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T It In almost every civilized land on the 8OME FACTS ABOUT BANANAS, globe. Why Red Bananas Have Diaappeared- He was born at Berwick, in Maine, Moderu Phase» of the Trade. and began his travels almost immedi Red bananas are so scarce nowadays THIS IS THEIR DEPARTMENT OF ately by moving across into Great as to be practically a rarity; the pre THE PAPER. Falls. Then be lived at Rochester and vailing banana Is yellow. Twenty later removed to Plymouth, working years and more ago the red was the in the region about Campton aud Hol- Quaint Saying« and Cute Doing« of the prevailing bauaua and the yellow tlie deruess, iu the village now called Ash- rare one. The change from red to yel- Little Folk« Everywhere, Gathered j land. He bad $100 iu cash when he und Printed Here for All Other Lit was 27 years old and iu 1876 started 1 low is due to commercial reasons; the tle Ones to Head. for California. The trip cost $67.50. | yellow is more profitable. The yellow bauaua requires less care His brief stop arnoug the Boers is Men in plenty are to be found that most of interest just now, but he put 1 and time in cultivation, and so costs will forgive wrong, insult and even per iu five years iu Sacramento and there | less in that stage. It sticks to tlie stem sonal violence, but few that ever for abouts, in .Arizona and New Mexico I better than the red banana, aud so \ 1 stands handling better. There are one | ammunition and prepare for the struggle, than twenty-four hours put a period ti give ridicule. To be made a laughing | and was In the rush from Seattle to the stock to others cuts deeper to the quick Skaggett mines, British Columbia. I third mote yellow bananas to ths j T’he retreats which be managed in the his life." 3'he New Y’ork papers did not get the than to be convicted of lying and steal- Then be went to Honolulu and spent I bunch than red. With all these marked following years were almost as inspiring I as the victories he planned. His must be news of hington’s death until Dec. | Ing; just as picking a pocket or robbing eighteen montba iu Hawaii. Ou March ' advantages in its favor the yellow ' a waiting game to a great extent, and 19, and it was four days later when the I a hen roost seems to set one in a more banana has practcally driven the red 21. 1883, he started on bis greatest i bow well he played it history tells, He Boston papers published their first in | contemptible light than raiding a bank, banana out. party of trip by becoming one of the President Adams issued a compelled England to recognize the trou- formation. With this scarcity red bananas now I i Men are mightily given to taking them- twenty-three that purchased tue brig- ble as more than a mere insurrection proclamation advising all citizens to wear 1 selves seriously, and they want to have bring fancy prices; it may be ten times antine Naneeutl, bouud for Siberia. and secured thus the rights of civilized crape on the left arm for thirty days and i Washington's I others take them so. setting iipart. Feb. 22, warfare. Seventeen of the owners sailed, with as much as yellow bananas. With yel- Thence it is that the way in which a four outsiders as ship’s officer«. Most I low bananas at $1 or $1.60, a red bunch How great the odds were against Gen. birthday, as a day when special service« Washington can never be rightly esti- in honor of Washington should be held« man stands ridicule is so searching a of the men wanted to go to South Af would be worth from $6 to $11, and New’ York paid its tribute to the de test of character. Not without reason mated. Tinie and again was bis army rica, but the captain claimed he knew there would be fewer in a bunch. Red I on the point of dissolving away. There parted President on Dec. 31. No carts, has it been said: “Ridicule is the final whereof he talked bad insisted on Sibe- bananas sell nowadays in the fruit were many true hearts in the Congress; carriages or horseback riders were allow- test of truth,” for the truth that has The Siberian trip was a mistake stores as high as 20 cents each. The r.a. but there were many, also, who still lean ed in the streets through which the fun gone through the tire of this martyrdom comparatively few bunches Imported ed a little towards England, fearing that eral procession passed on the way to St. and come out so triumphant as to turn and a failure and the boat was d.s- are taken by dealers In tine alld fancy posed of for cash. the new order of things* would never be Paul's Church, w here Gov. Morris deliv tlie laugh on the laughers themselves successful. T’here was only a half-heart ered the funeral oration and Bishop Sam When the venture was given up Mr. fruits as novelties, the rarity, in large ed support for the commander-in-chief. uel Provost conducted the religious ter- is thenceforth Impregnable. Peavey went to blacksinltuing. and measure, determining the price. 11 Therefore, one of the first lessons a Jealousy inspired officers to scheme vices. his subsequent course covered points might be asked why, with red bananas sensible parent will insist on with his against him. Money was often scarce in Japan, Corea, Hong Kong, Shanghai, at such prices, more are not cultivated; Washington's Last Words. children will be that of courage to and sometimes not to be had. His men Canton, Amoy, Foo Chow and Tslen- to which the answer Is that if more T is impossible at this day io add any w’ere sometimes without food, barefoot Although some statements have been laugh at themselves, and to join merri were raised the price would go down thing of a new character to the ac ed, and half clothed. Through all these made by early biographers of Washing-1 ly in with the laughter of others at their Tslen, In China, Manila in the Philip again, and there would be no profit in pines, Singapore In India, New Guinea, count of men and events of a hundred I trying years Gen. Washington had to ton to the effect that he was bled to death expense. Nothing so takes the non raising them for the general demand, years and more ago, for the field of his rely mainly on himself. His volume of by his attending physician, Dr. Craik, sense out of a child as timely ridicule; New Caledonia, New Hebrides, the Gil in competition with the more econom tory, in so far as it relates to the Ameri I correspondence was enormous. T’housands there was never any foundation for the bert group. FIJIs, the Friendly und So nothing makes him so brave and sensi can revolution mid the men who were j of letters did he write, urging Congress, accusations. ciety Islands, New Zealand, Tasmania, ically produced, more prolific, and bet representative in its accomplishment, has j the governors, the influential men of the Washington was only ill two days, ble as seeing the justice of it, and join Australia, Queensland, Thursday Isl ter shipping yellow bananas. The been well explored and voluminously ex colonies to take this or that step, to having ex post'd bimsglf to the inclemency . ing in with the laugh against himself. ands, New South Wales, Victoria, Cey red banana appears to be now in its pounded by hundreds of men equal to the I raise men or money, to heli» on the work. of the weather on Thursday, Dec. 12 | "Ik that sweareth to bis own hurt and lon, Calcutta, Bombay, nearly every scarcity like some other kinds of com He became violently ill on the following task. Nor is there a school child of 10 I changes not, ” may be a very heroic was the revolution. Almost always paratively rare fruits, or, say, like years in all this country, who has not lie litid perfect control of bis temper, day and expired between 10 and 11 j character; but the boy that has made a country In the Mediterranean, Italy, France, game. Some people prefer the flavor written his essay on these same men ami which was by no me«n« mild, and over o’clock Saturday night, his death being fool of himself, and, without conceit or Germany, Hungary, Spain, of the red banana, some prefer that ot events, so that their history is in-burned ids passions and his positive. aKKressive directly due to a cold in his throat and silly vanity, can see the fool's cap put Sweden and Norway, England, Scot- in the minds of all Americans. Yet this spirit. But sometimes tlie overwhelming Jungs. The room in which Washington land and Ireland. On Sept. 26, sir: the yellow; It is probable that the great on his own head and laugh at himself is one of the hopeful signs of the dispo | injustice of his treatment by Congress died in his Mount Vernon home is one, years ago, he sailed for the old New majority would have no choice; and sition of a great people towards those i must have been a sore temptation to of the most interesting portions of the in the mirror on his own bureau, is a the far lower price at which the yellow Hampshire hills. yet greater hero. who called its nation into existence. And , him. And when he watched the intrepid colonial residence of the first President. “I’ve had my share of travel,” saio banana can be offered to the individual Legion is the number of children that Washington’s last words spoken to Dr. of the leader of all those courageous | Hamilton dash on to victory in the re consumer settles the question. men, the one who before all others car- doubts at Yorktown he must have felt Craik were: “I am just going. Have me have gone to the bad through the fear Mr. Peavey to the reporter, “and I’m Bananas were never before so cheap ried to an astonishing and successful the weight of the heavy burden he was decently buried and do not let my body ; of being laughed at for doing right.— home to stay. On the 17th of last July labors of bearing rise from his great heart so that be put into the vault in less than three Boston Herald. I bought out Tom Hickey, and here 1 ns they have been in very recent years. achievement the herculean bringing victorious a handful of ragged ( it beat the faster, for he knew that days after 1 am dead." shall remain." He failed to find a fair Formerly a luxury that was rather and untrained soldiers through the dark- I should Cornwallis surrender the war A Warning to the Lazy. one anywhere who could remove his costly than otherwise, the banana is C innge of Date. ness of a struggle with one of tlie most would probably result victoriously for the "You lazy, lazy Pussy-cats! Ever since impressions of New Hampshire’s now a cheap luxury; very good ban powerful countries on earth, certainly i American arms. Washington lost eleven days of his life your breakfast daughters, and so it happens, as he anas can now be bought commonly in nothing now needs be said. The same quiet, firm, far-seeing charac- in 1752, when 30 years of age, but he liv- Y’ou haven’t done a single thing but sit says, that he’s still “an old, old bach." the streets in the season at a cent As a young man, Washington was prob there in the sun! "In all my travels," he concluded, apiece, or 10 cents a dozen, such as for ably no less flippant and worldly than I've had to learn my letters—four of them GEORGE WASHINGTON "the Boers were the best people ii. all merly cost two or three times as much. this morning hundreds of others in the colonies. His the w’orld to the Yankee man. and the I I Formerly bananas were brought to this manners, which have been thought extra Japanese a close second.”—Manchester country in sailing vessels, in slick fast ordinary in their courtliness, were prob- ably not the slightest bit more so than (N. II.) Union. schooners which, with any sort of those of the majority of his acquaiut- favoring conditions, made quick trips; a net's, lle waS not free from the faults WHAT THE CHARACTERS MEAN with adverse weather, If long contin of men of his time. lie was accustomed ued, the cargoes rotted. Now bananas Cabalistic Marks on the Inside of to methodical exactness from his experi are brought by steam, in fast steamers Shoes Have u Meaning. ence on his mother's plantation and to her he no doubt owed many of the traits “People often ask me the meaning of built especially for the fruit trade. v hich afterwards stood him in such good the apparently crazy hieroglyphs and These steamers may, of course, be stead. From his school teachers, Wil figures that are stamped on the inner held up by storms; but they are not liam Hobby, who was also the church side of the uppers of ready-made shoes lik»y to be; commonly they land car sexton, and Thomas Williams, he learn nowadays, ” said a shoe dealer the other goes here in a specified time, and in the ed to read and to write as well as to un day. “ As every shoe manufactory has .best aDd most suitable condition for derstand the art of computation. The a secret stamp code of its own, and handling and marketing to the best ad latter of the two also gave him the rudi ments of surveying which served as much there is, therefore, no possibility of the vantage aud with tlie least possible as any other one thing to develop him in general public learning more than tliat waste, aud with advantage r.s to even- to the general of the American forces. such codes exist, I may’ as well tell you ness of supply. The great bulk of tlie For it was on account of his knowledge that the vanity of customers—shall 1 banana trade in this country is now of this science that he spent three of say, of women customers particularly’i controlled by a company which bauaua his years of early manhood in the wilds — is at the bottom of these queer stamp importers have organized. of the forests, running lines, determin ed characters and figures. You’d be The bananas eaten in this country * YOU I. AZ Y Pt.sST CATs.” ing levels, fixing boundaries. His wages surprised to know, for instance, how come from Costa Itlea, British and at this time were sutlleivnt to enable him D and E, and F and G—1 know them to purchase large pieces of that trackless many women there are who imagine Spanish Honduras, Colombia, Jamaica every one. wilderness bordering on streams, which that they wear a No. 3 shoe, when in aud Cuba; that Is, from countries were afterwards of great value, thus de "Do you kn6w what will happen? You reality the size is a couple of figures around the southern part of the Gulf veloping his insight ami shrewdness as a larger. A shoe salesman who under of Mexico aud around the Caribbean all will grow up stupid, business num. But the lesons that Snowflake, Whitey, Puffball!—if you go stands his business can tell precisely Sea. The bulk of the fruit from the learned from that rugged nature in on this way! the number of the shoe a woman cus Gulf countries goes to New Orleans for solitary hours, were priceless, and You won’t be anything but cats, who tomer wears at a glance. But, as often distribution, that from the other coun constitution that was hardened by cannot read a letter; as not, a woman whose foot is a No. 5 tries coming to Atlantic ports. For life in the woods enabled him in after And when I take to writing books, you calls for a couple of sizes smaller, and many years bananas have had a more years to endure unto'u strains of expos won't know what they sayl” ure and suffering, to rescue Braddock af the mysterious stamped hieroglyph or less wide distribution from the ports —St. Nicholas. j. ter that general’s defeat by the French, scheme was devised for the purpose of i of receipt: but they were never before to conceive the crossing of the Delaware A True Story About a Bible. encouraging her in the belief that her so widely distributed, nor sold so on that bleak and cheerless December, There was a little boy who wanted a foot is a couple of sizes smaller than cheaply at interior points, as now. night, to undergo Valley Forge and to Bible very much Indeed—wanted it It really measures in shoe leather. Bananas are now sold, not as rarities, emerge from them all, the modest, self- more than anything else he could thluk “When a woman calls for a No. 3 to but more or less commonly, in all parts contained, reserved gentleman. It was of. But lie was a poor boy, and could fit a No. 5 foot no salesman of this pe because of his knowledge of tin' ways of of the country: practically everywhere; not afford to buy one; for he lived a riod who cares for his job is going to J the forest that lie was sent on that the eastern part of the country being good many years ago wheu Bibles cost tell her that she requires a No. 5. He seemingly needless errand to warn the supplied from Atlantic ports, and the more than they do now. French off English territory in the win simply brings out a shoe of the style ' Mississippi valley and tlie western One day two strange gentlemen came ter of 1753 54, on which he quitted him she wants that he feels confident will to his house and asked his mother for tit her comfortably and lets It go at [ I half from New Orleans. Costa Rica self well and learned his first lessons in practical warfare. The next year he something to eat. Although she had that. A woman rarely thinks to in-1 I bananas are now shipped from New was chosen to go with Braddock on his only plain food, she gave them a wel quire if the shoe is really of the sizo 1 i Orleans over pretty much all the west ern country, to the Pacific coast. ill-fated expedition against the French. ter led him through the years of his life ed a great deal in his time and proba come to what she had. As they ate Here it was that Washington learned for after he had laid down his sword. When bly made them up. The first celebration they saw that the little boy looked sad. she asked for, for she takes it for granted that tlie salesman has given the first tilin', that Americans were of he stepped out of the position of com- of his birthday anniversary of which Indian Scouting They asked him what he wanted, and her what she requested. But when a just as good stuff as Englishmen, that mauder-lu-ehlef of the victorious army, there is record occurred in Richmond, “An artillery officer of our army.” he told them a Bible. His mother said: quietly returned asking no reward, and Ya., on Feb. 11, 1782, old style. It was they could fight just as bravely as the woman does ask that question it is the "Never mind. Don't fret about that. salesman's business to unblushingly re said Representative Cooper to a group seasoned veterans of tin» mother country. to the privacy of his own home, he fore a feast and soul-flow day there and else of listeners about him, recorded by the shadowed tlie character of the nation lie I ’ ll take you to see Gen. Washington where until 17P3, when Feb. 22 was For it was through the efforts of the ply In the affirmative—and I don't Washington Post, “was remarking to had so largely helped to make. It should adopted, according to the new style. next week.” “bush whacking" Virginians that Brad think these little necessary white lies me the other day on the failure of the “But I'(l rather have a Bible than go dock’s force escape»! entire destruction. la» a nation of itself, not dependent on England or any other country under the WASHINGTON'S HEADQUARTERS to see Gen. Washington,” the boy said. are stored up against men in business. British in South Africa to send out The colonists knew better than did Brad The woman customer might examine scouting parties In advance of their It dock that the evolutions of the parade globe for its customs or its policy, One of the gentlemen seemed much ground were of no avail in the sort of was to embody principles hitherto un New Jersey House Made Famous by pleased with this, and told him he the hieroglyphs Inside tlie uppers for troops. He regards that as responsible the Father of Ilia Country. a week with a double-reflecting tele for some of the disastrous skirmishes warfare in which they were at that time heard of in the annals of history. It was Four miles from Princeton, N. J., hoped he would always be as fond of scope without finding out differently, engaged. The physical strain undergone even In the distant future to take upon against the Boers. the Bible. by Washington at this time was extra itself the yoke of a burdened and op stands one of the historic houses of the "I was interested.” added Mr. Cooper, Tlie next day the little boy received a and, even if she had the key to the ordinary. From the ninth to the six pressed people, to free them from their country. It is the Berrian farm house, puzzle, it would only make her feel teenth of that July, he had little sleep, oppression and to give them back their made famous by the fact that it was oc beautiful Bible, and on the fly-leaf was badly, so what would be the use? There “in his statement to me that our Amer ican armies could never have been walking and riding, sometimes all night country with no thought of price or ad cupied by Washington as his headquar- written: “From George Washington.” The little boy did not know It. but he are tricks in all trades but ours.”—Chi- caught so easily in Boer traps. It seems long through the forest, and succeeding vantage. And yet this was a man. eggo Chronicle. had been talking to Gen. Washington in bringing up some support for Brad that our commanding officers follow dock’s retreating army. He was then himself the day before.—Our Little NEWS TRAVELED SLOWLY. practically the same plans for scouting A lleturn Shot. 25 years old. In tlie evurse of that one People. that the Indians have taught them. The A young man and a young woman expedition he had seen enough to give W hm I i I n*foti Wasin the Tomb T wo Days Indians, he tells me, when marching In Before New York Knew It. are leaning over the front gate. They him an unconquerable faith in the valor Rattling Saves Them. hostile country, first send one warrior, and abilities of his fellow colonists. This | Had George Washington lived and died An army surgeon says that the En are lovers. It Is moonlight. He Is loth sometimes on horseback, faith, it may hive l»ern. that so upheld nt the close of the present century in glish and American soldiers are so to leave, as the parting is the last. lit on foot, far ahead. Some occasionally distance be- him through the dark hours of defeat ami stead of the last his death would have hardy because they, more than any oth is about to go away. She Is reluctant hind hint are two or three_______ intrigue, when his army well nigh per- i been known at all four corners of the Indians, and er soldiers [u the world, like to bathe, to see him depart. They swing on the still farther behind a larger body, and iidied from lack of food and clothing. globe inside two or three hour*, whereas and keep themselves strong and hardy gate. WH^hiiiglon had no idea, even when the it was not known that he had passed so on. He regards this method of scout “ I'll never forget you. ” he says, “ and by this means. colonies were being greatly roused over away for several days afterward. Even ing as the finest in the world.” if death should claim me, my last the injustice of their treatment by Eng in Philadelphia, the old capital of the Willing to Do It. Chairman Cooper then described In thought will lie of you. ” land, that the eml would be war. He Unite»! States, where the Sixth Congress “Yon must never put off till to-mor vivid fashion the way Indians observe ” 1'11 be true to you, ” she sobs, •'I'll did not desire w ar. And it was only w hen had just assembled, it was not known row what you can just as well do to never see anybody else or love them as the presence of the enemy. The out there was no other way to decide the that Washington was dead until Dec. 16 day. Freddie.” stretched palm, elevated over the eyes, momentous question of principle that he two days afterward. Then let me finish that pie now, long as I live.” set his heart on hostilities. The cour- ' They parted. Six years later he re without any glance backward. Is the News traveled slowly in those days: WAMKIMOTUg’s llKAOQl ARTKRS, ROCKY mamma.” age of the man in accepting the position cable, telegraph, telephone and postal fa turns. His sweetheart of former yean signal of danger, which the Indians in HILI.. W. J. ♦»f commander-in chief w hich was offered eilitie* were an unknown quantity, and has married. They meet at a party the rear are quick to observe and pass to him by the assembly was sublime. it took days and weeks to transmit Infor- trrs during a part of the revolution, lie TRAVELED THE WORLD AROUND. She has changed greatly: between tbf along till It reaches the marching war 3’he mother country could send hundreds in itio’i then, when* seconds ami minutes Ined there during the time that Con- riors. If the advance rider Is suddenly dances the recognition takes place. New llani|Miliire Blacksmith Who Has of thousands of tramc'd soldiers aga list figure now in this rapid age of invention greas held its session* at Princeton and surprised, he whirls his pony round and tern Life in Every Clime. “ Let me see." she mused, with het the colonists: her ships ruled th»* sea*. ami improvement. hen* Mr*. Washington entertained the round two or three time«, keeping his Blacksmith Peavey must certainly be fan beating a tattoo on her pretty hand On the other ha ml. the colonists were s The Alexandria Times was the first nut a Ides of the land. The house has re face as much as possible toward the “ was it you or your brother who was few thousands, undisciplined in any war newspa|»vr to announce Washington's cently been overhauled by patriotic wom put down as one of the greatest trav foe. and then sudenly dashes away at a farr except that against the Indians, death, printing on Monday, Dec. 16, a en. It contain* many mementos of the elers among residents of Manchester. my old sweetheart?" “Really. I don’t know," he «ays gallop toward the friendly warriors. their resources were comparatively iusig single paragraph obituary, thus: “It is patriot and is visited anuually ify hun A story of his years of travel from That signal, too. Is taken up by those niKcant. It seems as if there could have our painful duty first to announce to our , dreds of persons. land to land and his lite among differ “Probably my father." who are riding in the rear, and quickly l»rrn but one outcome. But Washington country and to the world the death of France, with a population of 38..M8»- ent people would make a geography in modestly undertook the task, refusing Gen. George Washington. This mourn The dressmaker’s apprentice get communicated to the main body, t first any money rrmuuneration for the fill event occurred last Sat unlay evening 000. has a peace strength of 570,000; itself. Ke Is a bachelor, resided at very small na^i-yet she seems to 33V l*ouglas street. In West Manches services he might render. And then bis •boat , 11 o'clock. On the previous night : war strength. 4.600.000. Millions mors make a living. Municipal Ixvdjlng Honaca. sagacity as a commitnkr l»egnn to display he was attached with a violent inflamma could be called out If wanted, bnt. of ter. and lie will be SO years old next Manchester. England, has opened May. He learned bls trade at Ash iraclf. Quietly did he collect stores aud tori affliction in his throat, which m less course, they would be uotraiued. Money talks, bnt a little scare is ay lodging houses under the control of th« laud, In this State, and has worked at to shut It up tight* city to accommodate 360 men. OUR BOYS AND GIRLS. WASHINGTON i FIRST IN AMER ICAN HEARTS. ? H