Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1889 — Page 2

£lie grpnblicnn, Gxo. E. Marshall, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - INDIANA

That New Hampshire farmer who permitted two eastern highwaymen to rob him of $9,000 is respectfully reminded that a few of those desirable western mortgages are still to be had. The Niagara whirlpool may turn out to bo simply a slightly turbulent mill—race. A young man with a cork jacket went through it unscathed. Who will be the first to shoot the falls in a canoe? ■ \\OKSV>THIESY.S MS liC'ffi w:l') leniently in Woodbury. N. J. The tint who recently, took Rev. Samuel Hudson’s team out of the stable got <>J with thirty-day Sentences for disorder-I ly conductAt the Vanderbilt ••barn }>:i“.y" in Newport not long ago, a polo pony w::introduced in the Virginia reel. Thn might suggest the introduction of a mustang in munny-mr.sk. ora pig-ln-as poke in the polka.

John Caki>W!l.i.ei;, an lowa welldigger, claims to have fotin.l at the bottom of one of his diggings a piece of rock on which the si .rstaihT strip xs are. distinctly formed. ' It is not. reportedwhether or not the ' finderhits counted the .stars, . the eleetctetens who gravely doubt that an electric current, no matter how strong, will kill a man, have gone out and taken hold of a live wire carrying a current of 1,000 volts to back their doubts. Talk is not only cheap, but reasonably safe. The editor of a weekly pipcE in Germany’ poked fun at Bismarck for h iving knuckled down to the Unit'd States in the Samoan affair, and . now the editor sits in jail on a year’s sentence and wonders if there is not such a thing as being altogether too funny for any thing. Tok years a Springfield, Muss., horse suffered from a sore shoulder. A veterinary surgeon made, a elo.-e examination of the shoulder and found a 25-cent silver piece deeply imbedded in the .flesh, How the coin got there-is ' a mystery. No driver ever suspected that the horse was carrying three bits. A Troy shirt m n predicts that in ’ less than ten years there, will boa gen- ■ eral return to the old-fashioned shirt I which buttor.eti in front, and from which at least one button was missing after every wash. If that were assured the average man would lay in a large . stock of shirts of the present style at once. The bishop of Marseilles has issued a formal protest against the circular issued by the French minister of justice, in which tho minister reminded the clergy that they are prohibited by law from taking part in elections. The bishop affirms the rights of priests to intervene in elections and other politi- . cal affairs. v't'.' . ' —3=^— ■■■ = The average white man who lives to be 70 years old has spent over a year of his life in shaving and two months on top pf that in getting his hair cut. This is where the Indian is along ways ahead. He hasn’t any whiskers, and they say he lets the coyotes chaw his hair off when it getsidcnrntohis toms* - Theodore Kamensky, the talented Russian sculptor, has become an instructor in the American artschool at New York. lie came to America because he thought his art would nourish more readily in the political atmosphere of a republic. Russia is not a land in which tho lowly are encouraged to hopeful effort. When Stone, of the New England Ax Company, turned out to be an embezzler and an absconder, the president of the company exclaimed: “Why. he has been with us for thirty years and has always been honest.” Thirty years of honesty is no proof in this day and age.. Even an Ohio man 92 years of age is under arrest for his first steali

An admirable benefit organiztion has come into existence nmonj teachers in Boston, providing against the impecunious or laborious old ago too often unavoidable in that hard-worked’ and ill-paid calling. The plan involves “the nay men t of an entrance fee of $3 and small annual assessments varying according to the salary received. The price of a swear word has been officially fixed in Chambersburg, Pa. A pugilist oaths hand running, and he was fined sixtyseven cents for each of those profane exclamations. This is rather a low price for an oath when it is remembered that some of the dams which broke away last spring cost thousands of dollars. If the preponderance of expert opinion goes for anything, wheat will showL* f4sieg -tendefley until the next crop is made. Here and . there a contrary view is expressed, but most of those who have male tho subject a study think that the old crop is much more nearly exhausted than was the former crop at the samo time last year and that Europe must buy more larrrelv.

THE SOUTH POLE.

What is Known About That Mysterious and Fascinating E?gion. ; Earning Mountains Shut in by Barriers of lee—Discoveries ‘by the DifferentExpe- ru" ditlons. ‘ Three expeditions to tho South Pole are under discus.-imi, -and have been mofe or less determined upon. England has one under consideration, the French scientists are urging their government to take up the matter, and the Germans of Hamburg, with Villard as their -American agent. have been curd■■.•mp.lm.iu .4 w-i'.wkkwg down a body of explorers to the mysterious regions of the Antarctic circle. I A general revival of interest in this I comiinr.ilively- m-glecled portion <>:' the globe seems to be promised, and the 11 me—seems to be at hand when the existence of a great antarctic conli-iT.-iit. -the— magnetic conditions of the. : .south and the relative flatness of the cifi't'i at that point will bj definitely settlcd. It was supposed by the old' geographers that in order to balance the continents of the north, the .Southern...ord Antarctic. Ocean ought to nave sound ’great continents likewise; ami. for two’’ hundred years or so. occasional woy-1 ages were made, in the hope of.discovering some such stretches of dry land. Juan Fernanda/, more than 300 years ago; readied: a,- plemwm-t, ts : now supposed to have been New land, but then he was 3,04) miles distant from the south pole. Twenty years later a Dutch -w ha lor Was driven, by a storm so far as the high Snowy islands, now known as the South tSlict- .. lands, pearly duo south of Cape Horn. About t]>e beginning of the following century Be Qturns, searching about for the southern continent, lighted upon BHeniim's Island arid the now Hebrides, and many other islands contimrqd to bo found in the vast southern sea bythe storm-driven mariners and hardy explorers steering straight ■ for sonre~~ thing new. It remained, however, for Capt. Cook to tic.it, penetrate the Antarctic circle, although all he did was

to sight the shore® of Sandwich Land, Great things had been expected from this vdyagcty and the report was so disappointing that the geographers thereupon removed from their maps the term oJ Terra Aiisti-.i 1 i.i. Navigators, however, coitinuefl still to believe in the.existence of this southern land, and in the beginning of the present century one of them discovered the4*tnith Orkneys. Then the governments of Europe and our own took a h nd hi the matter and sent out expeditions of discovery. 1 lie United States expedition was placed in charge of Lieut. Wilkes, his instructions being to pusltr as= far—sdutiu_M.A4iat§ifele Altogether the fleet of exploration was absent four years, during which much ocean was explored for the first time and a number of small islands set down on the charts. Wilkes claimed at first to have discovered an antarctic continent, but it was afterward found to be Adele Land. Then camo the expeditions under Sir James Ross, which left England in 1839 and .did not see it again until 18-13.* After passing the Cape of - Good Hope - Ross and his men remained for two months on Kerguelen’s Island—discovered in 1772 - then proceed to Tasmania and then pushed on for the south. He first sighted large, compact icebergs in latitude 63 q . four degrees farther south bringing him to the edge of the pack, a vast field of hummock ice extending over an unknown number of miles. The men were supplied with extra warm clothing, and preparations were made for dashing through the floe ice and hammocks at points where the more solid pack could bo avoided. Steering boldly but cautiously through huge masses of ice, and experiencing „altt2rmit^Joa^4urd,. suttshine, they at- 1 length espied" real til nd~in^th'e~^ : ni.pd ntr two magnificent ice-capped mountains, each extending 7.000 feet in hight, with glaciers filling in the intervening valleys. On dry land near these mountains, after many struggles. Sir James Ross hoisted the Britlisb Hag. and named the place Victoria Land, being then about 1,300 miles from the South Pole and 1,800 due south of New Zealand. Further inland other magnificent ice-covered mountains could be seen, soaring to tv hight of 12.000 or 14,000 feet, thus far exeeediag anything known in the Arctic regions. Still coasting the shore. Ross pushed farther sO’ifth until lie had reached the 76th degree of south latitude, the South Pole’ being then about 1,009 miles distant. The two loftiest mountains continued Well in sight all during this journey, and i were named after the ships Erebus and Terror. Erebus was esteemed to be 12,0’H.) feet■' high and was an active vblcanb, wbllW'TWhaM^vas'"either extinct or temperorarily quiet.—— (In one partie alar afternoon Mount Erebus was observed to emit smoke and flame. in unusual quantities, producing. a mosu.grand spectacle. A volum ' of de isd sin >ke was projected at each successive jet with great force in a verlic'e column ton hightof between 1.509 and 2.000 feet above the mouth nf the crater, wh n condemd-ng first at its upper part,' it descended in mist nd snow and- giyidruiUy I.disappeared. to be succeeded by another xploudid- oxhibi-tiott-of -the- same kind in about half ;m hour afterward. i The results of all these expeditions ! have now to lie considered. What do iwe know of the South Pole? In the Hirsi .place wmknow that aabady has I got within77lW in*"Bodmilesvof it. Ross | tptirhed the seventy-eighth parallel of Jimi ale. and in all probability no human being has ever made a nearer l approach to ifio South Pole, but tiiis is bless by 30'1 or t'O miles th in the ap- ! ptotmh whigh has been made to the I Norf h Pole. [, In the se ond place, the extent of a possible Antarctic continent has shrunk so by each succeeding ex-.-ploraxioft that it is certain that even 1 does such ;l continent exist, it cannot .be more than 1.6'30 or 1,800 miles in I measurement cither way. ' In the third place theseinlands, that Eave been discovered are of com para-

tively small extent, and there is little doubt That the great southern seaswhich lie within the triangulation of Cape' Horn, the Cape of Good Hope j and Tasmania-extend unbroken by tiny considerable archipelago ole it* up to the 65th degree of south latitude. I This vast expanse of deep ocean offers |a source of danger to ih<- explorer • which is unknown, in the high n<irt!> ' era latitudes. currents m.d ‘ winds have, to le borne that are of ' a power by no means easy, to cope I with. On one—occasion when Hoss ; was becalmed for a few hours. r the ' dead set of the ocean waves drafted 1 the ships toward a range of huge ’feebergs, against which the sea brok > wi'lt appalling violence. “Every eye ; was trunsliixed with the tremendous' spectacle, and destruel.ion r.ppjaretl inevitable.’" i The ships were thus driven eight\w>\wsxvw'W w'hV.in hat! a mile of the gigtrr.tic icebergs, when a gentle air began to stir and the peril i was averted; I In the next pl ace it has been di—-’ covered that the climat.s of tii; s 5 iern ocean is sometimes a . pec.uliariy ■ disagreeable one. In the ver./ utiddktj of t.ie Antarctic summer there ui!-;’ Lj^p.asidigL_:._4mia , eii.ts^-Xliick—fi>g,s 7 aiwl , gales to be encountered,' and this in no higher, latitude G«te'. in the next plucd tiic ice barrier that seems to shut, out exploration of the polar hinds is of a peculiarly for-. hi.ldigg de>c’<i)t;on. So far as it, has i been skii'te.;.! it is an inaccessible, uu- ■ brol.-. n wail of ice. That land does exist within this, cliff of frozen snow ~.tbxir!i.is.nlso,no-;doiibt. "The existenee-. of volca.hic peaks and chains of mount'dns of enormous liight show this: ■ bnteso- fai- as-rt has hexmTseeil"ttrnTtrnrrt J is covered with snow al all seasons;i'ito' human being has been met with be-' yotiii 5G -. of -Lat itudo; no vegetable growth, except lichens, has been seen beyOhd;oß°, and no land quadruped is known to c.’<i.->t beyond 66©, | Lastly it has been found that between ! the northern. and southern lights there 1 arc some striking points of difference that tend to prove pilferent magnetic conditions. The electrical display at, both poles oeeTirs simultaneously and ’ seems to- correspond on tm immense ’ SO'le with the discharges from the! pp;gsttivezTrod”JtbgiiUfvb poles of t biitiery, . Much more has been conjectured concerning this mysterious region, 1 but. the irbove is iuxtau.infi.of all that i- | actually known coneorning it. —Stiti ; Francisco Ghroniele.

Well-Pad Evangelists.

TJiepay evangelists receive is very small.when it is remembered howyexIjausting' and responsible''their work is, says Ben Deering, of St Lduis. I mean .the . .oi'dinary_ -erangcli&l=the man who is without it National reputation. 'I have preached in a Missouri (own for a week and crowded the church four times a day, receiving only S6O at the end of 'my work. Of course, Ttre^nrnigeitstS'^Avlte6®-^feiße ; -4&'9pread" over tho whole country make more money than this, but even their pay is nothing like what it is made by extravagant popular stories. Harrison, the boy preacher, is always in demand, and changes $lO a day for his services, whether he is engaged for a week or a month. He is worth about $60,000. Moody makes no charge for his services, but he is paid much better than Ha rrisou. His two wvelrb prcachlng' in St.- Louis made him SI,OOO. He is worth about $90,000. Sim Jones is the best paid man of them all, but he gives away so much money that he is not wealthy, For nearly a month’s work in Kansas City he got $3,000 and Sam Small got sl. UIK). St. Jon paid Jones $1,500 for two weeks. I gave him SI,OOO for his week at Culver Park camp-mectiug this snmmer, lie is worth about $30,000. all of his money befog invested in Georgia property. He maintains a camp-mceting ttibernacle near his home, where he holds a two weeks’" revival every year. He pays all the expenses of the preachers ..who-come, and.. .they amount to a good ,Lla..,.nexer . makes a fixed charge for bis work, Sam Small has come into great demand as a campaign Prohibition orator, and is now stumping Dakota. He is being paid $75 a day and his traveling expenses.

That Odious Old Shah.

The shah gave an infinity of trouble at Vienna. The London Truth says th t after the first state dinner he suddenly started from his seat at the table and rushed out of tho room, and tho Archduchess Elizabeth, who represented the empress, had literally to chase him, in order that they might enter the saloon together at the head of the guests. At tho Schonbrunn Menagerie the kitig of kings diverted himself by knocking at the more savage : ninials with a stick, which threw them into transports of fury, uinlat the imperial Inmjuet he kept the Emperor waiting for twenty minutes. On the last evening of his stay the Persian minister gave a reception and supper, but to tho horror of the trembling diplomatist thb shah positivel.v refused to see any of the guests, insisting on taking his meal apart, in the company of Hittle Aziz, who created a disturbance on the night of the gala performance at the theatre, as, deeming himself to have been ihSulted by one of the court functionaries, ho screamed, stamped -his foot and bawled, “*l/(c diable, bctc. *.;•

A Substitute.

A lady who is opposed to corporal punishment visited a Boston school where tim rod was beiug appljed. Before going away she said a lew words to the offender, and asked him to cotnc and see hbr on a certain evening, promising that her d ing'iter should sing and play to him. He said he would come, and at the appointed time a boy dressed in his be-1 w-ts ushered into her parlor, and for an hour or more; his kind entertainers devoted themselves to his enjoyment. Afterward the older lady took him one side and began to speak of the importance of g.>.»l behavior -and OWiehce to rules, when she was interrupted with: “Oh, I ain’t that fellar! He gin me ten cents .to cum ImAid w l>itn. IJ *-Texw Siftings.

MATTERS OF LAW.

Recent Decisions of the Indian 3 Supreme Court. I ’ (1) Section 2,097, R. S., 1881, creates and fully defines the offense of keeping a disorderly liquor shop, and an indictment Charging the offense is sufficient if it follows the language of the statute. (2) Under said statute i 1 is an offense to keep a disorderly liqour shop “to the annoyance or injury of any part of the citizens of the State.” In this case persons claiming to have been disturbed by the manner in which appellant's saloon was kept testified that they resided in the town where the saloon was and near .

the satloea. hat none iestitfed in direct terms that they were citizens of the State. Held: That the jury were authorized to infer that they were ‘ -citir zens” within the meaning of the statute, (3) The appellant had a right to show, after laying the proper foundation, that a witness for the prosecution had told a person that “ail the i rest of us are going to swear” to a cer-ni ■ tain state of things, “and you just : stqp up there and say the same, slate of things.” I The appellant was tried before a Justice of the Peace and convicted on a charge of being found in a public place in a state of intoxication. He appealed, to the Circuit Court and there filed an answer alleging that he 1 was tried twice before the Justice on said’ charge, prior to his third trial and conviction; that upon each trial the cause was , submitted to a jury: that each time the Justice, without his consent, discharged the jury after they had been deliberating less than three hours, and that there was no physical reason for their discharge. The Justice’s record recites that he had become satisfied that there was no reasonable probability that the jury would agree upon a verdict. Field: That no abuse of discretion on the part of the Justice is shown, and that the Circuit Court erred in holding the mswer good. (1) The appellee, who was indebted to one Archer upon a promissory note, was summoned as garnishee in an attachment proceeding brought by appellants against Archer. Archer had assigned the note before the attachment proceeding was commenced, but appellee did not know the fact. Judgment was rendered against appellee, but it is alleged that it was void for want of jurisdiction. Appellants promised the appellee that if he would pay the judgment they would repay him in case the note had been, iissigncd, and he had to pay it again,'ArppelleFSlH not have to pay the note t<> the holder by assignment. Held;. The.t appellants are liable to him for the_ amount received—from him. (2) The erroneous admission of harmless, evidence is not available for the re-’ versal of the judgment. The appellant was indicted for assault and battery with intent to commit murder. The charging part of the indictment is as follows: That one George Jenkins, late of said county, on the 3d day of February, 1889, at said county and State aforesaid, did then and there unlawfully, in a rude, insolent and angry manner, touch Charles Wells, with the intent then and there him, the said Charles Wells, feloniously, wilfully [willfully], purposely and' with premeditated malice, to kill and murder, contrary,” etc. On motion of the defendant, the Court quashed all that part of the indictment relating to the felonious intent charged. Held: That the Court erred. The indictment is good. It was not necessary that the word ‘‘thereby ” or some word equivalent thereto, should have followed the word “touch.” (I.) Where real estate is sold under the order of a court having no jurisdiction, the sale is void, and if the purchasers take possession their possession is wrongful, and they may be ejected by. the persons having title, if a proceeding is brought for that purpose within twenty years; but if possession is held adversely under said purchase for twenty years, title is acquired and an action for possession, is barred. (2) Where a complaint for partition puts the title to the real estate in issue, the judgment rendered in that proceeding is binding upon the parries thereto and is conclusive as to ■ the interests and titles of the parties. | Under section 41 of the descents act-, as amended by the act of April 13. 1885, an-election by a widow not to Ikt ©under the will of her deceased husband, but to t;V e under the la w. is of no effect units., made in writing ■ within one year, as in said statute provided. The facts that the widow ' was ignorant of the stnttitory provision, and had made an election in fact by taking possession of tho share she would be entitled to receive under the Maw, make no difference unless she ' was prevented by fraud or contrivance ' from making a statutory electron. 1 (1) Tho office of a description is net ■ to identify the land, but to furnish the -means-of iderrtilieat-um- uiui Ahxa daifo. in a mortgage, the deserfption is not. void, for IBSt which can’ be foade <■<■.'- tain is certain. (2) In a suit by the -fjftttaty Auditor as a relator to fqreteloso a eehool fund mortgage, he is not a party in interest within the meaning of the statute prohibiting parties from testifying as witnesses where heirs or administrators are parties. A party who sues in tho Circuit or S :uc;- -> for a moncy-denrand on contract add recovers less than SSO is liable for costs unless the judgment hasliebn. reIacITBiSTSW SSO by a setoff or counter claim. ——

RAUM SUCCEEDS TANNER.

An Illinots Man Appointed Pension tom- < inißSioner. The President Saturday appointed. General Green B; Baum, of Illinois, to be Commissioner of Pensions. General Raam was sworn in at noon. He is a prominent member of the G. A. R. [Greep Berry Raum was born in GoT eouda, Pope county. His.. December 3’ 1829. He received a edmmon school education, studied law and was'admitted‘to the bar in 1853. In 1856 he removed with his family to Kansas and at once affiliated with the Free State party. Becoming obnoxious to the pro-slavery faction, he returned the following year to Illinois and settled at Harrisburg. At the opening of the civil war he made his fiist speech as a u-ajte -attending eeart at Metropolis, 111.

Subsequently he entered the army as Major of the Fifty-sixth Illinois Regiment, and was promoted Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel and Brevet Brigadier-General. He was made Brigadier-General of Volun 1 teers. February 16, 1865, but resigned his ' commission May 6. He served under Gen- > eral Rosecrans in the Mississippi campaign :of 1862. At Corinth he ordered and led the : charge that broke the Confederate left and captured a battery. He was with Grant at Vicksburg and was wounded at Missionary Ridge in 1863. In October, 1864, he reinforced Reseca, Ga,, and held it against General John B. Hood. In 1866 he became President of Jhe Cairo & Vincennes railroad. 32—• ’ —=* ’. . I He was elected to Congress and served from March JfitSffiynnttrM&CffS, 1569. In 1876 he presided over the t lllinois Republican Convention, and the same year was a delegate to the National Convention of the party at Cincinnati. He waszappointedby General Grant Commissioner of Internal Revenue, August 2, 1876, in office.until May of 1883: In that time he collected $850,000,000. Ho wrote reports for his bureau forseven years successively. He is author of “The Existing Conflict between Republican Government and Southern Oligarchy” (1884.) He has been practicing law in Washington. since ratiring . from office, which be did by resignation.]

The Difference Dress Makes to a Girl.

Minnie was IG. She wore girlish frocks reaching down to her ankles only, but to make up for the juvenile shortage of the skirts the bodices came always up to her chin and had sleeves to her wrists. Hcr hair hung in :: braid and she had the aspect of an immature .maiden. . Her manners . were.,.corres. io'.uliugly free and innoebnt. IShe liad a rather audacious cousin Jack who took all r.uinncr of liberties' with her, within ti.c bounds of purity. '1 hey •were-o ff 'lmttffi" fanri-ltar : t nd’~nff?ctioTrrrtp I with each other. One day Jack .called itt the house. On departing he tonic* JHinnie up in his arms, carried her to the front. liail.vay and kissed her good afternoon. There were several witnesses ami nan? of us thought anytiiing of tlr: little event. Nor did thegirl. She had her arm around Jack’s .neck, while ho ctfried” her. for fear of l.iiti!;;;. min wT<h no bhov, of cither liking or disliking- the mutua; hug. She Peitlier dodged noi- invited his kiss, but accepted it as beedi ‘ssl\»ws though it had been given by m-. Well, that same evening. Jack and Minnie, went with older member.s <)I the family to a ball. Minnie, for the. first time in her life, wore the long skirts of an adult. Besides, her hair vhis done "up in an jraposliig-- coiffure, her open corsage her fair.- taper arms werts; hare to the tops of her dimpled shoulders. I was with her in the parTEFSgZs ished by the transformarion. He had left her a child in the afternoon. He found her a young wonrm in the evening. Now, mark how maladroit am in is, and how, by impulse, a woman lives up to her clothes. It is this paint that J wish to impress on Brother Howells, of Harper’s Magazine, and Brother Abbot, of the Christian Union. Jack didn’t realize that the change of rai-. ment demanded a sim tltaneons and radical change in manners. He grabbed Minnie in h's arm-, gave, her a hag and kissed her. But did she r.rt'e-sly and coolly submit again? Not much. »She drew herself away with dignity. Her face fliishe 1 genuinely ami she looked like a queen sen tanking a traitor- to the block. • ‘lf you ever do such a thing as that again,” she said, “I shall forbid you the house.’’ “But but—now, ’ Jack' began to protest; “yon ncodn t be so b.iinptious. Minnie, just because yo 1 hoe -well -—’’and iiis eves dropy.e I from tho fresh disclosure of sno.ilders to tho new concealment of ankles—“just because you have straightened up through your clothes.” •■That's just it. Jac’;." and Minnjq.. sighed with regret at the necessary :u»sumptlon of dccori id if you’ try tq hug mo, i’ll scream for mamma.” Then she naively added: “But l_sup pose_l’ll bo wearing the bld Crocks once Id a while here at Exnc.’ 1 -(.in einuaid End’'irer.

TALK OF THE DAY.

The man who is always in his cups Is sure to bring up in the jug sooner or 1 ter. In the. surf—Clara —“Where’s Ethel?” Maud-“ She had to go home: she got her bathing suit wet” That orange monopoly talked of h d better be left alone. The first failure on record was caused by a rockless Trust in fruit “I see you have mortgaged your homesi<■:id. .Muljig ■ tnwnov; woat does "jliat mean?” ‘dm?! merely bought u t>:> <>: hard cojU. that’s all.”

THE CRANBERRY BOGS.

How the Tart Assistant to Thanksgiving Turkey is Harvested. The beginning of the cranberry harvest in southern and western New Jersey is the terror of elderly housewives and the joy of the younger generation . Unless restrained by Tan iron-bound contract, domestics break away from Their temporary homes and hasten to join the small armies of cranberry pickers that gather on the variousplantations. In the western part oi the state Italians often harvest the crops. They arrive from Philadelphia and adjacent cities in large numbersand live in tents and shanties during the six weeks they are employed as pickers. Bet, ie. va w-Xx. xsWiCn contains more acres of cranberry land than any other county in the state by_ a large area, the -picking is done entirely by native New Jersey youngmen and women, girls and boys: Hereand there an entire family assembles at the bogs during the first week irt September, s,nd under an overseer proceed to gather the pin!; and crid fruit, without which'the 'Thanksgiving turkey would be esteemed a very ordinary, bird. The price for harvesting varies from forty to fifty cents' a bushel, says the" N. Y. Sun, the larger sum generally prevailing. A larger sum is paid where the crops are more difficult to be harvested because of their more springy and boggy condition. As the berries yield proliiieally and grow not unlike grapes, except that ,the_elusters arc upon a single stem, the pickers earn considerab.e money. The heads of families put it aside for their winter groceries, the girls for their, finery,: and the boys for* horses and buggies to treat their sweethearts, to frequent rides and for go-to-meetin’ clothing. A good cranberrv picker easily earns s2a day, and $3 is not unfrequently within Um reach of the most nimble fingers. Theyietd is rarely below 150 bushels to the acre, and a few years ago over 40.) bushels were harvested from a single aere on the : Bunker Hill bog, four miles from this village. . On :i Imost every <• 1 •;ti 11 •1 • v .farm4lic owners of the bogs issue tickets to their employes, ilm tickets representing quarts, pecks, and bushels. Thgse bits of pasteboard are intrusted.to the foreman, whose place is what, is known . as the cranberry house, where each picker -must carry the as fast ■ as they are gathered. There they are dumped from usually a peeltaijov or b isket into a bushel er.de, ami a ticket for four <[Uiiris is issued to each picker as the berries are turned in. Some notion of the magnitude of this industry in Ocean county may be gatli' r red ■from t tie fact 1 hat cx-Sheri ff Hol ma n. one of the largest growers there-, requires 10,000 tickets to conduct his business with the, pickers during liar- ■■ - vest time. H’Thtrscene OirFrornbefry plantation in the picking season is picturesque. -Down mpon tbei r -kiHies in a- son g-zig'- w zag line stretching from one side of the bog to the other girls dressed in calicoes and ginghams, and with lon® sun-bonnets concealing . many pretty faces, pick berries next to bright-eyed boys. The pickers chatter all the daythrough. The setting of the sun is the signal for a song.in a chorus where, every voice is mingled, and “The Old Folks at Home,”' or some other familiar plantation song rings out clear, strong and sonorous, waking the echoes of the hills around. When the plantation is stripped of its fruit there is a dance in the long _ two-stnry ei’iiiibo.ri-y—storage- house.--The girls, showering in ringlets about their faces or streaming in long, dark tresses over their plain-cut gowns; and the boys, beardless and moustached, congregate and await the pleasure of the floor manager to give the signal. “get ybur partners lol* a plain qitgid- " rille. The fiddlers (at least two, often three of them), high above the floor, upon a platform of packing crates, are .....ready to-begin thc music. Away with a rush go twenty'sets of merry'ifiakefs'r in and out through the figures of the old-fashioned dance. The only intermission in the night’s fun is the enjoyment of the supper, spread on long tables in the second story of the building.

What the Chinese Cannot Understand.

From some extracts of a letter published in the Presbyterian Messenger, it is learned that the first major surgical operation performed in Changpu by the Presbyterian missionary was in many ways a remarkable one. One evening a beggar with a dreadful leg, and in all but a dying condition, was laid by some of his friends at tho door of Dr. Howe’s house, and left there. The doctor had the patient at c».ce carried to an empty bouse belonging to one of our church inemb'rs, and there on the morrow, in the presence of- a large and wondering crowd, amputated the limb below the knee. To the suprise of all. the man stood the O[)crath)n well, and has sinco greatly improved in general condition. That the foreign doctor should pay so much attentio;i to and spend so much time and trouble on a beggar seems to have astonished the Chinese. They cannot understand how any one should give himself so much trouble without being p iid for it I heard one say, as he was watching the doctor doing his work: ‘ •Well,' “Tff6 CH I h manl'VmuTd ’hot do such things.” It came to our cars that a number of the'shopkeepers in the town are not at all please I that the man’s life has been saved. They hoped he would die, for he has been a source of great annoyance to them. He used to go Sihopa. and expose his sickening sore, and refuse to go away until they gave him what he demanded—viz., 4tX) cash from the largest shops, down to 8) cash fpm the smaller ones. There Is every probability of his recovery.

Something to Think Of.

When an office-holder; from senator down to constable, puffs out his chest and cheeks with pride and claims to represent the people, he is way off. A rdeent estinitdT by & st listici in proves that he seems to represent. ftr> -eighth.*, but practically he represents not more than scvrnteen electors to the• tnradred.