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A CRANBERRY BOG. SOETHING ABOUT THE BER &IES AND THE PICKERS. Craaberries In New Jersey and og Cape Cod-Jersey Bogs Are Often Free to All Coners-- , "Cranberry" Poultices. APE COD in the great cranberry country of all this part ot the world. The cranberry runi the ish that named the place bard in the affections of the people It does as much now toward support ing them, and it is the only thing te eat that that desert was ever known t produce. * Jersey grows cranberries, too, am the picking business is more pictur esque than on the Cape. There the "home folks" manage, by turning a the men, women and children into th bogs, to handle the crop, and, w everybody knows, there is nothing ex. oiting about the native Cape Coder. He is a suitable subject for Miss Wil kins's pen, but hardly for Rider Hag gard's. But in yersey, around Cranberry Centre and Pine Ridge, the picking if j done by a wild and vagrant class, many a of whom manage to get along with n.c visible means of support all the yeai till the time comes that they can work in t] hop fields or the cranberry bogs. The worst of the work is the stoop ing. Many of the men have theii knees oapped with leather, and move %bout more or less without getting up. About a third of the pickers at Pint Ridge and thereabout are women, anc it is noticeable that they are in every way les systematic at their work thar I the men; they stoop, they bend to F their knees, they sit down on thf ground for a change. "They pick as fast as the men flrs\ part of the day," said the buyer, who, in a shed at the edge of the bog wak measuring fruit, "but they give out sooner. But they come out of the season with more money than the men, for they don't throw it away so fast." i Many of the pickers here are ool ored people, and many are Italians, and with both gambling is a great pas time. They stop during the day t< gamble with their "tickets." These tickets are given them instead ot money by the buyer and are redeem able once a week. The actual picking is done in pail or baskets slung around the neck. I these are emptied as filled into a big. flat, wooden box that can be swung comfortably on the back. When it i6 flled it is slung there, and so carried to the buyers' shed. A bushel o' berries is a small load and a bushe' and a half a good-sized one. In most of this region the aranberrN i itll regarded as sent by the gra of God, one man having as good ? right to it as another. Pickers who, under this sort of squatter sovereign ty, own their berries, get this fafl fifty cents a bushel for them. Some o1 the men can pick three bushels and more in a day. . But many of them shorten their labors by a game of seven up in the woods after they have taker a a ouple of bushels Many of the. colored people live ih, ca'oins around the bog-lands, and . some of them board other pickers dur. ing . the cranberry season-$2.50 s week is a popular price. lIn other parts of Jersey the bog. and their produot are treated as pri vate property, and then the picking in doneby-okildrenandneighbors mainly. - - There is no such chance to make money as the wild bogs afford, and strangers are not drawn to the work. 1Jings are managed on this plan, too, - at Cape Cod. But, though on the Gap. hired laborers picking In private bog se to speak, get only twenty-five oenta abushel, the dscrepenoylis not so great asiteems. Picking can be doneMe in these private bogs; the plants are in better condition, largely becamse of more careful handling is .previceds picking seasons, they gros more thickly, and the culture that i, bestowed upon them results in biggez eand more of them. 4.% A"I tell you," said a West uireetmer chant, who goes into cranberries deep, as he puts it, and who visited Cape Cod in the beginning of the season tc examine the crop, "thera isn't a pret tier sight than some of those cultiva ted bogs down there, after the berriee are ripe. You see the bushes, vinee they call them mostly there, and they are neither bushes nor vines, as a mat ter of faot-well, whatever you ca[ them, they ain't big enough, and haven't leaves enough on it to hide the berries, and they just show up red and bright in the sun, over miles of coun try, till its prettier than any flowers. The. girls pick down there, and some times they'll put some berries on the stem in their dresses or in their hair. and when they are good looking it looks nice, I tell you. You've seen --- those immense big cranberries in mar ket this year, haven't you? And you thought they were the best, didn't you? They are what they call a onlti yated berry, and they bring a high price for their looks, but pretty is as pretty does with a cranberry, and those are not the best cranberries; they are dry, and have not the flavor nor the acid some of the smallest ber rio, have. The big ones and the beet ones both come from Cap. Cod, but they are not the same thing.' -"They' doctor witheaberries dows on the Cape--al you know that ? I got a touch of erysipelas wile I was there. I have It in my arm once ini a while.$I was going to hurry back to see mys own doctor here, but the old lady where I was stopping begged me .to let her put a poultice on it. 'What kind of a Doultice?' said L. Dretty wary of letting her get to work on a?thing Cape.\: Then when she !ound tnat notion was new to me she talked me blind telling me all the people 'eram berry' poultices had raised from the ded. I saw I'd be dead from ex haustion pretty soon, and I thought there was less danger in the poultice ao I told her to go ahead. "Well, now, i'm telling you tha. was a wonderful thing, it drove the erysipelas somewhere; aint seen nota eg of it since." Housekeepers don't genaelIykno' that it does not hurt cranberries t. freeze. At Cape Cod, where the ber-esor a,.. o14.i ll winter. ney are not allowed to cumber ,rowded cellars, but are set wher5 ;hey will freeze and stay frozen. 14 s considered the proper way to take >are ofthem. -New York Recorder. WISE WORDS. TL4 real wise man never makes the ama mistake twice. The justice that a wicked man never rants is the justice he deserves. If a woman is ever merciless it it rhen she gets a mouse in a trap. The greatest trouble is easier to bear han the known guilt of one sin. How we all admire the widom ol hose who come to us for advice. If happiness in this life is your ob act, don't try too hard to get rich. There is such a thing as trying to ive on blessings and starvingto death. When a man decides to say good bye D his sin, one look at the cross kills it. Bad men do right only because they ave to; good men, because they love 0. No man wants to be a saint until e finds out what it means to be a sin .r. The man who rides a hobby is al rays complaining that the world is too ow. The lean pig is the one that squeak he most, Let the faultfinder make a ote. People who blow their own horn ldom furnish good music for other lks. People who have to make a lon& each to pick up the cross find it It is hard for some men to believ. hat a sin can be black as long as it ays well. A self-made man spoils his wor very time he opens his mouth to >raise himself. There are spots on the sun, and yet I ome people expect a twelve-year-ol, 1 oy to be perfect. Some people never find out that here is joy in giving, because they do ot give enough.-Ram's Horn. 2o7L, HLLarr. Arrival-"Can I put up at thi touse?" Clerk-"I suppose so. Got any ~aggage?" Arrival-" INo." Clerk-"How much do you want t )ut Ua '-Detroit Free Press. CHAIR CUSHION, EASY CC / nageWTTT WAIT A CAPOTE HAT WITH STI loyalty Doesn't Always Come High. The smallness of his stature is al nost as sore a point with the Duke of rork as the short-coming is with his ather. The Princess of Wales and "rincess May are a good deal taller han their spouses, and that is the eason why the P1ince of Wales has nch a marked aversion to being >hotograpbed standing by the side of he Princess. If you look at 'most gy photograph of their Roy:d I Iigh esses, you will see that eitLer the Irincess is sitting in a chair with the ?rince standing behind her, or, if she e standing up, the Prince is mounted n some steps in the background. !here are a number of the masculine embers of our royal family who rould be prepared to take any quantity I thought if they could thereby add n inch or two to their height.-Lon on Figaro. The Electrical Horsewhip. A wily horse trainer some time ag(. >rovided the jockey who was riding Lis horse, for a valuable cup, with a :omplete electrical outfit for supply ag current to apair of electricalspurs. .he current was found to be an infin tely more potent stimulus to the speed if the horse than the simple steei pur, and the horse won. A protest ras entered and the jockey was dis ualified and the race forfeited on the omewhat inconsistent ground of ern 1ty. It seems doubtful whether such n objection can be brough. against he latest form of the horsewhip, rhich is constructed so as to give a light electric shock to the animal. 'he handle, which is made of cellu >id, contains a small induction coil nd battery, the circuit being closed y means of a-spring push. The ex remity of the whip consists of two siall copper plates insulated from ach other, each of which is provided -ith a tiny point. The plates are con ected to the induction coil by means f a couple of flue insulated wires. As means of surprising a sluggish animal ito doing his best work without the ifliction of physical pain the elect~ri il horsewhip will by many be hailed ith gladness. -New York Commer al Advertiser. WIH ONRATIG IPE '~'\AT ANDDRSS IT B WORDS OF W 1TSD 0. Every day is a little life. Few love to hear the sins they love to act. Politeness is the result of good sense rnd good nature. Doing nothing for others is the un loing of one's self. Pride requires very costly foo..-its teeper's happiness. Delay has always been injurious tc. ,hose who are prepared. All cruelty springs from har d heart xdness and weak character. It is a barren kind oi -:iticism tha alls you what a thing is not. A clean mouth and an honest hand rill take a man through any land. Silence is the safest course for an, nan to adopt who distrusts 1:mself. No ashes are lighter than those oi ncense and few things burn out sooner. In character, in manners, in style, n all things, the supreme excellence s simplicity. He who forgets his own friends neanly to follow after those of a highe: legree is a snob. The injury of prodigality leads to his-that he that will not economize ;il have to agonize. ans=AKAnz =Ev NsCE. "S-a-s-h I" exclaimed the Anarchist. "There be spies among us." "You don't say so!" "Let us talk only of the weather.' "But how do you knew we are watched?" *,See that man who just entered?" ] "Yes." "He is an aristocrat-a capitalist." i "How do you know?" "By his extravagance. Ho blow: I ,he foam off his beer instoaw of wadft- I ng for it to settle."-WashingtonI tar. Mrs. Fidget (as she lays down hei iovel)-"These ghost stories are silly. rust as if any one would believe them I" Mr. Fidget-"Yes, that's so; bu% Fou had better go to bed now, dear. t's after 11 o'clock, and Ill have tc be up for a couple of hours yet." Mrs. Fidget-"What! go to bec done, after reading that book? NoI nuch J"-Puck. C LORE EMBROIDERY 1S LED LEE OIDOERPE. DE 3KEWT VLE M*"'* *ad'''' "-a he ~II -Lov onemih do bunw insead - mrs or Kit-Ad eeyu xrml JART POIN, AND LACCOIFFU d Of ELERLYWOEN To-Iws bety eoe. 8itty-"Ohree, "Itlliaboueeit Untotha yoth o rshWas it really a thrilling tale of Ikve "Lov one miht o, bt nw, ~ 'and passion?" - A girl must have the ahego"cod Tom-"Yes; I did the love, and her ther did the passion."-Truth. /7/ AIST. OPERA CAPE OF OSTRICH FEATHERS. PRINCESS AD~ CAPE TRIMTMTNGI maer Selkirk, the Bobksnon rnwUem romance, lived for 0o =MY at the present tim ' valleys, winding down from mM t directions, join a short disbade %d from the shore, and here noW AM&bA little village of small hutsa WMd round a long, low, one-stored bMe ing, with a veranda raingi whole ength. In this house lives the Ma who rents the island from the a Government, and the village b n up of a few German and Chean faP lies. The tiny town is called SMA M Bautista, and the crater-like a,ei bhe sea on which it is stuasted, and where Alexander Selkirk first hnkde is now canled Cumberland Ba. T island is rented for abont im0aya. The rent is paid partly in drid Ki atching and drying the many raf ties of fish and raising cattle and tables wholly occupy the osat settlers, and much of their littla ome is obtained from' the cattle and vegetables sold to passing yes.a. 24 Dattle need no care and the vegetabb Plmost grow wild. Turnips and lshes, first grown here by Skhj bimself, now grow rank andwM is the valleys like weeds. There is aE race of wild dogs, which comple* Dverrun the island, depAnI Maat for existence upon seals. khe descendants of a breed of dogs le iy the Spaniards. At the back of the littleto m, In t&a Ert high cliff, is a row of caves of e' markable appearance hewn into the sandstone. An unused path leads to them, and a short climb brings one t their dark mouths. About fortyeas kgo the Chilean Government ougld hat a good way to be rid ofitswis :riminals would be to transport the bo the Island of JuanFernandea.re, inder the direction of Chilean so l bhese poor wretches were made to "dig !aves to live in. In 1854 they were ,aken back again, however, and the saves have since been crumb ' away. The narrow ridge where kf atched is now called "The Saddle," ecause at either end of it a big rocky inumock rises like a pommel. On ne of these is now a large tablet with scriptions commemorating Aexan ler Selkirk's long and lonely stay on land. It waa placed there in 1868by he officers of the British ship Topas. L small excursion steamer now rUns rom Valparaiso to Juan Fernandes tsland. The round trip ismade in six lays, and three of these may be spent n the island in fishing and visitin hose lonely but beautiful spotswbih, iearly 200 years ago, were the haunts >f Robinson Crusoe. - Melbourni rgus. Teloclty of the Earth's Rotaton Everybody knows that the earth nakes one complete revolution every wenty-four hours. But few, hew ver, have any idea of the highrate of peed necessary to accomplish that eat. The highest velocity over at sned by a cannon ball has been eti nated at 1626 feet per second, which s equal to amile in 3.2 seconds. The arth, in making revolutions in twen y-four hours, must turn with a ye. ocity nearly equal to that of a cannon >al. In short, the rate of speed at he equator hap been estimated at ex tlyl000fetper second, or a mille very 3.6 seconds. Therefore' it has een calculated that if a cannonball rere fired due west and could maintain ts initial velocity independent-of the arth, and could keep up the assied -ZZ ith which it left the mouth of the run, it would beat the sun in his ap- -- >arent journey around the earth.--St. .ouis Republic.. akes His Face TfreG. A well-known caricaturist living is his city complans of an alnta that characteristic of his professioin, and hat is, to say the least, unusual. "I - ~et,"he said, "face-tired; ad I mea >y that to say that as I draw uncon ciously my face assumes the expreas-* :esent ina distorted way, and. as q esult at the end of a couple of hour( find myself compelled to rest, no( y eyes nor my hands, but my fuce E do this either lying down or by go ng out on the street with a determina tion of spending my time in lookig it things and not at people, for I find [ study their faces at the expense of - nayown. I take akeen delight inmy work, and that is the reason, I sap oso, I am so sympathetic with Ik"' Philadelphia Recor'i Recording the isea of the Nile. During the time of the peridU mundation of the valley of the Nile a - ueer recording instrument, known as he "nilometer," is hourly and daily sonslted by a sluggish Egyptian of cer, who, to judge from his motions and actions, cares but very little if the river keeps its bed or overflows the whole northern half of the African continent. But, as it is the only labor he is forced to perform, and his bread and cheese usually dependuponproper eecution of the duties assigned, the record is taken with sorupulous accu racy. This queer..and ancient "ther rometer of the Nile" (it dates back to 815 A. D).) is situated at the end of the Island of Rhoda. It is simply an im mense upright octagonal pillar stand ing in a well-like chamber, surrounded on four sides with strong walls pro vided wth arched openinlgs which al low the rising waters free access to the covered throughout its length and on all of its eight sides with oubits and digits nicely divided, painted with great precision, much resembling sec tions of a gipatie checker-board. There is a huge staircase leading from above down to the bottom of the cis tern, in which the nilometer stands, the well-worn steps attesting to the immense number of times the instra' mient has been consulted. Coble-"As I was coming out a Miiss Castleton's last night, I met he father face to face." Stone-"Did you bow?" Cobble-"5o. I ducked."-Life. .A GREAT CoMrBINATION. "I awsked her old man's conserb tawst night." "Didyou come out withflying colora ld man?" "Yaws-black and ba,-a (ied'sWasingon