palpitating inter
lift the roots/out of the ground est the details of the catpstropny, and are deep-
Impressed by the sacrafice of human lives
and pile them together.
After I ly
involved. Yet thousands of men and women
the tops are removed they are are falling victims ever* year to that terrible
consumption (scrofula of the lungs),
either taken directly to the commu disease,
and they and their friends' are satisfied to be
lieve the malady incurable. Now, there could
nity factory or covered deeply with be
no greater mistake*. No earthly power, of
earth to preserve them. The factory course, can restore a lung that is entirely wast
ed,
Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery
system is a very interesting part of the will but
rapidly and surely arrest the ravages of
business. Factories are established in consumption, if taken in time. Do not, there
fore, despair, until you have tried this wonder
each neighborhood.” In all the suc ful
remedy. 2____ -__________ —
cessful ones capitalists are rigidly ex
Dissimulation
the only thing that makes
cluded, and only ..farmers may' hold society possible. is Witnout
its amenities the
shares. Each farmer must, for taclv world would be a bear-garden.— Ouida,
share ho holds, cultivate from three’
to five acres in beets. The average
product is 17,000 or 18,000 pounds per
acre, for which the farmer gets about
90 pfennig per 100. He is guaranteed
a sure market for his crop at a fixed
prioe, and gets a dividend out of tjie
profits at the end of the season. The
pulp of the beets, after the sugar is
taken out, makes a first-class food for
cattle, and this thd farmer gets also at
a fixed price. The cultivation is sub-
•ject to inspection by the factory, and I
each inspector must be not only a first-
class farmer, but a chemist He
must live close to the factory, and gets
a good salary. l»-»i<l>-s a per cmrt Of the |
profita Most of the sugar goes to re
fineries at the large cities. At each
factory is also a government inspector,
who examines each lot and fixes the
tax. Each wagon-load of beets is
sampled by a chemist, and if they faH
below a certain grading as to percent!
age pf sugar, they are rejected. ThiB
is to prevent the use of inferior com-1
posts, which would make large beets I
with little sugar in then). One nice T
feature about the business is that on
all the sugar which 4s exported the
government returns to'the farmer an
amount which is more than equivalent
to the tax. This resulte in a very large
portion of the crop being exported.
BRAND
SMALL INDUSTRIES.
The Insignificant Shops In Which the Fa*
mous Sheffield Cutlery Is Made.
The Sheffield cutlery—one of the
glories of England—is not made by ma
chinery; it is chiefly made by hand.
There are at Sheffield a few firms
which manufacture cutlery right
through from the making of steel to
the finishing of tools, and employ
rage-worker», and yet even theso firms
—I am told' by my friend. E. Carpen
ter, who kindly gathered for me infor
mation about the Sheffield trade—let
out some part of the work to the "small
masters.” But by far the greatest
number of the cutlers work in their
homes, with their relatives, or In small
work-shops supplied with wheel power,
which they rent for a few shillings a
week. Immense yards are covered
with buildings, which are sub-divided
into series of small work shops. Sdme
of them cover only a few square yards,
and there I law smiths hammering, all
the day long, blades of knives on a
small anvil, close by the blaze of their
Brea Occasionally the smith may
have one help or two. In the upper
stories scores of small workshops are
supplied with wheel power, and in
each of them three, four, or five work
ers and a “master” fabricate, with the
occasional aid of a few plain ma
chines, every description of tools—
files, saws, blades of knives, razors,
and so on. Grinding and glazing are
done in other email work-shops, and
even steel is cast in a small foundry,
the working staff of which consists
only of five or six men. When walk
ing through these work-shops I easily
imagined myself in a Russian cutlery
village, like Pavlovo or Vorsina. The
Sheffield cutlery has thus maintained
its olden organization, and the fact is
tie mote remarkable ft* the earnings
of the cutlers are very lbw as a rule;
but, even when reduced to a few
shillings a week./he cutler prefers to
vegetate on bi# »mall earnings than to
xo as a waged laborer la a "houwe.’
The spirit of the old trade organize,
tions, which were so much spokes of
flve-and-twenty years ago. is thus still
alive.— Prints Kroiapktn, in A»n*
leenta Ctnhnrg.
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