The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, June 23, 1893, Image 4
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The Harden Way.
In a little villago in Sussex, England,
there is a veritable milky way of lilies,
where thousands of white blossoms
lied their perfume aud where women
gardeners tend and paek and ship the
fragrant products. Twenty-live years
ago a single lily bulb was given to Mrs.
Bates, a lormer's daughter, who tended
the gift with the care women bestow
on flowers, and when" sixteen bulbs
hod resulted from the original, one,
r --.1 or? n?4?. e-?i 'it
nuvi illlillll^ VUny 11CJ. CUlI*
(Iron, mi she called them, had outgrown
the sunny window whero they grow,
she planted them in the corner of tho
garden. Ten yefftu ago a daughter of
Mm Bate*,-inspired by tho wilier prise
of the time, scut some blossoms to tho
Itondon market, and now, in association
with her sisters, has made the
Bates lilies famous for their beauty
and perfection. The daughters aro
keen business women, interviewing
their buyerH at the six o'clock market,
selling without interference of agents
to private customers, florists and compiission
merchants. Tho average product
is (500 dozens a week, which aro
packed by women in the gardens.
Women are taking up floriculture to a
considerable extent in England, and
at the Horieultural College landscape
and kitchen gardening are taught by
lectures, denioiistrstions and practiesl
work. It is an interesting fact tlmt
applications are received at the college
faster thiyi tho women can l>u trained.
?Prairie J'Wmer.
A. Papier.Maclie Hospital.
Papier-mache, which can be compressed
almost to tho solidity of iron,
promise* to coiuo into voguo us a
building material. A portablo hospital
large enough to accommodate t wen
\y ueus nus nceu mane ni compressed
paper. Every part of tlio building ih
numbered, and the wlmlo can l?o
paeked up in such a way as (o be carried
by three transference trucks.
These trucks arc so planned as to form
the bases of the hospital, T-shaped
joists of iron keeping the foundation
steadily in place. Over this comes a
flooring of compressed and varnished
paper boards, which adapt themselves
admirably to cleanliness. The walls
Hnit eef ling arc of tlio same material,
i i?? - - -1- ? t'.dn
galvanized iron wire, connect tlio
parallel walls. Hides are bored between
the walls and the ceiling for
purposes of ventilation, and the windows
are made of w ire gauze with a
transparent coating. Such a building
would be of great service in tropical
countries, especially if in addition to
its lightness and strength it can ho
> made fireproof. ? New York Telegram.
"JTenr Tranquebnr, on fho soutticnstem
coast of India, there is a species of
fish which not only is able to walk on
level ground but can climb trees.
tVc Cure Rupture,... -> - -?
I tor ?Cr<MirttV' h?0w. ,lo,>K urTuHHiur. Writs
Iw?, u-stimVinials, etc., to s. j.
ks *iru?" n- yHats
Tor llie summer or nearly every
eort, and as variously trimmed, aro to
be worn. Anil the most extracirdirary
combination of colors appeurs iu the
deconvtiunVuv
persons nro brokon down from ovor?o?Kor
no?8fli?lii cares. Brown's Iron lntjav
tors rebuilds the system, abls digestion, rcmoves
cxcckh of bile, aim cures malaria* A
splendid tonic for women and children.
Kentucky lends tho Southern otatos
in the production ??f tobacco, witli a
crop of '221,880,000 pounds.
J. S. Parker, Fruiloni.i, X. V., says: "Shall
not call on you for the glo'l reward, for 1 la;liove
Hall's Catarrh < 'tire wilt euro any en-oof
catarrh. Was very bad." Write hint for part
Ici'Jars. Sold by Dro^if'sts, 75c.
. Tho first mention of the pipe organ
in hiHtory is in connection with Solomon's
temple, where there wus an organ
with ten pipes.
A wonderful stomach correct or-- Heecliam's
Pills, Bcecliam's- no others. Ji5 cents a box.
The corporation of the city of Tondon
has voted a present of $12,500 as
a betrothal present to Princo CJeorgo
and Princess May, of Teck.
Ladle* needing a tonic, or children who
Want building up, should take Itrowii's Iron
6lttera It is pleasant to take, cures Malaria
idlgeation. biliousness anil I.i ver Complaints,
makes tho Blood rich and pure.
The Scotch herring fishery is now
%he greatest in the world, employing
12,000 boats and 100,000 people.
^ " I cordially rt'roinmed Hood'a Sar.-ai arilln
to all sutTcring with indigent ion, impure Mood,
humors, loss of appetite, or run down, or out
of order K?nitrnlly. it trill Mttrrlii lirl/t
ftot* If there Is any help for ynu. I have touiul
t a very at benefit for malaria, chills ami
fever, rheumatisni, kidney complaint and catarrh,
err it trhen I ootmitleml ????/* //
inruraltle." Hknmy S. Kohtkii. Scan orough.
N. Y. N. H.? Ho euro to get Hood's.
11 mot's rills act ousUy, yet promptly anil uflleiently,
on the liver and bowels. 25 cents.
GOITRE PllPm 8KN,) f,,r KKKR ( In ula?
Ull HE WUHCU J.K. Klein, Belleville,N. J.
L MiMBmriirrrTYii"^~i lf"T?n?II<>um* ui?t
P I BLOOD POISON 1 ?rVt SWWifl
9 I A 8PECIALTY. ?
gate our raltub Itty. Our
It, tin inrlal -'lira I*
K | 00,000. Wlioi tfiufVury,
Iodide potass In .a, aaninp rllla or UotBprlngs fall, W"
B. |Vtr&ntoo a c*ire?-and wir Mft/lfl Cypli H''iw i? tho only
B talnir that will rnTo p^rmanenwj. dmhtb pruoi dw?
B Hilnd, fro Cook u*juu>ir Co., Chicago, 111.
I With TMt4M, Kn.m.L mi<1 Feint* which Main the
I bMtb, Injur, tho Iron umI hum nd.
I The IlhituK Sun Stnvo Follsh id nrllllmit, ()ilorI
Iom, pur.blr, hi) the eouumer pay. (or no tin
I or gUrnm package with .r#ry pnrjniu.
THE PICTURESQUE COWBOY
HE IS RAPTDL.T PASSING A WAT IN
THIS FAB WEST.
Rapid Decltn ? cf the Range Business
the Cause ot His Disappearance
?What He Was In His Prime*
^ I ^HE rapid decline of the range
I business of Wyoming began
'* Al? years ago. Before that it
fc had been ot a character to
tempt even tho riph. At one time men
paid two j>er cent, a month for money,
and made 100 |>er cent, profits a year.
That was when cows came up from
Texas nt a cost of $7 each, sold in two
years for and in threo yearn for
$40 and more, when the ranges were
not oversrocReu, ino pMiurage was
good, nnd all tho conditions, including
' boom" prices at the stockyards, were
favorable. The men who did the best
pushed into new territory as fast as
the Indians were crowded off, and kept
finding now grass nnd plenty of it.
Hut the risks soon came, and multiplied.
If one man was careful not to
overstock a range, he could not be sure
that another cow outfit would not do
so precisely where he had put his cattle.
' Prices fell, fences cut up tho ranges
nnd shut off the water, winter losses
liecamo heavier and heavier, and tho
' "good old days" of this inhuman,
devil-may-care, primitive, and clumsy
business came to an etNT. Tfrrr cowboy,
of picture and story existed in tho
brilliant days. At first they had come
from Texas, but in the zenith of their
romautic glory they came from everywhere
and from every class. They included
young Englishmen, college
graduates from the East, well-born
Americans?all sorts who did not
"strike luck" at anything else, nnd
who were full of vim and love of adventure.
They got $M0 a month nnd
good keep during the greater part of
each year. They rode good horses,
that had as much of the devil in them
as the "boys" the^n selves. They bought
hand-stamped Cheyenne saddles and
California bits that were as ornate as
jewelry, and stuck their feet in grand
tapaderos, or hooded stirrups, richly
ornamented, padded with lamb's wool,
ami each as big as a lire-hat. Their
I 1 11 (ut gnniicou1 tilkiU
, j big brood felt sombreros coBt more than
I tho Prince of Wales ever paid for a
pot-lint.
And then, alas! the cow-men began
to economize in men, food, wages?
everything. The beat of the old kind
of cowboys, who had not become ownera
or foreman, saloon-keepers or
gamblers, or had not been allot, drifted
away. Home of the smartest among
them became "rustlers"?those cattlethieves
wlioao depredations resulted in
what almost came to be a war in Wyoming
last year. They undated that
they had to do it to live.
From, the cowboy stand-point it was
fiino for the business to languish.
, Towns were springing up every hero
and there, each with its ordinance that
cowboys must take off their side-arms
before they entered the villages ; wages
were low down ; men had to cart hay
ami dump it around for winter foot!;
settlers fenced in the streams, and
others stood guard over them with
fftW^liiHlied7""Frinn tfio"stand-point of
Nineteenth Century civilization the
sumo conclusion was reached ? tho
range business was an obstruction to
civilization, a bar to tho development
of the Htato, a thing only to be tolerated
in a new and wild country. And
now I am assured that there is not an
intelligent cow-man who does not
know that tho business is doomed in
Wyoming, and that tho last free-roving
herds must move on. There is not one
who does not know that small bunches,
of cattle, held in connection with agriculture,
must, take tho places of tho
range cattle, because better grades of
cattle can bo bred, better meat can bo
produced, all risks will nearly disappear,
and tlic exponscH of the care of
the cattle will not be a titho of those
> of the old plan.?Julian Hulph, in
i Harper's Magazino. *- *~
The Hazard of Whale Fishing.
It seems astonishing that men should
be willing to adopt so liazardonn a
method of getting a living as whaling
is nowadays in the far northern waters
of Aretie Alaska. But the risks do not
deter the bold hunters from pursuing
these valuable mammals into the most
remote accessible regions of eternal
ice. Annually they follow the whalea
around the most northern extremity
of the American continent, and some
vessels have even ventured to pass tho
winter in the Arctic Ocean. The value
of the fishery consists not so much in
j the oil taken as in the whalebone,
which is obtained from the mouth of
the animal. This is worth from $4.50
to $5 a pound. Tho product of a fair
sized bow-head whale at present prices
will fetch about $8000. A good sized
whale weighs 150 tons, and yields
about 2000 pounds of whalebone. His
tongue is fifteen feet long, eight feet
thick and ffivo? t w?>]von Jmrrels of oil.
His open mouth is from fifteen to
twenty feet across. The blubber forms
a coat around him from ten to twentytwo
inches thick. It is four feet from
flic outside of tho body to his heart,
and tho lutter organ is 216 cubic feet
in size. His brains will till a barrel,
i A few years ago whales were plentiful
in the North Pacific, Bering and
Oshkosh seas. Tho steady pursuit of
them has driven them into the Arctio
I Ocean, where tliev trv in vain to find
it safe refuge in the ice. In 1852 the
whaling fleet of the Pacific comprised
278 vessels, and the value of the catch
was $14,000,000. That was probably
Hi* moat profitable year of the industry
hi thoHe waters. Since then it has
decreased, until in 1802 the value of
1 lie catch was less than $800,000. At
present there are only about fifty vessels
engaged in the business yearly.
'. 'lie whaling ships are manned on tho'
i.a ?-4*?|Knrativo plan. Tho men instead
or r&oiving regular wages get a per?
utago' of tho profits. ? Washington
1 I tar.
It would be interenting to know how
the word "hey," which is the characteristic
name of many small islands
in tho Spanish-American waters, should
have crept so far north us tho coast of
New Jersey, where it is found in Key
East and Key West. The word iB from
(lie same root as quay, and it appears
some in i ml reds of times between Florida
and the coast of South America. 1
, \
"Eulalio" meant* "good talker."
"Galatea cloth" is a cotton drcm
material that closely resembles bedticking.
In her translated book Eady Colin
Campbell says that kissing ruins the
complexion.
Sarah G. Jones, a mulatto, dfJUchmond,
Vs., has been licensed to practice
medicine.
Miss Ainelio T'arr is gaid to make
from $10,000 to $15,000 a year from
her literary work.
Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox wears a
thumb ring and uses Ave quarts of
milk to one complexion bath.
Johns Hopkins University dooidedto
colder the title Ph. D. upon Miss Florence
Boscom, a Massachusetts girl.
Maria Pio, Dowager Queen of Portugal,
is a great sportswoman and one
of tho best woman shots in Europe:
Mrs. Frances Willard, tho temperance
advocate, will prolong her stay
abroad till September 011 account of
her health.
Instead of a deluge of rice a ehowef
of rose leaves is now the proper caper.
nn?t it in >? fnr tinintior nml pruttiui
way of winhioK good luck.
Miss Clara C. Barnum recently nddrcBsed
the Mathematical Club ol
Yule, and rend lior paper oa tlio "History
of the Infinite Series."
A Mrs. Perkins, of Missouri, lias
gone extensively into the farming business
in Now Mexico. Sho is said to
own the largest farm in the territory.
Doctor Mary Spink, of Indianapolis,
Ind., was appointed a member of the
State Hoard of Charities by the Governor
to succeed Mrs. C. W. Fairbanks.
When Queen Victoria travels by rail
the speed of the royal train ih reduced
to twenty-five miies an hour, so that
her majesty's slumbers may not bo
, disturbed.
Mins Charlotte M. Yongo in now
three seore nnrt ten and lias written
fnr more than the snmo number of
books. She began novel writing when
sho was twenty.
Edna Liyall, whose stories have mode
her famous 011 both sides of the Atlantic,
is in reality minted Ada Ellen
Bagly. She is described ns having a
flno complexion and lovely eyes.
Mine. Madeline Lcmairo and Mile.
Breslau, who are serving on the jury
of the salon of the Cliamp tie Mars,
Paris, are the tirst woi 11 who havo
held that position in any salon.
Mrs. Madeline Yiutou Cuhlgron has
in tnc dining x'ooin of lior house in
Woshington tho mirror used by Dolly
Madison in tho White House and afterward
in her own home us long as she
lived.
Probably the only woman customs
broker in this or any other country is
Hulda Orascr of 'Cincinnati. She is
only twenty-one years of age, but
already tjlu^gpntrols a large aiul nrofitPet
dogs arc being dyed so aa to harmonize
with the color of the ladies'
boudoir. They are dressed in tailor
made clothes. The fashionable coloring
for a small white poodle is two
shades of violet.
Mrs. Philip Newman, of London, ie
the only woman designer and jeweler
in all England. She is said to have received
at one time an offer from Tiffany
to come over and do certain designing
for him.
Mrs. Hcttie Green, who is worth
Some $-1(1,000,000, declares that she
would liko to bo a society woman il
she had time. Beiug rather destitute
in that respect, she prefers to convert
what time she has into money.
A craze for black satin lias developed.
Shiny or dull satin, so it ie
black, is all right as whole dresses,
or as parts of costumes, also as trimmings,
in fact in any way to suit the
fancy. Black satin evening gowns uru
quite the thing.
A Now York society lady who recently
had nine new dresses sent home
said, in reply to the inquiry, "How
much does your wardrobe cost you
each year?" "Six thousand dollars;
and 1 don't spend as much as lots ol
womon 1 know."
Mrs. Cleveland's tastes in jewelry
arc very simple. Although she owns
a number of rings, she rurely wears
any except her wedding ring. A favorite
ornament on dress occasions is a
beautiful diamond star, which was one
of her wedding gifts.
Carolina Ryder Morrill, a wealtlij
young widow of Chicago, died recently,
and her will directs that her estate,
valued at $600,000, shall ho divided
equally between her two children uud
Lewis H. Perry. Mr. Perry was a suitor
whom she was to have married in the
fall.
In Finland more than in all other
countries, women enter into the business
of life. They ore clerks, doctors,
dentist, builders, managers of small
companies, and bank cashiers. For the
latter ollice they are especially sought,
on account of their reputation for
honesty.
Two women doctors in "Buffalo, N.
Y., Doctor Lillian Randall and Doctor
Mary Greene, havo founded a hospital
for the medical and surgical treatment oi
women, that they may take a more
prominent part in operations than
women physicians aro allowed to take
in hospitals.
Mrs. Stranahan, of Brooklyn, who
has served on several World' Fair Committees,
says that sho is particularly
interested in tho portable kitchen
which has recently been sent on to
Chicago and in which Miss Carwon' will
give daily demonstrations in sanitary
and scientific cooking.
In Antwerp two women have just
beet^ appointed assistant clerks of the
court of civil cases, while in Sweden
I and Denmark the masculine reporters
of tho press gallery of the National
Legislature havo been replaced by
women. The official Htenographer of
the lower house of the Danish Parliament
is a Miss Omndtvig.
A novel onting suit is in dark bine
serge with deop cream satin vest aud
gilt buttons. Rovers of the satin are
placed over rovers of sorgo, and a collax
of both materials is placed at the
neck, while * /ftiln?8rt of blue nerge '
has two bands of tp|. same material,
edged with pipings satin, and gilt
buttons are f laced dAll the front toOne
of tho women in Washington
distinguished for intellectual gifts ia
Miss Nowcomb McGee, daughter of the
noted astronomer, who has the honor oi
being tho second woman elected a follow
of the American Association for tho Advancement
of Scienoe, and also a member
of the Anthropological Society.
She was graduated, in modioine from
the Columbian University, and is now
nt work in the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
. The Snytafg of Money. i
In ths saving Bhnks of New York
thero are $5550,000,000 deposited by
women. i
For a typicofamene in a woman's
savings bank, thatfis, a bank in which |
tuo depositors arc women, one needs
luit atop into tbe Emigrant, in Cham- |
l?ors street. "Women can khvq where
men sec onlj ruin before thorn. The J
cheese paring in dono at home, and
here the evidences of thrift and economy '
among tho women of New York is manifested.
Honr after hour, during bunk
hourtS there 1b a dtondy stream of all
degrees in life's social and educational
scale, i tit-cut Op^utting away tlicir
dollars for rainv day.
Nor sh'Mi'l^^SABSwiwed that women
do li^t kdHj^^HPo do business.
They voir. qdleq^HRpn the routine of j
dc ffosTt TiTg*Smout, signing !
and indorsing clHp^l all tho rest,
and thus it is thntcuey give the large j
corps of clerks little or no trouble.
Many women Save, money stealthily, j
for tho purpoife of buying a home, j
helping along the little ones with n
slender but constantly growing fund,
and for a thousand nud one human
reasons, such as women best understand
and most willingly lend themselves
to, no matter what the sacrifice.
There are thousands of women in the
city, so the ledgers in too big hanking
houses show, who, liko tho venerable
l.'eter Cooper, usurer allow a day to j
pass over their TOads without saving I
something, oven if it he only a dime I J
111 the BO-Callod jy?tmnttw wmnwi depositor:;
eoastiiJsSj; ti good percentage
of tho patrons, Ijet seldom aro their
average offoringsmbove a dollar, and
oftcnor they nroja half dollar. For
it is by such miw-^tos. -those that the '
rising fortunes nrejmnlded. And best
of all women snow how to accomplish
I \ ho" end, unci will do it wlieu a man
will fail.
"As long as n year ago," said ono
cashier, "a number of working girlH in
Now York came to/this hank and opened
accounts. As we grow better acquainted,
week after week, Ihe secret wus gradually
confided thafltho little funds were
to bo UBed to vifct tho. World's Fair.
All these weeks t?ese gifls have been '
lay iug by a doiiuitwo dollars, a halfdollar
; whatever Jfcey heretofore spent
tor bonbons, gtajflfropeTor gim-crocka.
Will they Vhii? Well, I
wish you couldtheir smiling faces
when they krpjrtw for < certain that tho
cud has been nigh reached. Yes,
tli'ey will go jtofche, Fair, and liavo a
good tiniaojUflfflMEoU you there is uo
ono like a ^fnPl^vu. "?New York
Frightful Slai|a^ftlimo Birds.
A clipping flMp * Texas paper anno
uncpB that aiflotflpial of one of tlio
Panhandle confltie*of that State has
made a contra? with a Kansas City
lirm to deliver "30,000 dozen prairie
chickens w ithin tlio next live mouths.
These birds, it-is eaid, aro to be sent
to Chicago to fill ffcpowtract madu with
parties in that oify, so that Chicago
may have a supply of these hens during
the whole timO|jpf the World's
Fair. It is hard to imagine that 3(i0,1)00
prairie chickens could ho delivered
by any ono contractor, but it is
certainly worth tho whilo of the authorities
of Texas to investigate this
matter and to endeavor to protect tho
birds that still exist in the Lono Htar
Statu.
Tho gnmo of Toxan, like that of
other plains States, has been ruthlessly
slaughtered, and to-day there is little
of it left in comparison with what
there used to ho. This little should ho
preserved by every legitimate meeus.
fhu destruction t??- the prairie chicken
over so large a portion of the territory
whore it was once enormously abundant
is still fresh in the public mind.
This is ono of tho birds whoso ex
leriimitti.um over a vaut territory hop
been complete, and unless measures for
its preservation are noon taken in seolions
where it still exists, it seems
likely that In tho course of a fow years
it will stand in the same position now
occupied l?y its relative, tho heath hen
of Nnushon ;.that is, may exist only in
tittlo polonies which are always growing
fewer in nniuturs and are speedily
to dio out. ?Forest and Htrcuin.
A RemarkableAncient Monument.
Tho Htonehenflkjwe of tho most roniarkabln
of tbefepaientmonuments on
the IfcriMhkhflflHRUa situated on the
Salisbury PUnV&hrtlt throe miles
from the vilM^jgMmesburv. It lict
at tho conjunct air of two roads, surrounded
by a ba/ik and ditch, and is as
muah of a puzzlf for the antiquarians
of to-dflly &u it km for those who carefully
surveyed and examined it a thousand
years ago. When perfect it consisted
of thirty huge upright stones,
varying in size and form, those at tho
entrance beinor thirteen feet hicrh. and
Homo of the others eightoonfeet. Thoy
ajU averaged sixteen feet in beiglit, the
majority of then} being six feet square.
These npright atones wcro joined together
by others at the top, theso last
lying horizontally, like the lintels of n
doorpo/it, and. each abont twelve feet
long. The wfioft nm. lr a huge circular
cage, the nso of whioh can only be conjectured.
At exactly 8.3 feet from this
circle of largo atones is an inner one
composed of forty "tones, standing on
end, bVit much smaller than thoee of
tho ante-ring. It is snpposed that this
structure was a Druidish temple. ?St.
XaMiis Republic.
? 1\ 1 .L rn.li,
lmu't uwwitv uit) i nixirfn.
Beware of trying to deceive children.
How often mast iferentg be taught this
lcnxon ?
4 'Why, mamma, vou've got" a gray
hair in yonr bang!"
"Yoe, dear. Tbat camo lieoanse you
were ?o naughty yesterday."
"Oh, mamma, what a naughty little
girl you must have lieen to grandma!
All her hairs are gray."?Demorowt's
Monthly.
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FA I US WITHIN TilE FAIR
CONCESSIONS ORANTKD WITHOUT
END AT THE EXPOSITION.
Everything on Solo From Tens to
Telescope Lenses. The Grounds
Lined Thtckly With liooths.
e CONCESSIONAIRES liave obtained
bo many right* at tlio
Fair it would 1>? possiblo for a
baby to enter the grounds in
all his meagreness of gnrb and conio
out arrayed like the 11 ajah of Jorovo in
en so by soruo goblin's touch his baldness
of birth might bo changed in a
day to that of age. Every possiblo
waut of humau nature from tho cradle
to the coffin lias been anticipated.
There is not a thing missing from bottles
for the nurslings to crutches for
tho decrepit.
There are safety pins in the Woman's
Building and St. l'otcr's domes in the
machinery; wormy cocoons for the
silk industries in tho Manufactures
Hall and flies ill the l^sheries J thimbles
and towels and matches, overshoes,
straw hats and handkerchiefs;
Eiffel towers, Solomon's temples and
baked clams; lace, balloons and
microscopes; Shakespeare's houses,
buttermilk and peanuts; last nails,
naked Apollos and cotton hales; bricks
made wliilo you wait, Bluo Grotto-ofCapris
and eider; song-books, cigarettes
and buns; suspenders, canes tuid
t uniuuiis ) vmivnynuuna nmnimHviii ?#nir
salcms; cut llowers, coiuholders and
inkstands; pop-corn, spoons and hairbrushes
; book marks, featherwork and
relics of La Rabida, gum and attar of
roses i Columbus, kinctograplis and
lemonade.
There is plenty of perfumery in
slots and an abundance of graphaphoncs;
knit mufflers, linen scarfs and
fountain pens; mud tiles, phonographs
and magnets: Santa Marias,
j Pintas and candy apples; Ceylon teas,
Japan sweets and photographs of Montana
; spring water, telescope lenses,
and lavender seeds; guides, cigars and
Venetian mugs ; shines, chocolate and
puzzles; liberty bells, elevator rides
and glass balls; Brazilian euri? ??, ,,p.
pies ami swims; flower pots, umbrellas
nud doughnuts; underwear, jewelry
and glue; cocoa, whale ships and
snuff boxes, stenographers and wire
pins; cactus plants, tintypes and the
Daily Columbian ; photos of tho Duko
of Veragua, canes and dolls; cook
books, baby food and East Indian
carvings and so on ad lib.
Corporations, individuals and companies
have bid actively for tho privilege
of supplying these articles. They
did not hesitato to contract to pay tho
exposition management one-fourth of
their gross receipts, knowing full well
that this sharo would bo added to tho
price or tho quantity or quality reduced
proportionately, or advantages
taken of tho willingness of visitors to
pay exposition rates. Most of tho
concession articles are not among tho
necessities of life, but are devised in
the belief timt Barnum was right when
ho declared that people wore happy in
being humbugged. Anyone who buys
a brat<s model labeled "souvenir" does
ho beeayse ho wants to, ayd wanting to
he nhould bo" given an opportunity.
The, nlian who, haakis name spun in a
is not a victim, or if he is ho is a willing
one. Ho who enjoys the mysteries of
electricity likes to buy a useless trinket
made by it and tho money he pays ho
does not regret. Thus at every turn
is found a stand with some sort of contrivance
which that sort of a visitor
wants.
Tho concessionaires come from overy
land, and tho chronic grumbler who
complains nt the numberless devices to
get money cun lay no blame to American
cupidity. Many French names in
tho lists show that the Burin fair people
hopo to replenish their fortunes
hero, and Austrian firms call to mind
thut Vienna once had an exposition.
Tho Mexicans also want to peddlo and
tho men from Venico have knickkuncks
to catch willing eyes and open purses.
Tho Eskimos know how to drivo good
bargains for bits of arctio relics, and
tho Turks show the shrewdness of thoii
thrifty neighbors from Jorusaletn.
Tho Javanese and Binghalcso and Siamese
aro ready for pooplo who want
itioir waros?all as ' "Busy STTST gnrrt as
tho famous money-coining Yankee.
No tasto has beon overlooked, no fud
left without its salvo and no tomfoolery
which has not a stand wliero it can be
cultivated.
Stands supplying the articles named
are copiously distributed about the
grounds and buildings. A long, line
of them is in front of Machinery Hall,
until its majestic proportions and
portals, with the lako washing dost
to its base, is largely damaged in lti
wonderful appearance. Tho loud
voiced hawkers who so annoyed pcoph
during tho tirBt days have been silencet
and now tho petty wares aro no'
thrust obtrusively into nil passers
faces.
Besides these articles of vertu, art,
clothing, food and otherwise mentioned
above, Midway has soino several liun
dred contrivances of amusement whcri
people get more fun than their mone;
pays for. There aro Turkish theatre
and Chinese dramas, Dahomey dame
with dreadful dances and amazon
with striking peculiarities, drinks ii
all tho languages of tho old world an<
jimeoraoks from every corner. Th
number fills many pages, each enter
prise contributing money to the ex
position?a quarter on each dollat
The bureau of concessions has in
specters, so that any extortion or al
tempts to make the unwilling buyer
will bo rogulatod.?Chicago Horald.
l< if, r-1 Lemon Culture.
Lemons always bring good priccf
and there is a steadily increasing th
mand for them. Florida claims tho prt
eminence over the whole world fc
their production. Little is known**
tlioir origin, and civilization has onl
i been acquainted with thcin a few cei
turica, but it ie thought that Centri
India waa their homo. McditerrancH
orchardiota have begun to realize tl
profit in their production, and in coi
sequence have been cultivating them 1
the exclusion of the orange. Floru
growers are doing the same.?Ainorict
Farmer.
One of the moat ingenious men
Hew England writes hia lettora in 1
ordinary handwriting, and then aig
them in a backhanded atylo ho hh
i make his correspondents think
makes use of a stenographer.
4
ar mrange to amy.
Of the many strange ways of bestow*
ing charity which owe their origin to
the eccentric whims of wealthy testators
there aro few more peculiar than
that which takes place at the Priory
Church, West timithfiold, every Good
Friday. This is tho Money Dole. On
that day twenty-ono widows might
have boon seen picking up sixpencos
from a tombstone. This singular custom
has been observed for so many
years that the actual dato of its inception
is forgotten. Even tho name of 1
tho benefactor is unknown.
It is stated that a suuvof money-was
-originally. hrtt provide
masses each year for the rcpoBe of her
soul, but when the Deformation
dawned the trustees were puzzled how
to carry out the bequest without inciting
hostile criticism. Eventually thoy
resolved to distribute the interest
which accrued each year from the
fund to a certain number of poor wid
? i. - ..l.?.1,1 ,.KI: I ?? i, ???1
imydy ?iiu Piiumvi i;u ui/ii^uvi auvoi
over tlio tomb, and pick up the money
from the stone which covered it. In
this way it was hoped that tho recipients
would involuntarily offer a prayer
for tho welfare of her soul.
Another difficulty, however, arose in
tho fact, that the nave of tho ehurli in
which tho lady had been buried had
been demolished, and tho site converted
into a graveyard. Utterly unable
to doeido where the lady aotunlly
was buried, the trustees soloctod a
rudej unlettered""" gravestone ixx the
churchyard, and upon this slab the
money was placed for tho women entitled
to receive it. About tho end of
the last century tho fund which supported
the charity was diverted, and
since that tiiuo tho custom has been
maintained by tho generous donations
of wealthy people who arc unwilling
that such a quaint charity should bo
discontinued. ?The Million.
Hun to Lighten a llanl Task,
Did you over have a hard task eel
you, to which you looked forward with
dread, and a determination to put off
the commencement of it as long as possible?
And did you ever ffnd out that
this latter course was ihe very way in
which to add to iis burdensomeness?
The reason for this is plain enough.
It only gives you longer time in which
to do the dreading. And after all, this
is tho worst part of the work. The
looking forward to it, the thinking
that it is still all to do. This is what
makes the bugbear of a difficult job.
Pet lo work bravely, w ith a determination
to do your best, and you will
And thnt a good part, of tho unpleasantness
of the task has vanished.?Argosy.
All other baking powtle
1 l itest United States Gove
inferior to the Royal in both
1 (See Bulletin 13, Chemical Division
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auce aud the miserable state of his
j health at that time. Help from any
source seemed impossible. He tried
j your August Flower aud the effect
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t him to perfect health to the gieat
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How to Secure Confidence.
This from, an authority: ' 'Don'l
ask questions, don't mention names,
listen occasionally, and you will find
yourself a society favorite." The first
"don't" seems to have been most correctly
placed. Thoro is nothing which
creates a plcasunter impression, and
which really leads to the most complete
confidence than the tact which listens
sympathetically to all a companion
will say, but novor probes deoper by
an impulsive interrogation. One learns
to trust such an acquaintace, and feels
in her company a peculiar senso of se^
curity that is very satisfying.?Brook
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