The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, July 27, 1905, Image 6
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THE ?NSWERINC CHORD.
*T SASNIR BYBB TrRXEB.
The city a tumult surges high j
Here in ilo.- noi?y. struggling -=tr?.'ot;
With t'rctlui voice and hurried feet
Th'- n ?:!<** morning march goes bv. 1
A i mi sounds are born and die,
Bui one. that will not faint nor fail,
Keeps up its slow monotony?
An old sireet-or,tan's plaintive wail.
A beggar, tremulous and blind. I
Is playing dreary airs that must
Earn from the world a daily crust
As long as weary hands can grind:
But scant the wages that they find,
For nowhere in the jostling throng
* ?*Ace jivfs wiwi insuic icit u? uccu
The crude petition of a song.
Clatter and rush and dust and crime
And the hot. tired morning done.
But not a listener had they won?
The faulty tune, the halting time:
When with the sudden noonday ehime
i>nm out the jingling medlev come.
*ke words of eomfort healing pain.
The tendei notes of "Home. Sweet Home." j
> 'There is no plaee like home." he says.
The old. forsaken, homeless man.
With soul too worn and warped to sp*a
The pathos of the thing lie plays?
And somewhere in the crowded way*
Men hear old. silent voices sing.
And. spite the current's onward sweep,
Falter a while, remembering.
"Xo place, no place like home"?the word
Grows faint and fainter down the street,
And somewhere slower pass the feet.
And somewhere sudden tears are stirred,
And dim, far whisperings are heard
In hearts that deemed them surely dead;
And one petitioner has gained
The penny for his daily bread.
?Youth's Companion.
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1 ANALYSIS i
| OF BEAUTY, j
JtOJC 3 you mean to tell me
4 yx that's the third to-night?"
O I ft O I asked in amazement of
)R Miss Kaveline. She nod<1a<1
nnd 1aal<o^ ctoa/lfoct.
UCU. UUU ivvfttu onuuiwgv
]y at the portrait before
her. "I knew he was one," I went
on. "It was evident. His case betrayed
itself. He was as if moonstruck."
"I think you're a little unkind." remarked
Miss Raveline, scrutinizing the
portrait with interest. "He's?he's
quite nice."
"It must b/e a great nuisance to you,"
I said.
"It's horrid." she declared, moving ,
to the next portrait. "One doesn't like
to?to hurt people's feelings, don't you (
know; and besides, it's embarrassing."
"Do sit down and let's talk about
it." I urged her. "It's really very in- ,
tercsting to interview a girl who's been )
proposed to so often."
Miss Raveline reluctantly sat down,
and glanced apprehensively down the
picture gallery. "One can't talk about <
such things," she said firmly.
"Ob. we needn't name names," I
said, with my eyes on the rose in her
cheeks. "1 think I pretty well know j
who?*' ,
?>A1. cK/i IniAW
VII, liV, J'UU UJ USlli I 911C lUin*
rupted. hastily. "I've no right to
hear you. I won't say anything."
"Very well, then." I concede*!. "Itut
I know all the same: and I'm sorry
for tliem. of course, but I'm sorrier
for you."
She sighed and opened her fan. "Yes. ,
I wish I wasn't so rich. It's all that
money."
I said nothing: she glanced at me.
and repeated with another sigh. "It's
all the money."
Still. I made no answer, because, as a
matter of fact. I was interested in a
picture on the wall, and the light was
none too good. We had come up to see
some picture. Which was it?
"I thing we must go back," said
Miss RaTeline in a cold voice, as she
rose.
"Oh," I said, getting on my feet.
"But you haven't seen that picture
yet. We'll just go round and find
It."
Miss Raveline hesitated, and then
followed me. and we moved along
under the low light. "We couldn't see
it by this light," she observed, still
coldly.
"Oli. by tliis light it looks so much
better.'' I explained. "I'm afraid
there's no help for you." I went on.
Miss Rnveline looked at me. "Xo
help!" she echoed.
"No; you see. your beauty draws
them as flames the moth."
She averted her head slightly to examine
a picture. "You can't blame
them," I added.
"Of course, no one blames people
like that." she replied, evidently from
far away. "It's a compliment that
any one should want you to?" she
paused, "unless, of course, it's the money.
and then?"
"Oh. it isn't the money," I said decidedly.
"Don't yen think so?" she asked, fingering
her fan again. I sat down.
Miss Havfline sat down.
"Of course, you are aware you are
beautiful?" I said.
"Oh. no." deprecated Miss Ravel inc.
"I know?I suppose I've got certain
good points," She was deeply interested
in her fan. I gazed at her. and
me tow ngui eiiunuceu iit'r neauiv.
"(local points!" I said reflectively,
aim very coolly. "Yes: you have certainly
good points. For example, your
head is set on prettily. Some women
have meager necks, out the throat
should be columnar: it is the pillar of
lite, and should show strength and
gra ce si in ul t a neously
"Do you think so? How interesting:"
said Miss Raveline.
"Then, for another thing, your eyes
are good in shape and color, but-"
Miss iiveline. whose eyes had been
dropped,Raised them quickly at the
"but."
"But what?" she asked hesitatingly.
"Oh, well. I've no right to criticise,"
I said, apologetically.
"You have, if I ask you," she replied
somewhat abruptly.
"But still?" I said, and passed on
hurriedly. "Your nose is really fine in
line and molding, though of course it
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would be better If it didn't turn up
iust a?"
"It doesn't,protbstovl Miss RaveFne,
crossly.
"No. of course," I ^urried on. "But
rour hair?"
"Yes; is there anything the matter
with my hair?" she asked with lofty
sarcasm.
"It's color is good," I said, "and as
for your complexion?" I hesitated.
Miss Itaveline was drumming on her
fan impatiently.
"Well?" she said, almost defiantly.
"I can't sec well enough in this light
to give a definite opinion." I said.
' Before deciding I should like to inspect
it more closely and more thoroughly.
so to speak."
"You're right. The light is bad."
she said abruptly, and got up resolutely.
I rose after her.
"I was afraid you wouldn't like me
to?to give my opinions so bluntly." I
said timidly. "Of course. I'm sorry if
I have lntft?"
"What an absurdity!" she said, with
hauteur. "I don't in the least mind
what you say. And you've been quite
complimentary. I suppose. Pray go
on." She reseated herself, a monument
of statuesque reserve and frigid
civility. "It's nothing to me what you
think." she said, icily.
"Well, there is your mouth." I went
on very nervously. She turned slightly
toward me with a lofty inclination of
her head, as though giving me gracious
permission to take liberties with
her mouth. I wished that I could.
"The lips are perfect in color and design?so
far as I can judge from a Ui^
tance." I explained, "but here again ^
mnrn tWrnicli prnmirmtifm would be
necessary before?"
'"Have you nearly finished?" she
asked in her scornful voice.
"I think there's only your waist left."
I ran on precipitately.
"Oh. yes, my waist, of course." she
said with irony, "what are you going
to do to my waist?"
"I wasn't going to do anything." I
replied, but I wished I was. "It only
has always struck me as being well
proportioned and jimp, as they say in
Scotland. The stature is sufficient,
and the modeling is just?always providing
that it is natural and not?"
Miss Raveline rose for the last time,
magnificently angry. "Thank you so
much for your candor," she said loftily.
"But?but we haven't seen this picture."
I urged. She paused, and then,
ignoring my remark, took one step toward
me. "You'd better take me down
again. I think!" she said, almost under
her breath, and her face quite near
me. "Why?but why?" she asked almost
tearfully, "but you said I was
beautiful!"
"So you are." I answered promptly:
"the most beautiful woman in the
world." She was silent, as if astonished.
"There is no beauty but has
some strangeness in the proportion." I
quoted from Bacon. "The slight tilt
of your nose?"
"It isn't." she said feebly.
"The faint irregularities of your face
only enhance your beauty. You are
not icily, regularly, splendidly null.
And. personally. I happen to adore all
the defects in you."
"I don't see how you could- do that."
said Miss Raveline in a tremulous.
half-laughing voice. "But you said?
my waist?" She stopped.
"Well, you see. I don't know from
personal experience." I replied. "I
dare say it is?if I only knew."
"It is?it is really."
I made the experiment boldly. "It is."
I whispered, and added. "I'm sorry to
make the fourth to-night."
"You might have been the first. Why
weren't you?" she asked.
"Well, you see. it was all thai money."
I quoted.
"You said?yoU said that my iips?"
"Yes. I must make sure I was right
there." I declared, and I did so.?H.
B. Marriott Watson, in Loudon Mail.
Bottled Money Thrown Aw.iv.
"While walking through the Westchester
County hills looking for dogwood
.last Sunday," said a Harlem
grocer, "I came upon an acquaintance
who was with a party picknieking on
a shady hillside. Introductions were in
order and I was asked to have a bottle
of soda. Five of us clinked bottles
and disposed of their contents without
the aid of glasses. As each man finished
his bottle lie threw it down the
hill into a clump of bushes. They were
good, sound, patent-stopper bottles
that it costs live cents each to manufacture.
" 'Don't you take the bottles home
with you?' I inquired.
"My host looked at me in amazement.
'I should say not,' he said; 'it is hard
enough to carry three dozen out here,
without lugging the bottles all the way
back. I never knew anybody to do
that.* *
"I lose on an average a gross of
bottles each week during the summer
from my two stores, for which I have
to make good to the wholesaler. We
make a pretense of asking for a deposit
on the bottles when we deliver
a case. But when a woman makes
a fuss about it the boy on the wagon
waives the deposit rather than bring
the bottles back to the store and risk
losing a customer. Verily, if a man
wants to find out the inside workings
of his own business he must wander
far a-tield from it."?-New lork Press.
The KuMlan Admiral'* Xante.
A correspondent writes: "As there
lias beeu a controversy in the Times
about the pronunciation of Admiral
Rozbdestvensky's linuie, which is said
to present such insuperable difficulties
to Englishmen, perhaps I may mention
that the difficulty is not so very urea*,
after all. The accent lies on the second
syllable. The name is pronounced
Uush-dest-vensky. The nickname shortening
it into 'Roj.' (abbreviations like
Tain.' for Palmerston. .'Dizzy' for Disraeli,
etc.. being so dear to Englishmen)
is certainly wrong. It could at
most be "Ttoseh.'London Pall Mall
Gazette.
A More Frequent Occurrence.
"I've been reading of a man who
reached the age of fifty without being
able to read. He met a woman, and
for her sake made a scholar of himself
in three years."
"And I know a man who at middle
life was a profound scholar. At the
age of fifty he met a woman, and for
her sake made a fool of himself in
three days!"?Cleveland Leader,
Drag: In Making IJirt lloml*.
)<y>K3IQI0g(V the word -drag'' we do
<?* ?^ *<S not mean a harrow, but an
* rK * implement such as that
j wy used by .Mr. Iving in ilXQIOMSIGIfcw'trating
his lectures, in
connection with the Northwestern
good roads train, on the subject
of how to make good roads out
of just dirt, or any other kind of
dirt except sand. Those drags are
sometimes made after the arrival of
-I-- H,? .-nlit lrt.r <;nim>tinips
llll? l'#l nun in*.- .-I'm iv?,
from plank of1 cither hard or soft
wood. Anybody can make the drag,
and the boy is likely to make a better
1 drag than his father.
The question we discuss now is drf1
lnitely and specifically how to use It.
' Make your drag at once so it will be
' ready. After the first rain hitch on, to
i your drap so as to pive it an anple
! of about forty-five degrees and go
down one wheel track. The best way
is to po from your own front pate to
the next neighbor's front gate 011 the
way to town, then turn around and
come back on the other track, smoothing
down the rough places, tilling up
the ruts, and throwing a little dirt to
the centre of the road. It is bette.
to have the ground quite muddy and
J slushy the first time. (Two horses
kmay not be able to pull the drag if it
%s a heavy one, >0 if necessary, put on
the four-horse evener and hitch up
four.) Then stop. You will have made
a smooth passageway some twelve or
fourteen feet wide, a little higher in
the middle than at the sides, which
will shed water fairly well. Then when
I it dries off partially, put on your two
J horses and go over it again? perhaps
i that afternoon or tile next day?then
j wait until after the next rain, and
when it is drying off (a little experi!
ence will show you just when it !s
1 right) do it again. Passing trams
[ in the meantime will have puddled the
earth and made it so that it is partially
impervious to water. Teams
will not be obliged for comfort to follow
one track. There will be no ruts
for them to follow and you will find
that they will heat down and compact
j the whole of this twelve or fourteen
#feet. Then wait until after the next
rain, and do it again, always throwing
a little dirt to the middle of the
road and gradually grading it up and
I tilling up any holes or other uneven
UOSS.
This is a very simple method?so
simple that you will not believe in it
until you try it. You will ?-onder that
you did not think of this long ago; that
it never occurred to you that the
tougher the mud the better the road
it will make. If you want to got your
road a little wider, wait until the next
| rain and plow a very shallow furrow
down, one side and up the other, then
take your drag and move this into the
middle of the road and still further
build it up.
Now, if every reader of Wallace's
Farmer will make the drag and go at
it as above stated, he will do more
. toward making good roads in the
| neighborhood than has been done by
| the road supervisors in the last ten
years, and do it with very little expense.
Is it not worth while taking
all this trouble to have a piece ol
good road in frbnt of your farm? I?
it not worth while to set an example
to your neighbors between you and
town so that they will be ashamed oi
themselves if they do not follow it,
j and thus have good roads to town
! during the greater portion o( the year*
A road treated in this way will shed
water off into the ditch. Water al|
ways seeks the easiest way toward the
: centre .of the earth, and finds it is a
1 good deal easier to slide off into the
ditch than it is to got down through,
| especially through puddled and almost
waterproof earth.
It is then up to you to get it out ol
the ditch. This can be done only by
| drainage, either natural or artificial.
Bear in mind that the drag will not
take water out of the ditch. Bear in
mind that it will not work on a road'
bed of pure sand because sand will not
stick together. If, however, you can
drag a good soil out of the ditch and
mix it with the sand, it will make a
very decent road. Neither will the
drag work in a mire hole where watei
stands during the summer season,
You will have a culvert for that, 01
otherwise drain it out.
Do not understand us to say that
this drag is a paneaca for all the ills
of bad roads. It will simply make
if property used, a good road out of ti
very t>ad earth road. A good road
must be hard aud smooth and ovalall
three at the same time. Tko drap
will,make it smooth and in time make
it oval. The tramping of the horses
on earth which has any considerable
percentage of clay in it will in time
mjike itJjanJ.
Bear in minU further that you can
not make a first class road by drag
ging the first time, the second time
nor the third. It will, however, makf
it a little better every time. It will
be better the second time than tin
first, the fifth than the second, and
the tenth than the fifth.?Wallace's
Farmer. Uy*
Embalming Perfector Dead.
Dr. Gannal, an embalming expert.
died in Paris in his seventy-eighth
year. His father was the chemist whe
invented the modem method of embalmment,
and who died in 1852. Dr,
Gannal improved upon his father's
process of injection to a remarkable
extent. He was the author of a notable
volume on real and apparent death.
The deceased also wrote a treatise on
burial and cremation, and contributed
numerous papers to scientific periodicals
on embalmments as practiced by
the Egyptians and other people, on
premature buries and kindred subjects.?London
*legraph.
(*?T Squirrel.
Gray squirra^generaliy four in a
nest, are born in ^larcli or early April.
They never venture forth from the
nest during the first month, and are attended
alone by the mother. She takes
this task upon herself from choice, and
does not allow another squirrel, even
lier own mate, to approach the nest
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' NOT FOR SALE. ,
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An Old Man's Wraith of ^flection Fot
j . Ills Son.
Tlio rann who had taken n fancy to
tlie old Maine farmhouse, surrounded
! l\v its acres of rolling green, sat on the
hack porch with the aged owner and
his housekeeper. As delicately as possible
he broached the subiect of sale.
He knew tiiat the fanner had a son in
New York who was prospering, and he g
mentioned this, the New York Sun
says, as an inducement for the old gen- j
tleraan to make the trade. _
The old farmer shook his head deter- c
niinedly. 0
"That's the very reason." he said, j
"that I don't want to sell. If it wasn't
for that boy I might be tempted to let *s
i * t> . yO.l nln/iA nt\
I lit* UJU Jfuar pw.
"It's this way," hp continued, in a ^
subdued tone. "Hp was born here. He {
went to school not more than three j
miles from here. He knows every path
in the woods. He has played all over
this ground as far as your eyes can see. '
"Just across the lield over there is
the family burying ground. His mother 1
and brother and sister are all there,
side by side.
"I guess you're right when you say
lie won't want to come back. He's got
to be quite a city man. and I never t
expect to see him come back here to n
live. Perhaps 'tisn't natural that he a
should. ],
"I haven't never asked him to come v
back, and I don't think I ever shall." jj
The old voice shook a little, then went f(
steadily on: "P.ut some of these days, ^
when he gets along where I am now, f,
maybe he'll get tired. a
"Of^ourse he'll have his own home in
the M.\ by that time, where he can sit t
do^i and take it easy. I hope so. ^
But after that it^nay be some consola- 0
tiuii to him to know that he'll be sent
back here?to lie beside mother and me |,
: and the others. That's why the farm ^
isn't for sale." - c
WORDS OF WISDOM.
i They that stand high have maqy
blasts to shake them.?ShakespCre.
Woll-gathoring wits never get to1
gether enough to make their any j,
cloth. <]
1 A man can trust God with his affairs e
when he remembers that he is God's a
' trustee. e
The will of God is soon forgotten c
when you get anxious about keeping b
the good will of men. b
, Some men are willing to pass the ^
: bag on Sunday so as to keep their J1
. | hands in for the week.
Every man may be born with his
feet in the dust, but he is born with a j
hrart that iongs for the Divine. ^
If you would be happy with your 0
? work you must make it a comrade ?
j and not a taskmaster.?Nonpareil. p
Faith is a noble thing: it soars high; r
It can read love in God's heart when p
' Ilis face frowns.?James Renwick. V
Cultivating the fruits of the spirit? P
l<*e, joy. peace, temperance?which e
are the different departments of the b
kingdom, is the most needed work in v
the world.?Mary McA. Tuttle. a
The face is made every day by Its
, morning prayer and by its morning b
t look out of the windows which open
upon heaven. All grace and noble- ?
ness grow as they are used for God
t in heaven and truth on earth.?Jospph ^
, Parker. * _
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I A KooV'a Impormnce in Kniilt,
People here are so accustomed to a
; regard Russia as an illiterate land that ''
they will probably surprised to learn a
1 that a popular l>ook at a low price has | "
hcoii known to reach a sale of 2,000,000 |
| copies within a few months of its ap- 1
poarance. Such is the avidity with *
which the Slav reader seizes upon *1
what appeals to him. u
' In no other country, moreover, have 0
' i writers been called upon to suffer for *
' their literary opinions as in Russia. r
The story of many of them is a veri1
table martyrdom. Novikoff, the first a
modern writer, whom the Metropolitan c
1 of Moscow termed "the best Christian n
' lie ever knew," was immured for fif- 55
leen years in the Schlusselberg. and t
came out a broken man. Labzin was T
imprisoned and exiled. Radischeff in c
exile ended his own life by suicide. r
Ryleef was hanged, with five other 11
1 lesser writers, by Nicholas I. Push- ?
' kin would have died in exile but for *
: being killed in a duel, and Lermontoff T
1 was also killed when in exile, at the 1
^ age of 8even-and-twenty. Odoevskly *
1 was condemned to 1000 strokes with t
I the bastinado and twenty-five years' ^
service in a penal regiment, and a simi
lar fate was reserved for Shevchenko.
Tlie list could be extended to cover a
page or two.?London Telegraph, j
, A Plagne of Allen Fll*?.
During the last few days millions of s
i fiies have made their appearance r
[ around Cardiff docks. James street, an c
- important thoroughfare. Is so beset that *
r pedestrian traftlc has been diverted to c
' other streets, rolicemen and dock cm- *
i ployes ^ere attacked so vigorously by r
? the flics that they were forced to take ^
.? shelter in the watch-houses, and shop- 1
keepers are complaining bitterly of the ?
harm done to their stock and trade. f
- The authorities state that the flies, j
, which are of a foreign species, with 1
> long bodies, crawling slowly and biting
I madly, first made meir appearance
> during a southerly wind on Sunday.?
1 London Mail.
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Where Living Comes High.
The Bullfrog Miner gives its readers
the following list of prices prevailing
- in that Nevada camp: Lumber, $130
1 per 1000; wood, $30 per cord: coal. $H0
* per ton; hay. $90 per ton; flour, $7.30
per cwt.; eggs, 00c. per dozen; bacon,
25c.; ham. 25c.; good steak. 30c. per
1 pound; potatoes. Sc. per pound: butter,
' 40c. per pound; sugar, 8 pounds for $1;
tea.* per pound, 00c.; coffee, per pound,
40c.; meals. 75c.; beds. $1 per night;
saddle horse, per day. $4; shave, 25c.;
haircut, 50c.; freight from railroad, 3c.
to 4c. per pound. ;
1 Coming Snares.
Most i" \ like women in quite plain
simple ? ikes. I suppose, on the
whole, s. . $ a writer in the London
World, m e conquests have been made
by girls in simple white frocks than
have even been made by those in
' elaborate confections; and a garden I
hat well managed, however old it may
be, or, better still, the sunbonnet,
which is said to be coming back to
favor, can be made a most dangerous
snare.
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POOR" SOIL FRUITFUL.
Do not bo deterred from having a
mall fruit garden because your soil is '
lot just what the books recommended. 1
L lot of nonsense has been written v
nd passed along concerning the criti- (
al tastes, about the soil they grow in, r
f different fruits and vegetables. ^
'ruits do have preferences, but they
re not nearly so particular in this re- '!
peet as many persons would try to
aake us believe. They have a 00111ortable
way of adapting themselves
o almost any kind of soil, provided it
s not very rocky, nor very shallow, '
mr very wet. If you do not have sat- "
<factory results with small fruits, it t
s much more likely to be your fault 1
ban the fault of the soil. *
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TTni T VTlOCT.'?
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Everybody knows that a "hardy pernnial"
is a plant that (lies down to
he ground every winter like a peony
ml conies up again in the spring for
n indefinite number of years* and
lost 'people know that there is a berildering
assortment of them, ranging
l height from two inches to three or
our feet. It is i) surprising fact that
liere are barely a dozen first-class perunials
that normally grow as high as
man and are suitable for the back of
border of hardy shrubs. The best of
hose are single hollyhocks. They
ave by far the greatest range of color
f any tall, hardy herbs and are hard;r
and more permanent than double
lollyhocks. They are biennial and
loom the second year, and sow thenielves
year after year all over the garen.
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BOX OR BARREL PACKAGE.
The question whether the box or the
arrel makes the best package for aples
and pears came again to u free
iscussion at the meeting of the Westrn
New York Horticultural Society
nd the New York State Fruit Growrs*
Association. It was generally
onceded that for ordinary fruit the
arrel is as yet the almost indispensale
and only package, while for choice
r fancy apples or pears the box is ofpu
found very profitable. Mr. WIN
ml stated that even so inconspicuous I
fruit as'tlie Winter Nells pear, eonisting
of course of well grown speci- 1
lens, all carefully wrapped in paper, (
as netted him, in boxes, at the rate s
f $11.50 per bushel in the English 1
aarkef. He also shipped weaituy ap- i
les to England in boxes and got good 1
eturns. The Winter Nelis was 1
raised both by Mr. Willard and Mr. i
niliatn C. Aarry. as a fine.winter !
ear, especially for family use. It is 1
asily grown. Nobody would be liu- <
le to steal it from the tree, but it de- <
elops fine qualities when it matures 1
fter being shipped. It is then of fine 1
pxture. melting and delicious.?Oklu- 1
oma Farmer 1
i
(ARRELS OR BOXES FOR APPLES 1
Would not consumption be doubled
' apples were put up in small pack*
ges like other fruits so the cousumr
could get them in the original packge?
If the advance in the price of
arrels is due, as many think it is, to
pool or trust, "and I will say there
re reasons for this belief," and there
5 plenty of timber, the remedy lies in
he apple growers of the couutry
brough the National Apple Growers' r
,'ongi.vss or some organization to put
machinery in operation cutting it into
ooperage. We are not assuming that :
here is any trust, but we notice each
eeurring year that barrels can be had
f we pay the advance in price. It is ]
t.l I
question. nowever, 11 we cuuiu s?r- .
ure barrels at twenty-five cents cacli i
gain, whether it is the package wc <
hould use. We are of the opinion that 1
he extended distribution in a retail i
ray necessary for the consumption of <
ur large apple crops cannot be i
cached by the use of the barrel. It <
nay be said that for storage and ex- <
fort trade we will have to use barrels,
f only barrels are used for this it
rould relieve the barrel situation that <
nuch. Still would not a case holding
lalf a barrel in use be more satisfacory
for storage and export??G. T.
Tippin, in National Fruit Grower.
REAL MAPLE SUGAR.
The Department of Agriculture's
Jureau of Forestry is trying to revive
ind extend the production of maple
ugar. As persons of middle age can
emember, maple sugar was formerly
ibtalned from the sap of maple trees.
Cow it is usually compounded of glu ose,
brown cane sugar, extract of
lickory bark and other substances eatable
of more or less plausible disguise.
The Bureau of Forestry considers it a
noderate statement to say that seven ights
of all the maple sugar and syrup
tn the market are counterfeit. It
hinks that the production of the genune
article can be' made profitable
hroughout the Northern States aud
lown as far as the mountains of Eastern
Tennessee and Western North Car)!ina.
Its investigations show that a
farmer can easily clear $3 per acre,
ind usually more, from a sugar grove
>n land that would be useless for any
>ther purpose. At the same time this
industry would help to preserve forest
conditions. The bureau believes that
the producers can push pure goods into
the market at a little higher price
than is now paid for adulterated articles
by forming associations, adopting
registered trade-marks carrying absolute
guarantees of quality and. if necessary.
selling direct to the consumers
instead of to the middlemen who
are responsible for the preseut* conditions.?Collier's
Wekly.
Why Washington Wan Flr?t.
The class In history was discussing
the cruel conduct of King George and
the consequent revolution among the
colonists in America. The teacher had
just ended a very interesting discourse
and then asked who was the first President.
"George Washington," said the whole
class at once.
"Why was he chosen?"
"Because Roosevelt wasn't borr .
then." said a little five-year-old.?Al-1
bany Journal. !
^HOSTSEHQLD !
jjgRn^rrAms
TOrflTION FOR A BED.
There nre two good rules on the
?roper position of a bed. It should
lever be placed against the wall,
vhere there is often an imperceptible
lampness. It should never stand in a
ecess or corner where there is not a
onstant circulation of fresh air. Dull
leadaches in the morning can nearly
ilwnys be traced to sleeping in a bed
ar from a window.
TO REMOVE COAL OIL SPOTS.
Accident- will happen but they often
ead to valuable experience. Not long
tgo I dropped a kerosene lamp conaining
a pint of jil and the entire
ontents were spilled on the carpet. I
nimediately covered the spot made by
he oil with buckwheat flour and
icrubbed it into the carpet with a
ourse brush. I then swent it un and
>ut on a fresh supply,"which I rubbed
n as before. The third time I left
he flour on over night and in the inornng.
when after another scrubbing
vith a clean, dry orush I swept it up,
lot even a trace of the kerosene remained
and ray carpet is as good as it
vas before the accident.?Mrs. D. D
rt'illiams, in The Epitoraist.
FL ATI RONS.
The flatirons must always be per'ectly
clean, and it is best to scour them
?ich time they arc used; by doing it
bus frequently they are kept clean
vith very little work, while if neglect?d
they are constantly doing poor work
soiling the clean clothes, and a long
scouring when they are cleaued. After
hey are washed and scoured each
veek, place on the stove tc dry thorMighly
and then slip each oue into a
ittle bag made with drawstrings for
he purpose, or, at least, slip each one
nto an empty paper bag to keep clean'
'rom dust till they are used again. A
ag dipped in kerosene and salt is ex ellent
for smoothing the bottom of
in iron; or sprinkle some salt between
ayers of waxed paper like that used
'or lining cracker boxes, which should
)e saved for the purpose.
FLOWERS FOR THE HOUSE.
Flowers may be moved in full bloom
.'rom the garden to the yard or house.
For instance, take an ordinary pine
x>x, say two feet by three, six or
>lght inches deep. Fill with nice, rich
soil, thoroughly dampened. Tak# up
:he plants with as much dirt adberng
as possible, and set in the box,
3rraing#the dirt around the roots. Fill
the box full of plants in full flower,
md of different kinds. When done,
iprinkle thoroughly, just like they
tiad been in a hard rain. Let drain,
;Iean off, and move into the house,
ir wherever yon may wish them, and
they will not wilt, but will keep on
blooming?a veritable portable flower
bed. Keep well watered. Be sure that
the soil is well packed in the box. If
mulched with exceisior or clean chafT,
ill the better.
Banana Salad?Make a strong lemon
Jelly, omitting sugar. Mould this in a
ring mould, and when quite firm till
the hollow with sliced bananas mixed
with a cream mayonnaise. If the jelly
Is colored with spinach green the salad
will be the more attractive.
Baked Halibut ?Purchase' three
pounds of fish and see that it is cut
In two inch strips. Remove the skin
and squeeze the juice of two lemons
over the fish and add a good sprinkling
of pepper and salt. Allow it to
stand thus for an hour, after which
[lip in melted butter, dredge with flour
and bake thirty minutes. When done,
dust the top with grated hard boiled
eggs and garnish with parsley. Serve
with white sauce.
Old-Time Buns?Mix to a stiff batter
three cups of milk, one of sugar, a
yeast cake (or cup of yeast, as it used
to be), and the necessary quantity of
flour. Mix at noon and allow the batter
to rise until night, then add a cupful
of sugar, one of currants, one. of
mntnmm a teasDoonful of soda, one of
nutmeg, one-half teaspoonful of cinnamon,
the same of ground cloves. Mix
again to a stiff batter, set to rise over
night, make Into shapes and when
baked wash the tops with raw egg.
Stuffed Green Peppers?Cut a small
piece off the stem end of the peppers,
or cut them In two lengthwise, removing
the seeds and partitions. Boil
them for five minutes, drain, and fill
with three Bermuda onions cooked tender,
chopped and mixed with a tablespoonful
of miuccd parsley, a scant
cupful of breadcrumbs, a few drops
of lemon juice, salt, cayenne, a little
celery salt and two tablespoonfuls of
mushroom catsup. Bake the stuffed
peppers in a shallow pan in < : hot oven,
basting frequently with melted butter.
Jellied Cutlets?Put the best end of a
neck of lamb in a saucepan with an
onion, some bay leaves, pepper and
salt, see the lid is fixed rn tightly, and
set over the fire to braise until quite
tender. Take out and when quite cold
cut into meat cutlets. Put some gelatine
or some isinglass in some stock,
and color a nice dark brown, dip the
cutlet in this and put on one side until
cold. Arrange them in ti e middle of a
men nnii nut round some chopped let
tuce and tomatoes cut in slices on the
tep.
Colors Birds Don't Like.
Red will annoy a turkey-cock as
muck as a bull, but a sparrow will not
let it disturb its mind. But if one
shakes a blue rag in front of a caged
sparrow's eyes he will go frantic with
disgust. Sparrows and linnets, too,
will refuse food offered them on a
piece of blue paper, and dislike the appearance
of any one wearing a blue
dress. Medium light blue affects them
most, but blue serge they scarcely mind
at all. Thrushes and blackbirds object
to yellow, but will use red or blue dried
grass left about their huuuts to build
.the outer layers of their nests. Yellow
Igrasses they will not use. ? Chicago
JournaL
3MH1H
SUNDAY, JULY 30. ',
Missions in Japan. Micah 5: 2, 4,
12, 13.
Christ has always been; Ruler^
Christianity is wonderfully influejf"
t'ial in the parliament of Japan.
Christianity, becoming great "to ?
the ends of the earth"?the antipodes
of the place where it started?has
come back around the world again to
make the great Asiatic nations among
which it started.
Much of pagan religion is mere
witchcraft, anid all witchcraft ls|
based upon fear, and ic therefore
conquered by the gospel of love and
trust.
That men will worship even the V~
work of their own hands is proof
that the roligious instinct 'is innate
in the human heart, it is God-given.
Mission Notes from Japan.
There are in Japan over 50,000
Protestant Christians. \
Twenty-five Protests: t bodies have v
missions in Japan, and of these the V
Presbyterians and Congregationalism \
have the largest number of converts?
11,500 each, and also the largest number
of self-supporhng churches, 34
and 23 respectively
Baron Maejima, an ex-cabinet officer,
recently declared, "I am convinced
that the religion of Christ is
the one most full of strength and
promise for the nation."
An admiral and chief justice have
been vice-presidents of the Y. M. C.
A. of Japan, and its president the
president of the lower house of the
J?n?nesa ?ill fthHsftans.
THe seven Presoyienau denominations
at work in Japan are all united;
so are the four Episcopal bodies, and
the Lutherans and the six Methodist
denominations have also agreed upon
a plan for union.
A Japanese wife refused to perform
some disagreeable manual labor for
her husband, and he at once
vorced her; but the courts upheld her\
~1""u ? nf nrnoTAgfl
ngi*?a 5i?i -- ?---0 v.j_
In Japan. fsj?
One of the most beautiful of recent vj
converts in Japan is a woman who
from birth has been able to move
no part of her body but her head;
but she uses her mouth for Christ,
and conducts prayers in her ward of
the hospital.
The Protestants of Japan are about
one in a thousand of the population,
but the Protestant members of the
National House of Representative#
are more than one in a hundred.
In Japan "public schools of the
higher institutions of learning now
close on Sunday, as do also the offices
for Kgular government busk
ness."
EwWeraor
SUNDAY, JULY THIRTIETH. ?
Missions in Eastern Asia.?Psa. 22.
27, 28; Jer. 16. 19
Our Scripture selections are pro
phecies concerning the conversion of
the Gentiles to Christ and have special
reference to modern missionary
operations. Our selection from
psalms is one of the Old Testament
expressions foretelling Messiah's uni- <
versal reign. This is being speedily
fulfilled as the great nations of
heathenism are being permeated with
gospel influence. Jeremiah's prophetical
prayer for the heathen has the
same interpretation. The nations will
repudiate the supersltitions of heathenism
and accept the gospel of
Christ.
Eastern Asia is a term which Is
<1ocil<mafo r?nr Missions in.
China, Korea, and Japan. It should
possibly take in our work in the
Philippine Islands, but they are emy- N
braced in our Malaysian work, which
is under the Southern Asia work.
The field embraces the five great
Conferences in China with her four
hundred millions?the Foochow, the
Hinghua, the Central China, the North
China, and the West China Mission.
It takes In also the two Conferences
in Japan?the Japan and the South
Japan. It also embraces the Korean
Mission.
The China Mission was begun in
1847 by Revs. Judson D. Collins and
Moses C. White. They began at
Foochow, and from their work it has
spread to nearly every part of the <
empire. The Foochow Conference em- J,
braces the Fukien Province, and was T
organized into a Conference in 1877.
The Hinghua Mission Conference includes
two perfectures of the Fukien '
Province, and was opened in 1864 and
organized as a Conference in 1896.
The Central China Mission was begun
in 1867 by workers from the
Foochow, and set apart as a Mission
in 1869. It Includes Central China
with headquarters at Nanking. North
China Conference includes the northern
Drovinces of Shantung and Hohan.
Work was begun in 1869, and the Conference
was organized in 1893. The
West China Mission is in the western
part of the empire, the farthest removed
to all Missions from the United
States. It was opened in 1881.
Work was begun in Japan by our
church in 1873. Dr. Maclay founded
the Mission. The work in the northern
part was organized into a Conference
In 1884. Work was begun in
Nagasaki in 1873 by Dr. Davidson,
which was organized into a Mission
Conference in 1898. This South Japan
Conference embraces the southern
one of the four larg.; islands of the
empire and Formosa.
Remedy for Heart Trouble.
The Optimist, organ of the "Nolens
Volens" colony at Jackson, prints a
cut of the prison. In the dome of
tho main huildine is shown open wia^..
dows In the highest portion. The oc- \
companying comment narrates that
many years ago a prisoner attempted
his liberty by means of a rope down
which he was sliding when the cord
parted and he fell, first to the roof of v. ;
the central building, then, bounding \
from thence, hit the top of the cell '
block, where he acquired sufficient
elasticity to land him on the ground. JH
These unexpected incidents confused
him and he was captured. Singularly
the misfortune of his failure was not
unmitigated. He had been so afflicted
with heart disease as to be unable
to lie down for months. The fall
knocked it completely out of him and
he was enabled thereafter to "sleep
like a top." The Optimist cheerfully
invites the palpitating public to come
and try the remedy.?Detroit Tribune.
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