People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1893 — The April Wide Awake [ARTICLE]

The April Wide Awake

has a gossipy, descriptive sketch of quaint old Williamsburg, a reminder of the Colonial days of Virginia, writtea by Edwin A. Start, and illustrated by Louis A. Holmon. It opens with “The Tansy Cake,” a story-sketch of an oldtime English Easter happening, by IL Carrie Hyde, also an American Eastertide story of Creole life, “How the Lilies Work,” by Kate Chopin. Louise Chandler Moulton has an April “Readel,” and Theron Brown an Easter poem, “The April Child.” Frederick A. Ober contributes his fourth “Columbus” sketch, telling of Isabella, “the first city in the New World;” Agnes Blackwell tells a delightful wonder story about “Willie and the Treedeedle;’’ Abd el Ardavan has a Moorish story of a brave boy, “Ebno’l Amed;” Sarah Winter Kellogg gives a glimpse of life in New Mexico “In the Delegate’s Placets;” Mary Catherine Crowley contributes a capital Indian story, “Jeff’s Strange Adventure.” Theserials by Stddary, Molly Elliott Seawell and Mrs. Jenness are full of interest. Price 20 cents a number, 82.40 a year. On sale at news stands or sent postpaid, on receipt of price, by D. Lothrop Company, Publishers, Boston. He—“ Are you fond of dancing!” She—- “ Yes, a minuet or—” He —“Oh, I can dance for hours without feeling weary.”—lnter Ocean. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company has recently purchased ten thousand acres of coal lands at and around its station of Toluca, in Marshall County, Illinois, and is now sinking its coal shafts and putting in machinery to develop this great coal field, which is to furnish the fuel supply for its system in Illinois, lowa and Missouri, as well as a vast amount of mercantile coal for manufacturing and domestic purposes. The new town site of Toluca is being surveyed and platted by the Santa Fe Land Department to meet the demand for building lots, which the employment of a large force of miners and other employes has necessarily created. The utter recklessness of bacilli in regard to what becomes of them has been demonstrated by the discovery of them in boarding house butter.—N. Y. World.