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V'' r _ BE KIND TO THYSELF. Comtjs tho message from above? "As thyself, thy neighbor love." "With myself so vexed 1 grow? Of my weakness weary so, Easier may 1 tolorate My neighbor than myself not hurt Take not part of thee for wholo. Thou art nvi^hbor to thy soul: The ray from heaven that gilds the elo?l Love thou, for it comes from Cod. Boar thou with thy human clay l.est thou miss the heaven-sent ray. ?E. S. Martin, in Scribner. MTSSl FDTTT'R TTAftVF.ST. JLUJ.K/IV J-i. VJb J. ?w ? . BY OLIVE K. DANA. Miss FTannah lioitt lived alone ia a wide old house that had sheltered the families of her father and her grandfather before her. Its square, low-ceiled rooms were peopled for her with precious memories and tender associations. J>he would not shut the sunlight unite out of any oi' them, yo that they all retained some plc.isant look a*of oecunaucy. .And the rooms she really lived in were bright, restful,sun hnv, with enough of the old- j time i.uaintucss to give them a peculiar j charm, and sufficient subserviency to i newer fashions and fanciesol adornment to assure you that the owner lived in today rather than ycsteiday. Miss lioitt was mu h esteemed in the little community of Militon as a woman of meaus, of s use, of character, of generous purposes and piacti<es. The farm had dwindled frotn its onec broad area of tillage and meadow and pasture and woodland, to le^s than sixty acres. Yet it was largo enough for her to manage, lor she carried it on herself, with as careful and capable an oversight a-; was cxercjsed by any of her neighbors on their domains. It was the standing wouder of the neighborhood and of the littletowu, "how >1 S3 J hum ah could 'manage' to well." Every spring tde boldniss and magnitude o her ventures astonished them. Every fall the quantity and quality of th2 crop-;she produced therefrom amazed them stdl more. Her beans and corn, her cabbages and cucumbers and onions, her beets ai.d her a<par;?gu<, nodded to I one another from their weedlo-s rows in i triumphant luxuriance. Her berries blushed in exultation. Her little orchaid dropped its rosy and golden fruit gleefully. In truth, it was the gamer ing of her harvests that perplexed Her. She reveled in the long days when she oonid dig and tend and water, and "see the things urow." But when the days grew short, and the first frosts came.and : inc pumpkin vines grew Mack, and the potato tops died, and >he be^an to fear for her tendeier fruit, then despair aud dismay began to fiii her soul. For then her housekeeping tasKS were more oner- j ous, her neighbors could seldom be hired to help, and "help," pioper, was j "scarce." And, although Miss Hoitt j was no scold, and didn't kuow how to j whine, her voice was apt to grow i plaintive as she sometimes related her j anxieties. Hers was a bright and busy life, in all i its lovelinesss: and many a weaker or j less hopeful heart shared its sunshine. She had not a Iwavs expected to live thus lone. ? nee she had looked forward to a fa>- different life. Perhaps it had been j all the harder that her own hand had; put aside her joys. But she couldn't j have done otherwise, she would remind ' herself. There was only she to take care | of the agc;ng father, the i uerulous i grandmother, "the invalid sister?all! gone from her long a^o. And he, Allen j Slaynaid, had his own brave life to live, j She would not let him waste any of it j waitiDg. She had sent h m away, and perhnp she had not told h m very clear- j ly the reason why. Hut she had never | ceased to think of him and pray for him. Over her low threshold, above which j hop viae? grew and morning glories hung from d.iwn till noon th.-ir dewy chalices of purple and crinnon and white, came one late September afternoon her nearest neighbor, and one of her dearest friends, Mrs. Sterne. She was younger by a few jcars than Miss Uoiit, but loved, .trusted, pet ed, even sometimes confided in, by the older woman. * ? "Come in, Lucy! What's the matter, child? Something worries you; and you're tired out, too. Mow just go into the sitting-room and take theensv c hair, and I'll be in in a minute, ,ust as soon as I slip on my other dress."' "You see." she resumed, a little later, coming buck freshly attired, "I've tecu trying to get in my grapes and pears, and some of my apples. I had to begin in season, and keep at it, a little to a time, and l'mwofully behind hand now; and help I can't stem to get, for everybody else is busy, too. Now, l.uey, what troubles you, and what can I do." "I don't like to teli vou, Hannah; you have cares euough, Without our rolling any of ours on to you. Bur .iothiim's 6ister, Km ly. she that married u Swift, is sick with typhoid lover, the real, raging typhoid. They live over to Kaston, you knoA-, aoil there's nobody, hardly, to go. but me and it seems as if I must go ri^ht otf and stay till she's Letter. And there's <>nly Mary Nelson, and she so young and heedless, for all I've had her a year and done my best with her to learn her to keep house, bhe could do well enough for .Jotham and .John, but .Totham's got men a-coming right away? the threshers, and carpenters to do his barn. That can't be put oif. And the new superintendent in the mills, he promised certainly he'd board, I ecauso he u?ed to know him, and it would be handy and homelike." "And you want me to take 'cm?'' queried Miss Hannah. "0 Miss Hannah! we do hate to ask or 2et you. But what can we do? And Jolharn says he'll <;et all your apples and potatoes and thing* in, in good season, and be glud to, and you shall have goo.l pay for the men, if you only think \ou could do it. And you don't know what a relief it would be. You see. we've g??t to take Emily's children home till she's better." "Well, I'll try it, and if nothing happens I <:uess I can carry it through." "How is it, l antiah " went on the other, ' that most lone folks have enough to do to t:ike care of thennelvcH? They think people ought to do for them and look out for 'em, and especially when tney get to miuuie ngc. j^ui it ? ui?uja just the other way with you." "1 don't know,'* returned Miss Hannah, musiugly. "Yes, I do try to help other folks what I can."And I don't see thai I've ever been any worse olf for it. Really, I think it's just that keeps me up and gives me courage to work. It's something to think of and plan for, you know. Now. if I could only do for myself, I shouldn't feci as though 'twin hardly worth while always to, thouph that's something. But when I can do something for some one else, why, it makes me as strong again, and a sight hopcfuller." "I don't doubt it. But now, Hannah, do take care of yourself, and get somebody to come in and help you. We can't let you get worn out yet." Fhe did not look worn out as she flitted about after her visitor had gone, / getting her cosy tea find putting things in Older for the night. Krergy was in every movement of her trim, spare figure, and a kind of hopeful content and courage blended with the kindliness and humor thut illumined the brown eyes. She was adjusting herself mentally to the new turn alfairs had taken, with that ready willinguess characteristic of her. ' I cou-dn't do differently,1' she was saving to herself. "There wasu't but me to do it an>how: and the money wiil be a real help this fall. The house needs something laid out on it, and 1 want to ] send Martha's girls some hing by and by: and now I shall have a liitie more for missions, home and foic'gn, too; and I can get some of those books I've been wanting." And she paused in her i'it: Iiir tn nnfl fro. to look loviniflv at I the already well-stocked shelves of the j missive secretary, and thoughtfully at ! the empty space in the newer bookcase I beside ir. "Yes, I am not so sorry as I m glit be. 'Twill bo quite a piece of work, though, before it's through. However, I guess I can manage." "Quite a piece of work" it proved indeed to be. The threshers came, staid j a week and departed. ( lose upou them j came the carpenter's crew; and just as j they were well settled, came the m st i dreadful of all. Mr. Sterne's friend, the superintendent of the new milU. Miss Hauuah had word that he was coming, and .dr. Sterne drove over with him at supper time. lie was in haste, and ! stopped only to say that his sister was j no better; the fever was having a long ! run. ucv was about worn out, too. ! "And this is the gentleman we spoke of, j Hannah, that you said might stop here a i sped. I think he's an old acquaintance ! of yours." And Mr. Sterne had driven oil before she had had one good look at the man before her. He lifted his lint thea and held out his hand with a smile. "You u.-ed to know me, Miss IToitt. You can't have torgottcn how mauy times we've tru-lged up the hill to school together, and how many time* you d.d my sums aud helpe 1 me out with my parsing, iu the little red school house over yonder. Or, if you've forgotten, I j haven't." "Allcu Yaynard! I had no idea it was i you that was coming! 1 didn't really know who it was, come to think, but I didu't dream it was you!" "iiut you'll take me just the same?" For answer she led the wuv into the house, with pink cheeks, shaking off her confusion as best she could. ? ' 1 rrt.? I me tune nomc was very cuvery. mc slant rays of the setting sun streamed in betweeu the plants in the bay-window and gilded the bindings of her books and made great reflections from the polished andirons. And in the next room was spread the dainty tea-table, with its crimson cloth, its glittering ?rlass, its tempting array, and its vase of flowers in the centre. For Miss Hannah was persuaded that even "those meu" noticed and appreciated her flowers. And the fragrance of freshly-made toa, and the odors of browning biscuits, of I baked apples and other appetizing j scents, were in the air. And it was with pleasure not at all concealed that the new boarder took the seat she assigned him. It chanced to be opposite her own. It was natural that the days should seem to go by faster than crer, now. They vere very short, anyhow, and Miss Hannah was very busy. If any other ele- I ment gave a new, sweet zest to daytime i task and evening talk, she did not own it. i Allen Maynard was still "good and j true and brave and generous." though | his hair was turning gray, and he had ; been many times ac:oss the continent, 1 " n" artmca fV>n aoa nnf'l* f?rP!1 arOUnd ' the world. He had mrny things to tell of people nnd countries and custom9 known to her only through books. And he liked hooks us much as she did, too, and brought some of his own for her to \ | rear], and sometimes new ones that they , : read together. The work on the new barn dragged ' | wearily, though Mis* Hannah hardly I J noticed that October was gone and ! I November was going, till one night she ! heard the mnn say that they should just I ! about get ilone when the ground closed 'up. And Mrs. 8>erne came home; her I j sister was convalescent but she was j well-tiigh prostrated herself with watching. And now the carpenters would go in a j week or two, at most, nnd Miss Hannah | began to realize that the old life would j soon bccrin again for her. and that it | would be lonely. For Mr. Mavnard | must go. too. How should sho let him j i know it? Iler hints fell unheeded, and ! though the men spoke of going home, I and she of being alone once more, she j ! did not see that he noticed. Hut ir was her turn to be surprised a ! litt'e later, when he spoke of his plans j | for the winter, and of business in Easton. ] lie would not be near, then, even to ! drop in of an evening! She be^an to be ' o lnnniv nlrpiulr He had had a i ?? UlV.v J . i bitter position offered him, maybe. And then she heard the men say that Mr. Mavnard was owner in the mills, both at Millton and aston. lie had acted as overseer here becau'c he was needed. ' Some one less capable would do now, for j affair* were running smoothly again, and , I the I'aston mills needed his attention. : j And they said lie had much other propI crty there, besides. i One mild, sunny day?an Indian sumi mer afternoon?he came with a carriage i to take Miss Hannah over to Easton for j a ride. They drove to the mills and j 'around them; then about town. He] ! drove slowly past a large, stately house, i suggestive of gracious uses and gener' ous hospitalities. "I bought the place two or three year3 ago." he said. "I have never rented it. It would make a pleasant home, would 1 I it not? Might it not be our home. Han- ! ' nah? I have kept it for you. I have waited for you. Phall we not have our Indian summer at last?" j 80 the question was asked and an1 swercd, and a new life began, with brighter and warmer and licher joys, and larger opportunities. i The neighbors had "always known - " 1- -i,,. ! IllUC i'l IS* Milllllilll Has , auu uuu ; done bettor than ever this year, loo; but j , they hadn't expected, with all the rest, i I at her time of life, ton, she would ' j be harve<tin' a husband.1'?Portland 1 , Transcript. j A Russian Ilorse Census. I The report of the hara* of the Russsian Empire states that there are 22,000.0( C I | horses in that country, not including : Finland and the Caucasus. In the *ix | State hamt there were last year 224H i horses (SI stallions, 7"i5 mare*, and : 10 >7 foals), and 4^0 horses were sold i from them for 7!\ 407 rubles. There aro ; sixty-two hippodromes in Russia, and ; the * prizes run for amount to 700,??<)C | rubles, of which the State contributed ' 70,00(1 rubles. There were seventyI seven hoiso exhibitions during the year, I and of 11,828 exhibited 2042 were sold. The tolal expenses of the haran amounted | to $.00,000. I - Mistress (after a heavy crash in th? I kitchen below)?"Bridget, I hope you haven't broken that new vaeo I brought home today." Bridget?"No, mem: it's one o' the limmin meringe pies that ye's was abakin' this aftcrn.ua." " WOMAN'S WORLD. ~ PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR, FEMININE READERS. Visiting Card Etiquette. The question of the propriety of turn- 1 iug down the corners of visiting cards1 is debated uow and then; and most per- ] sons, whatever they think of ilie custom, at least regard the trick as a comparatively recent one. In a book of etiquette publi.-hed in thN country about half a century ago the author remarks: 4\ adies have a fashion of pinching 'Inwn cnriifP ri f n rv< I'll tit that the visit is to only one of two parties in a house, and two corners or one side ot the card, when the visit is to both; but this is a transient mode and of dubious respectability." The s'gnificance of turning the corners is different to-day except that the end is doubled to denote that a call is for all this members of a family; but who had supposed the custom to be "of dubious respectability ?Boston Courier. Benjralnse Dianas. A peculiar custom exists among the aboriginal tribes of Jianchi, a group of hamlets in JlCDgnl. It is known as the Era fcendra, or women's hunt. <;n the present occasion the object was to expel the cholera demon, and it is usual when any great calamity ovenakes the land for the women to dress themselves up in men's clothes, arm themselves and go out to hunt, not in the junkies, but in the nearest villages east of them. They chase pigs and fowl?, and everything they kill is theirs. They also levy b!aci<ma,l from the heads ot the villages for the purchase of liquor. The villagers cannot prevent the slaughter or their animals, but the headmen generally compromise matters by giving the huntresses a pig and paying u small sum. Toward evening the hunting party retires to a nei.hbormg stream, wliero they cook and eat the meat and drink the 1 Tt.an out nntllinff ;l f tr>r t hi <! Ill fill I AUjULM. 1 liCJT \.tfcv UUHJiu^ ?.?vvt ?..w ... 7 but bathe and return home. .Men are nflt allowed to accompany them on 6uch occasions, and they conduct themselves lor the time being in a very masterful and masculine manner.?Times, of India. Courtship Amonj; lvafirstan Tribes. A Kafir, having fixed his affections upm some female, acquaints his parents with his intentions. They apply to the gill's parents, and if the latter do not consent to the union a fight is inevitable. If the parties agree, the next proceeding is to appoint two expert female negotiators, who obtain access by strategem to the house with the object of broaching the subject to the young lady. They carefully avoid, says the writer in the I.ewiSton Jou-nnl, any sudden or abrupt mentiou of the awful subject of their mission, but launch out p.aisc3 of the man who seeks her hand. They speak of his possessions, his courage aud accomplishments. The girl, pretending to be affronted at even these remote! hints, grows refractory aud runs away, ( tearing the ringlets of her hair as she i retires. The female ambassadors having got the consent of the parents,drag her from her concealment and carry her by force to the house of her destined husband and there leave her. She is compelled to live here several days, silent and dejected. refusing food, till at last, if kind entreaties do not prevail, she is made to j SUOtU'i oy oiows to iuo uuiun. The Kafir who lias the reputation of j having committed a number of murders ! of Mohammedans envoys exceptional I privileges. He is respected by ull the . ueighnors and experiences little or no difficulties in procuring a wife. The Kafir woman is doomed to a life of toil and drudgery and the husband can discard her whenever he feels so disposed. Ad Antique Quilt. The craze for the antique exists as! strong among those who collect specimens of household work as among their more fashionable brethren who collect bric-a-brac and works of art. In Georgia, according to a local investigation, j there is a quilt worth possessing. It was made by Mrs. Annie Mitchell duriDg the | first year of her married life, in lsuaud | 1SK'?. It required twelve long, weary j months to complete. The cottou of which I this beautiful piece of work was made was I picked by Mrs. Mitchell and her husband, | Kobert Mitchell, during the honeymoon ] of the then newly married couple. After j the cotton was separated from the seed the young wife brought out her little ''spinning jenny"' and as her husband talked or lead to her she transformed the cotton into smooth thread aud carefully spooled it for the work before her. After a sulhc ent quantity had been prepared?and it took many months to accomnlish her task?Mrs. Mitchell brought the old loom llint her mother I had given her iuto service and in a short j time the cloih was ready for the finishing j touches. Turkey red and indigo thread j was then prepared by the dyeing pro-1 cess, the counterpane laid off into beau- | tiful designs and the tedious work of embroidering was commenced. Soon after the work of embroidering was commenced .Mr*. Mitchell was stricken with disease, and for twelve months was not able to set up except a> sho was propped in her bed, but her nimble tingeis were kept busy, aud finally the greatest piece of , artistic needle work of that day was : ready for inspection. ? Chiayo Times. Social Distinctions. In altrost all nations of the world? even iu Oriental countries?women of the lower class do rough or menial work,and are paid money for it, but they are loo\cd down upon accordingly. It: the half-medit val Portugese colony of Fayal the poorest families try to keep one daughter from working in the orangegroves; she lives in-doors, goes shrouded in a deep caj>?te, and never ventures into the streets without her mother, and 11 she earns a living bv embroidery at homo the world does not know it. Even the higher forms of industry amon? ourselves were long held to be soc ally ignoblo. Bookkeeping, clerkship, typewriting, arc still liable to this criticism if pursued by women; and when l.ady Amberley. the daughter-in-law of Karl Russell, was in this country, and desired to meet some women physicians, a lady j in the best society of Philadelphia [ brought on herself some sharp criticism ! Iiy inviting two of this then proscribed j j class to meet her ladyship at a large en- i i tertainment. It must always be remem- j bcred, however, that even in case of men I it has taken long for common sense to prevail against this old-time hierarchy of employments. A century ago I)r. Samuel .lohuson describe.I actors and musicians as "amusing vagabonds," and defined an English merchant as '-a new species of gentleman." To this day it is considered in England a matter of social | discredit to be "in trade," as many American women hare found to their , cost after marrying English merchants. | One of this class cannot yet be presented at court. This seems to us absurd in a j country which owe* so much of its greatness to its commerce, and which has . bcrn called "a nation of shop-keepers;" | but it is no mote^bsurd than the disiiMs 4. tinction still prevailing in one of ouf larger cities, where a wholesale merchant, on however small a scale, is admitted to what is called "society." and a retail dealer, though he may handle millions, is excluded.?Argonaut. Dress of a Japanese Woman. The dress of a Japanese woman of the upper classes begins u ith the yumoji. a rectangular picco of stuff wrapped around the loins and reaching to the j knee, like the towel of a .shampoocr. j ! Over this comcs a beautiful garment : called the aban, a robe like a perfectly l simple bath-gown with square sleeves, ; fitting closely to the body, and generally made of dclicate and pale colored silk : crape. In winter an additional garment 1 called the shitagi goes over this?all the i garment ; of a Japanese woman after the ; tirst petticoat arc i entical in shape and ! fit into one another like a nest of boxes. In summer over the iban cornes tne outer j dress, called for cither man or woman ! the kim :no. This may be made of pretty j cotton stuffs or cotton crape for the I household wear, or of silk crape or silk, or the richest em broidery and brocado for full dress aud ceremonial occasions. It is tied at the waist with a long sash of soft silk ciape, culled the lioso-obi, I wound around several times. Kound j the Werner's wai3t, above this, is worn, j that most striking feature of Japanese | female costume, the obi. This is a piece ; of the thickest silk or brocade about j twelve feet long and th rty inches wide, ! and may cost auvwherc from $> to [ $500. It is the pride of the Japanese ! woman, and a mngniiicent obi is the j Japanese equivalent for the conventional ! diamonds which a lover gives his sweet| heart with us. The tying of au obi is n j very di i cult task, and reveals the taste | and cultivation of the wearer almost as much as the throw of the himation did in I Greece. Indeed, a woman can hardly tie I her obi properly without assistance. Tho [stuff is folded lengthwise, yiving it a ; breadth of about "fifteen inches, then ; wound very tightly twice round the 1 fnMi'fl nrlirn downward. ! thus making a deep and handy i/Ocket j in the fold. One end is measured to the ; left knee and left loose, then the long loose end behind is turned round at a right angle and left fa.I into an enormous bow, then the bottom of this bow is gathered up into a smaller inner bow, the short loose end is turned back upon the end of this, and a flat elastic silk band, callcd the obi-domc, is stretched over this to hold both ends and both bows in place, brought round to the front, and the two ends hooked together in a little gold ornament of some kind. This description is doubtless mini telligible, but the process is difficult ! enough to follow, to say nothing of de* j scribing it. The costume is completed by a pair of tabi, white boots with a ! separate place for the great toe, like Or. Jaeger's digitated stockings, the sole made of thick woven cotton and the tipper part of white silk. Sometimes a chemisette, or han-ycri, of delicately worked or embroidered silk is worn under the kimouo to show a pretty edge round the open neck and to keep the clieit warmer as well.? Was.'iinytoti Star. Fashion Notes. Triple capes are a feature on long redingotes worn as capes. There is a decided tendency to lengthen tne SKirts or wanting ureases. There is quite a revival of the fashion of -wearing morning or breakfast caps. Dress bonnets are nwle quite flat to the head, with light aigrettes set in lace on top. One of the novelties this season is the decoration of ted caps with bunches of violets. Effective evening costumes are of black tulle wrought with yellow straw cmbroidery. Dresses for little girls are made up of bright plaided stuff in combination with plain ones. The Gobelin blue of the present season j is some two shades brighter than that of | a year ago. A revival of Irish poplin is predicted. Indeed, all reppt-d fabrics which diape well arc in vogue. Gray in the daintiest possible tints, is said to be again the rage abroad, both iu fine wools and bilks. Golden olive, the mushroom tints and fawn brown arc popular colors just now with well dressed larlies. The close fittingPriuccss surtout, made of rough surfaced Knglish tweeds, is a favorite traveling cloak for bridys. Tho rhoifpst tailor-made dresses are of smooth Australian broadcloth, trimmed with two shades of soutache in applique. Old fashioned fringes are steadily gaining in popular favor, also the spiked fringes with open passementerie heading-. The liodicc9 of tulle or gauze dresses are almost invariably made of velvet, and draped with the mere transparent material. White and silver gray ostrich feather boa9 arc worn by i'arisiennes at the theatres, and are not thrown aside when the wrap is removed. The fabrics known as empire laces have the small, prim designs of other einp're fabrics; sprigs, laurel leaves and wreaths predominate. This season's tea gowns arc marvels of the dressmaker's art. They are far more elegant than those worn heretofore, and display embroidery in profusion. A choice little afternoon toque in darkgreen velvet has the front part of the velvet embroidered in silken flowers, the natural tints being beautifully reproduced. Many of the reception dresses now seen in the stylish drawing-rooms arc in the odd aud pretty styles of the l-irst Empire; their tloating ribbon sashes arc particularly picturesque. Black underwear, black sheets, pillow slins. and a black coverlet or bed spread are the fads of the moment among New York women of capricious tastes who follow eccentric fashions. For evening wear there are shown fillets of ribbon to put on the hair in (Greek fashion, and this has become a very popular addition to the revival of the pseudo classic styles of the dircctoire. Blue or gray and white tlunnel sailor suits arc excellent schools dresses for girls, even of thirteen or fourteen years, i being neat and serviceable?qualities more desirable at school than costliness. The orange buds and blossoms are not the only llowers chossn for bride's wear this season. The small white bridal roses, tea roses, white lilacs, lilies of the valley, and other white flowers arc given them for garniture. Lace boas arc being worn. A Parisian fancy with fur boas is to attach thorn at the back of the bonnet with which they arc worn, bringing them over the left shoulder, around the throat, and over the same shoulder again. Muffs have not yet made their appearance on the streets, but the dealers in furs are showing them in two size*; one very large and long, to be worn with directoire costumes, and the other extteuiely snial1, for ordinary wear. .. ' ' V-'Eg; "making "sugar. THE INTERESTING FACTS OP A GRKAT INDUSTRY. Juice Extracted Prom Cane on the Plantations?Securing Crude Material?Syrup Cleared and Crystal i/ed. Sugar exists in various forms of vegetable growth, but the gieac producers are sugar cane, sorghum and the beet! root. The United States consumes more j sugar per capita than any other country in the world, J.ouisiaua growing the ! bulk of cane. In 18d7 Lou.siaua produced 151,12',872 pounds of cane s- gar. The same year the United States imported :J, I.jO, 142,2-10 pounds and exported 201,241,167 pounds. The biggest year's product for Louisiana was in ldt>2, when the output reached 029, 321,500 pounds. "Sugar making," said one of the St. I Louis refiners when interrogated by a Globe'Democrat reporter, "is cooking. The first care of the producer is to get all the sugar possible out of the cane, ciihcr by squeezing out the juice or washing out the sugar. The juice is then eleared of its impurities, as co.l'ce is eleared by the white of an egg or water is filtered through charcoal; it is then j boiled, to evaporate as much of the water as possible and crystalize the solid snjjar; it is then cooled and the molasses drained off, leaving the soft dark sugars, in wlii. h ea n crystal lia9 its thin coating of molasses, or dried by a centrifugal machine, as clothes are dried in the whirling drier, whence the water flics out, or further clariticd and left to cry-. stalize in white loaves, wh ch are sawed J or crushed, or ground or powdered into , several varieties of sugar. AIo>>t of these ' earlier processes are performed on the plantations, but in many cases they are repeated and the sugar carried through the final pro;.c*s in itie axcat refineries. 'Refining' is, in fact, little more than a finer repetition of 'making,' and to do these simple things ou a great scale and in the best way in the solo purpose of those enormous beehives of industry." The sugar planter requires for his cane plantation a warm, moist climate, with intervals of hot, dry weather, with little danger from frost: a so.1 not too rich, containing lime and magnesia, and of good drainage; and the benefit of sea bree/.es, salt in the air being better for him than salt in the soil. The sugar plantations of Louisana find these conditions in the alluvial 6oil of the lower Jiiss.ssippi Valley, in laying out an estate, drainage must b;s tarefully provided lor, and in some countries irrigation is much used. >rom one to four cuttings arc set o.it together in holes about two feet apnrt. As the canes grow they must be well weeded and 'Crashed," that i?, all dry,,dead leaves removed. They begin to grow in Louisana in ebruary, aud are harvested from October to January. The juice of the cane make? nbont ninetenths of its weight, and the extraction can be done by soakiugout the sug.iria water or crushing or grinding. Thj latter was the process in early times, aud j some of the pr motive mills are still u>-cd in some of the Southern States. The sugar house on a large plantation is a : big buiiding, usually in the centcrof I th?- lands, with roads or tramways lcadj ing to it from all directions. As the cane is orougnc up uy mu luuma j? carried by endless belts to the crushing mill. This is simple in construction, but j of enormous power. The crushing is I done by gigantic iron rollers, giving immense pressure. The juice runs in one direction and the crushed cane, called "begars," goes another, to be finally j burned in the furnaces. Jrrom the crusher the juice goes to j the strainer, then is heated to about 210 degrees, milk of lirae being added to neutralize the acid in the juice. The | liquid must theu be tempered to correct any excess of lime, after which is it filtered and crystalized. In the old sugar houses these changes are ejected by what they call a "buttery" of open pans or "taches." The clar.lying is done in the first two pans. The other3 are set on a descending line, the last and lowest jbeing the "striking t.iche.1' The juice ds dipped from one pan to another, the heat .ncreusingas the pans get lower and [nearer the tire, until at last the boiling has brou?ftt a crystali/.ing point, aiht six or eight hours' boiling the cooked inass is of a reddish go:d color, and is ready for "striking." This calls for the (expert, as it is the critical moment. He muse "strike1' or dip oil the liquid the cxact instant it is ready to crystulize in the pan. One-half the contents may be iaken out when the rest will have to be left to have new syrup added. ' An imiPiovcment on this plan is the using of the vacuum pan, in which boiling is possible at a lower temperature than in the open pan, making the danger of "burning or overheating very slight. After being crystali/ed the sugar is packed iu barrels and hogsheads and sent to St. Louis and other re^nenes. "When reaching the refinery the crude sugar is dumped iuto huge vats for a "blow-up." The vats or tanks aie of iron lined with a sieam coil and with Tcvolvin" arms to stir the contents. Water is run in and heated nearly to .boiiing,when some ten tons of rawsugar will be thrown in. ljuring half an hour's Iboiling the impurities rising are skimmed olf. The syrup is then pumped to the top of the re.inery, and starts downward in slow stages, being clcar sugar when ut the bottom. The top i oor is the defecating department. Jlcrc are rows of square tauks six feet high, filled with the liquid forced r f r.l Up II UII1 IUU ill AUld at i i 1/ i ci/O terapcratarc. The process here is exac:Jy like clearing coii'ce with the wh te of au egg, except that bullock's blood acts as the albuminous matter iu clearing out the diegs and sediments, in half an hour the liquid is well elenred and is drawn off to be strained. The ne t lloor below is covered with a series of gutters, under which hang the bair filters, consisting of coarse cotton twi.1 four or live feet long and a few inches around. The liquid from the defecator runs down the gutters and into and through the bags, and thence into tanks. <t is now a bright but brown-colored syrup, in which aic still some impurities in a soluble form, that are got rid of by liltering through charcoal. The filter is on the principle of one used to clear drinking water, but is a maslodoiiic alTair, twenty feet deep and one-half as wide. The animal charcoal (ailed bone blark has peculiar properties no one understand*. It clears the syrup of all impurities held in solulion, as well as all false color. A large refinery will have 000 or more of these filters that have a large "mauholc"' at the top, and hold from twenty-live to forty tons of bone black. The syrup from the tanks above is run into the filters, and, after stauding seven or eight hours, is drawn off. At the first the syrup is crystal clear, and i9 discharged into the tank from which the wh test and highest grade of sugar is made. As the power of tbe bone black j is exhausted the syrup takes on a straw , tinge that grows to amber. As,the colors 1 I change thfc flow is directed into diller- . I v ' . ; ;; '< ' ent tanks, thus separating different grades of sugar. One charge of bone black will run out in about twenty hours. Any sugar remaining is washed out with a stream nf running water, and the bone black is renewed l?y reburning. To filter one ton of sugar takes about the same quantity of bone black. The liquid sugar is now refined. It remains to crvstalize it. This is accomplished in the vacuum pan. This is u very large coppi r boiler with an air tight cover. When the sugar has boiled long enough it is let out into a receptacle. i oi loaf sugar it is run into molds as it cools. After standing several days the molds arc turned over and the brilliant white cone, called the sugar loaf, is drop cd out. It is not seen as much -- -- r-'~ -i i ? t J~ as in lorrnur u;i_y I, uui il ia niauc juou iuc same, beingsawed up to make the square lumps, regarded as the nicest thing ia the market. Pulverized sugar ia the dust from other kind3 and granulated is mostly the product of centrifugal machines that throw oif the crystaliziug ma s into grains. The machine is one drum wir.hin another. The inner is pierced with fine holes and revolves with lightning rapidity. The syrup is let in, and as it whins it changes from dark 10 light brown, then yellow and suddenly becomes snow white. This is because the speed 01 the drum turns off all the free coloring liquid, leaving only the white, solid crystals. The barreling of sugar is a curious operation, l.ach barrel siands on asinall lrame that is so moved l?y machinery that the baricl is given aa irregular motion, the sugar being settled almost solid by the bobbing aud nodding as it pours s.owly in lrom a spout. Soft sugars cannot be packed in such a way, but are packed with a press idee Hour, A Bold Whaler in the Far North. During tho past season the steam wh tiers in the Arctic ha c visited a por * ? 4a iK.i oocf-W--1 I UU <>1 IUC UCBilU ?"?? of Point barrow. Thi3 is the first time sinco 15>5;> that any vessels have been able to jro so far through the ice. Since the time that nshiug for bowhead whales has been the occupation of whalemen in the Arctic oiean the masters have endeavored to follow the big fish that are supposed to run along the northeast shores of the American continent, rarely going, however, beyond the Ketum reef. This past season the veteran whaleman, Captain Bauldry, in the steamer urea, reached a point hut fifty miles from Hershcl Island, near the mouth of the Mackenzie Hiver. He obtained but one whale, and he states that there was considerable difficulty in catching the fish owing to heavy drift ice. Captain Bauldry says that he and the other Captains met natives from Hcrschel Island and points to the eastward of the Mac kenzie Kiver. Their facial appearance is said to be similar to that of the Is'orth American Indians while their language U almost identical with that of the Greenland aborigi cs. They were very reluctant to visit the steamers, and expressed greatsurprise at the machinery and other gear, stating that they had heard of the "big canoes" but had never seen one. The shore of the ocean islioed * * * * ~ C QAmO witn immense puua ui uiuvn of tlic logs being very lar?e in size. It was stated by the -natives that the driftwood is brought down to the sea in the spring by the Mackenzie Hirer, and it is then carried by the current to the we tward. l or some time past the whalemen have been told by natives that quantities of whalebone could be procured at Herschel Island, but as they never reached that po nt the story is doubted. This year,however,a venturesome boat stcerer has gone with a party of natives in a whale joat to visit the island and as far eastward as he can get. The result of his journey will be known to the -whalemen in August next, when they arrive at Point Barrow, aud it is safe to state if whales or whale one are to Lo bad at Herschel Island that a vessel will endeavor to reach that point.?San Francis, o Chronicle. | Vitality of Snails. ; Nothing is more remarkable than the vitality ot some species of snails. Pondsnails have been frequently found alive in logs of mahogany from Honduras,and specimens belonging to the col.ection of a gentleman in Dublin,after having been dried for a period of liftecn years, nevertheless rcvi?ed when placed in water. We are told that W'.>rkmon employed in the construction of the Eric Canal,in the State of -New York, found several hundred live mollusks ac a depth of forty feet. Professor Morse records that he had seen certain species fro/en in sol d block* of ice, which have afterward regained their activity. Madeira snails, imprisoued closely in pill boxes ior two years and a half, have nevertheless survived; and a desert sna:l from l'gypt lived to a tablet iu the British Museum, lioth of A.ar. h, 1 .4f;, l>e ng immersed in tepid water, marvelously but completely recovered after an interval of lour years. The vitality of snails' egrs likewise passes belief. Kven if desiccated in a furnace until reduced to a minuteness barely visible, they will always regain their original bulk when damped, and the young will be brought forth as successfully as though the eggs had never been interfered with. Nor has cold any injurious effect upon fchem. for they may be frozen into ice any length of time, and yet, when the ice has melted, will be found to be wholly uninjured.? All the Yutr l,ound, 0;its the Uncrowned King: of Ccretils. The oats crop in this country, as in Fran,e, is becoming king of the cereals, not alone of its own great value, but as the cssent al to succe*bful horse raiting. The oats crop of the United states last year shows a wonderful in;rcase and there s an increased acreage for l!S!S*. The crop last year is above the a.'Cingo of ihe last live years, and is ?>.?*. I'uO bushels, :iti,U0<i,o(jU moic than the year before. Ten States?Illinois,Iowa, 5?ew York, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio. Indiana, Missouri and Kansas, produce about two-thirds of the entire crop. Lust year the total export of oats was a little less than bushels. .Note these States that produce the oat crops arc the horse raising riuies. They are all the <jreat draft horse breeding States, and the oats crop of the^e States, marketed in gra.le draft horses, brings the best price of any crop raised.?S> w Orient i'i>:ai,une. II!>>t to Kessisfilatc the i'ttintimr. "Very few persons Know how to attend to one who has fainted," said a doctor recently to a reporter for the New ^ oik M'tii mill tir/iie**. "They will often insist on raising fainting persons to a sitting or upright position. This is a great mistake, and is surficient todestroy the spark of life which remains. A short time ago an eminent Knsjlish stntesman d cd by th.s action, and in holding au in<)nest the coroner was very emphatic in telling how wrung those who had attended him had been. "When persona faint the best thing Jo do is to keep them in a prone position whtfc restoratives and local means are applied to enaWfe them, if possible, to wgain consciousness." - . -V - . . . ? .r CURIOUS FACTS. j The total number of Mennonitcs is 100,000. Ice was artificially made just one hundred years ago. British Honduras was settled by English from Jamaica. fi The French language was introduced ' into England by William I., in I0o6. The first locomotive built in the / United States was made by Peter y Cooper. { Franklin demonstrated in June, 1752, | the identity of the electric spurk and ( lightning. . An Oregon paper says that fruit-grow* V ers in that State gather live crops of pears in a season. . Wiley Fletcher, of Irwin County,Ga., ( is the proud owner of a fish hook that has been in constant use seventy-five years. j Two new kinds of church entertainments are coming into vogue, especially I In New England?the "tombola" and I the "kiakhta." I A I'tMo rrirl in Tvnlh Cnnntv. G&.. fl rejoices in the natna of Susan Julia Melmaa Maria Savannah Sophia Elizabeth Lady-Bug Towers. The wife of a farmer named Dufort, \ at Masanche, Canada, has given birth to [ her thirtieth child, the has been mai- \ ried twenty one yoars. Pages in Congress receive $3.45 per 1 day "while actively employed. The/ ! work on an average o; six hours a day 1 as long as the session lasts. ( Lord Ennismore, while ill at Victoria, British Columbia, was eared for under . the directions of an Knglish physician, f received by direct wire to London. , Words comes from Wheeling. W. Ya., that a live bat ha3 been found there imbedded in solid rock in a crcvice just big w enough to contain it, and utterly shut \ away from the outride world. A convict in Sing Sing Prison, New * York, has a pet mou-ic and fire pet cock- ' roaches, and although his term will soon be out he is so anxious about his pets that he doesn't want to be discharged. Under the laws of Canada if you are renting a house and it burns down you are holden to the owner for its full value. If it is blown down by the wind j or carried away by a freshet ho must pay-^you full damages. Judge Samuel Levy, an aged citizen of Augusta, Ga., during a social game of Soker, "called" a friend after a jack pot ' ad been opened, and when the hand was found to be four aces the judge suffered a fatal stroke of paralysis. The greatest steamboat disaster ever known in this country was the loss of I A mnrina ao i 1 innr frnm AB bllU V/bUU(*i uiuvmvmj w??k?<ug pinwall to New York, on ir'eptember 8, I 18J7, with 4'.>1 passengers and 101 mem bcrs of the crcw. There were 527 lives ggTbe Southern Paci&c road claims the longest through-car service of any line fl in the world, between New Orleans and fl San Francisco, 219 i miles. The fastest fl through tiain is timed at 113 hours, 25 fl minutes, or at the rote of 23 miles an I hour. H A Mrs. Smith, of Grand Rapids, Mich., I was recently se erely injured by the 'fl sudden closiog of a folding-bed on fl which she was reclining. She was com- fl pletely shut in by the bed, and it became fl necessary to pry it apart before she could fl be released. fl Shakespeare's statue, just erected op- fl posite a tailor's shop on the Boulevard fl Hausemann, Paris, is described by some fl English residents of the French capital fl as representing the great bard as a tailor, fl holding a roll of cloth with one hand B and a book of bad debts with the other.' /fl The Emperor of Russia exhibited at fl Copenhagen an immeuse dinner service fl nf 'Orftsfipn china, which was manufac- fl tared for him a few years ago at a cost of $.">0,000. There is aMifferent scene B of Russian life on every piece, and every Rj variety of Russian uniform and costume H is represented. fl The Bells of Japan. Bj The bells of Japan are among its fl lovel.est possessions. One of the sweet* H est of them rang out many times every B day into the waiting air, in this far-away B little city. Its tone was intensely B thrilling and pathetic. The bells are not fl sounded by a clapper within, but are fl struck from the outside by a sort oft fl wooden arm, or battering-ram. Being fl withdrawn to the proper distance ana fl released, it strikes the bell once?and B the strokes are allowed to succeed one fl another only with a diguilied and stately H tegularity. Tradition savs the finest fl bells have much silver in their composi- fl tion, which ma; account for their deep fl and wonderful sweetness. Whether this fl be so or not, the bells make a profound fl impression upon nil sensitive or musical fl organisations, heretofore accustomed to fl the more discordant church-bells of a fl newer civilization. And never did the lovely temple-bell H in Shirakawa ring out so sadly and dell" fl ciously as one night when a great fire H laid waste a portion of the city, 'thirty or forty hou<cs made a line biazc for two H or three hours, and we watched it from flfl the castle wall with pity and ioterest. H The crackling of l he flames as they licked *1 A 1 ?-" f itnntKAr. lip OUC lime inaicneu ruui ?iu> Wiis terribly audible: so, too. were the helpless cries aud shouts of the surrounding crowd?while the red cinders were whirled far aloft, and fell even around us. Hut through the confnsioa nnd tumult, the calm bell rang out its indescribably beautiful note?in quicker succession than u-ual, but losing non? of its d;<?uity and sweetness for all the diacordaut sounds around us.?St. Nizhotan. Fate of Old Cars inul Eitg'iiios. H In the excursion Geascn, when railroads are pressed for rolling stuck they oftea canuot wait to order new cars, and they go to the brokers and buy up old hulks that have had new roofs put on or new wheels or new upholstering, and the peop e who ride at reduced rates have to pat up with little a Ic<s comfort. Then again old cars aud engines arc cftca j^E used iu constructing new ro.-ids. Sometimes when a car has pushed through ths hands of the carpenter and painter, no matter how dilapidated it was it is practicaliy new, and s-ells at a corresponding high price. Kecently \ ice-i'rcsident Frank Thompson, of the Pennsylvania Uailroad, cast oil' his splendid palace fnr car wncn it was ?jruw:uj$ mt n?i.,v wear. The old cir men got hold of it, puta new face on it. and now it is in the service on one of the ifouihern roads as the President's private car. The price* at which these old cars !ind engines sell varies, of course, according to their agc^H and the amount of repairing that has^H been done to them. An engine, costing when new from $5000 to $10,00i), will^H go under the hammer when the sceond-^H hand man has it for from $.0l)0 up, and^H corresponding prices rule with cars. 2sot infrequently the roads that get eld^fl stock pay dearly for it in the end. An^H engine blows up with little provocation, 19 or a car breaks downs, and the roadloscs^fl more in damages than would have p6r>HH chtsed a new ouifit.?FhUudeiphiJ^M Rerard.