Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 26 October 1897 — Page 3

TOO CHEAP TO PICE.

AMERICA'S ABUNDANT APPLE CRO* AND ITS DESTINY.

•X targe Part ot It Will Go to Wart*. Millions of Bushel* of Apple* Bat

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Where They Fall—Why the Crop fe

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& "%3 & The American apple. crop ia this year ©ne of the largest ever produced in this country, and one of the most neglected.

The department of agriculture, which collects statistics about the production of gTaiii, cotton, tobacco and other large crops, never makes an attempt to estimate the number of bart'els of apples annually grown on Uncle Sam's big domain. Perhaps this is because the yield varies BO much from year to year and because the country is so liberally sprinkled with small orchards that the making of an accurate estimate of their aggregate product would be difficult.

There is hardly a farm in all the country east of the Rocky mountains and north of the gulf states without its apple orchard. New England is almost one big forest of Apple trees, yet the amount of attention paid by the farmers to their apple orchards is surprisingly small. Occasionally you will find a well cultivated orchard where the grass and weeds are kept down, the limbs carefully trimmed, and the caterpillars kept off, but this is an exception. If fon will notice, however, the owners of such orchards generally live in houses which declare their prosperity.

But it is not so much the neglect of the farmer for his orohard as the neglect with which he treats his apple crop that has relegated apple mising to a place of Inferior importance. The difficulty seems to be that the farmer does not know how to market his apples or dispose of them to the best advantage. Not long ago 1 was talking with a New York state farmer about ways and means and mentioned that the abundant apple crop which had already begun to weight the branches of his trees ought to add no small item to his Income. "Humph!" he replied. "Apples ain't worth the picking. Most of those will rot on the ground."

I suggested that apples seldom brought less than $1.50 per barrel in New York and that well selected apples of good quality often brought from |3.50 to 94.00 per barrel. "Yes, but we don't get that price for them. The last time I tried to market my apples I came out $35 loser. How was that? Well, it cost me just that much to hire help to pick them and to buy the barrels to put 'em in. Then I shipped them to a commission merchant in New York. I expected to get from 50 to 76 cents a barrel for them. Well, I didn't get a cent. I got a letter, though, from the commission merchant and a bill for storage. He said the market was full of apples, and he had to sell them for just about enough to pay the freight. Do I send any more apples to market? Well, I guess not. I may make a little cider this tall, enough for my own use, but it doesn't pay to haul apples to the mill with cider filling at 10 cents a gallon and less.''

Undoubtedly this has been the experience of many farmers who own orchards of from 50 to 100 trees, for it is no unusual Bight to see acres of apples rotting where they fall. There ought to be some remedy for this, because few city folks have more apples than they want. The wicked commission merchant—and there is little doubt that his sharp practices have •wrought him the merited mistrust of the farmers—is not the sole medium through which the apple raiser can reach the apple eating public.

In the first place, there is the European market, which has as yet been practically untried by the average farmer. Of course some large orchardists have taken advantage of this outlet and shipped their apples direct to commission merchants in London, but when compared with extent of the yield our apple exports have been ridiculously small. The greatest shipments of apples made during the last decade were during 1892, when 982,000 barrels of American apples were sent across the water. In 1895 only 180,000 barrels wore ex-

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orted, and In 1896 we sent but 300,000 out of the country. The English like our apples and art willing to pay good prices for them. Americcjj apples have sold in the London market lor as high as $7 per barrel, but the average price paid is about $3. Any farmer who wants to ship apples to London can obtain full particulars for doing, so and the name of a reliable London commission merchant by writing to the United States secretary of agriculture. The ocean freight on a barrel of apples amounts to less than $ 1. It will not pay, though, to send poor apples to London. Thej want the best, and ocean freights are no higher on good apples than on poor ones They liko big apples, and the Baldwin. King, Northern Spy, greening and russets are best known and best appreciated there

For second grade fruit the home market affords many openings. There are the evaporating factories, for Instance. In the western part of New York state alone there are more than 1,500 of these, and they are sprinkled through the apple raising sections of other states, but there is always room for a few mom In 1898 Europe bought 6,000,000 pounds of American evaporated apples and paid a fair price fox them too.

In a few sections of the country the apple crop is properly appreciated and rightly handled. The result is that in those sections many farmers have accumulated handsome fortunes. In southern Michigan, in western New York, in a few of the middle Atlantic states and in some of the western states the apple is made to yield rich returns. Michigan especially has of late years come to be regarded as the leading apple state, but it is not wholly du» either to conditions of soil or climate.

The man who bears the title of "apple king of the world" is Judge Wellhouse o? Kansas. He has orchards in three counties and on his broad acros are more than 100,000 bearing trees. The annual yield of his orchards varies greatly, but each year he picks and sells apples by the 100, 000 bushels and each year he buys a few more acres and sets out a few hundred more apple trees. His orchards now spread over an extent of 1,630 acres. His favorite apple is the Ben Davis, and he grows this variety exclusively on 630 acres. Just think of the mountains of apple plos and the sea of apple sauce which could be made of the yield from 100,000 trees!—AtcKison .Globe.

THEY WERE JUST TOO MEAN.

this Was the Trouble Abont Jim and Myra and the Gloomy Girl In Red.

"The world is hollow," remarked the girl in red. "It is," gloomily assented the girl whose tew gown does not fit, 'but I don't see fcow you ever found it out." "By accident, doar. It happened the day after tho cards were sent out. I had a note from Dan saying that he mnst see me once more before I was Jim's wife. Of course I didn't really care for Dan. but it Is soothing to one's vanity to know that the best man is dying of envy of the bridegroom,, who has no idea of it." "So yon said you would seo him?" "I did. I felt that it would do Jim no fcnrni if Dan did tell me once more that life was a blank without me, and it was really my last, ohancw too. Still I didn't, daro to let him come to the house." ^*"But wh$ro else could you see him?" 'At Myra's. She is to be maid ofefcemnx.'

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ed to her, so I knew sbd'd never dare to tell on me lest people would think her jealous." "When I want advice, I shall know where to come for it." "Very well, do. Well, If didn't send her word that I was coming, for I didn't want anything down on paper. As luck would have it, just as I was starting Jim sent np a box of roses and a melancholy note saying that a business engagement he couldn't shirk would prevent him from coming op that evening." "You were in luck." J^inS "So I thought. Well, I just threw mysfelf' on Myra's mercy. She wasn't a bit pleased, as I could see, but she submitted with the best grace she could. She said she would keep everyhody out of the library so we coold have a long, qniet evening, and not to worry about her, as she would probably have company." .. "That was nice of her." I "Oh, very nice. Dan came early, and we bad a perfectly lovely time. He begged me to elope the diay before the wedding, recited two poems about his despair and hinted at suicide. Oh, it was splendid! I cried myself almost to a jelly. At about half past 10 I really couldn't stand it any longer, so I told Dan that we must go in and speak to Myra, for the front parlor was so quiet that her caller had evidently failed to come. So, after another eternal farewell, we went in." "Well?" "It wasn't well—it was ill! Myra's caller was there. He was Jim. He was holding her hand and bidding her goodby forever! Oh, was ever a poor girl so cruelly deceived as I?"—Chioago Tribune.

AN UNPLEASANT SOUND.

Short Story of the Civil War Told fay an Old Soldier

"I was certainly more or less scared a number of times when I was in the army," said an old soldier—"in fact, I think soldiering in time of war is a more or less harassing occupation anyway, but I never was any more scared than I was once for a minute by something that had nothing to do with fighting whatever. This happened once when I was on picket in Virginia." The post was in a piece of woods. It was bad enough in the daytime, but at night, when you couldn't see anything at all, it was worse. It seemed as though it got darker and darker and stiller and stiller, and it seemed as though it would never end. "Suddenly it was busted wide open by the awfulest sound I ever heard. Scared? Well! "If you've ever felt the feeling that a man has before he actually gets under fire, when he's lying baok somewhere in reserve and pretty safe, but hearing the craokle up ahead, and seeing the wounded brought back, and thinking that pretty soon he's got to go in himself, why, you know what it is to have one of the most unpleasant feelings a man ever had, but there you know what's coming. This oame with a shock. I think it was the worst scare ever had. It came right out of the air square overhead and close, too, where hadn't been looking for anything, the frightfulest, most unearthly sound I ever heard, and all I could do was to stand there in the blaok dark and wait. A min ute later it carae again. What a tremen dous relief! A screeoh owl! I'd never heard one before, but I knew now what it was."—New York Sun.

Sotne Notable Buttons.

Button collecting would seem to be a childish taste, but there is one collection of this sort which justifies its existence Many years ago a lady in Portland began the collection of buttons on a wager. At the end of the year the bet was won by her attaining a string of 999, no two of which were duplicates. From this beginning she continued the collection of such as had historical value. At the present time her button museum contains no less than 000 specimens. Among them is a large button worn by a soldier in the Bevolu tionary war and a number that saw serv ice in the war of 1812, in the Crimean war and in various sanguinary engagements not only on this continent but in Europe and Asia. One is notable as having been worn by one of Napoleon's guard on the retreat from Moscow, and several figured among the three branches of the Confederate service. Here are seen bas-reliefs of the palmetto of South Carolina and the motto Sic Semper Tyrannis" of Virginia. —Lewiston Journal.

Photogram, Photograph.

The gradual adoption of "photogram" to signify a picture made by light has been proceeding for many years, and, though it has recently received a spurt in England, the attempt is not new. In December, 1866, the use of the word was strongly advocated by the Rev. A. C. Kimber.

Some years later the word was given in a supplement to Webster's Dictionary, and more recently the American Now International Dictionary gives it as a standard word. Some two years ago The Cana dian Photographic Journal commenced to consistently use the word "photogram," and a year ago an English journal called The Photogram made a point of using it.

One of the most Important firms of photographio book publishers also use it in all their publicatibns. Several photographers and photographio material dealers in England use it either occasionally or regularly, and such journals as The Sketch, The Optician and others use it occasionally as an alternative for the older form "photograph."—Notes and Queries.

A Dcftot Ia the Hands.

A good sfory ia told of an English lawyer who, having sucoeeded in making a litigant of every farmer in his county, having grown rloh At their expense, and thus established a valid claim to their consideration, consented to sit for his portrait, which was to adorn the courtroom of the county town. The picture was duly painted by a London artist, aud previously to being hung was submitted to a private view. "Most uncoratBonlike, to be sure," was the general verdict. But one old chap, regarding the canvas critically, dissented from the prevailing opinion as follows: "That, be sdmcwhat liko his face, but it ain't the man. This man has got his hand in his own pocket, you see. Now, I have knowed him for five and thirty years, and all that time he's had his hand in somebody else's pocket. This chap ain't him." —Green Bag.

A Lesson In Spelling.

She (at the desk)—Dear, please tell me how to spell costume. I'm writing to mother about my lovely new gown.

He—Well, are you ready? She—Yes. He—C-o-s-t, cost. She—Yes. He—T-o, to. She—Well? He—M-e, me—65, as yet unpaid. She—Your're a wretch!—Frank Harrison's Magazine.

Just

Like Him.

"Oh, Clara, see this tleliciously ugly Japanese god Arthur gave mo for a birthday present!" "Oh, Isn't it exquisitely horriL' Just like hira, isn't It?"-—New York Rt )rder.

A man well up in dog lore counsels Ittending purchasers of a puppy to let the mother of the puppy choose for ibem. In carrying them baok to their ocd the first tho another piqks up will always be the best.

GrefciTrfVor Kentucky, was named rifte* General Nathaniel Greene of the Revolu-

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Must Rely on Her Wit*.

TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS. TUESDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 26.1897

FOE THE PLAIN GIRL.

HOW THE POOR AND HOMELY CAN MEET WITH SUCCESS.

The Different Sets Which Exist In Ewiy Community—The Girl Who I* Neither Beautiful Nor Possessed -of a Fortune

Let the homely girl who Is just beginning her first season make up her mind early as to what "set" she means to be in. There is no place so large or so small that people of like tastes in society do nbt tend to congregate and seek each other's company. Everywhere one is sure to' find th* fast set and the serious set, the musical, the literary, the religious and the athletio sets, and, however she may make up her mind beforehand to keep clear of cliques, she is sure to find, sooner or later, that she has, by natural affinity, selected her special friends from some one of these sets.

But there is a wide difference between choosing friends among sympathetic people and giving oneself over to a very narrow range of acquaintances and Ignoring tho possibilities of amusement or benefit to: be found outside a small clique. Naturally the plain girl with a nice singing voice or the one who loves her piano is going to be inclined to chum with the other girls who like to go to the concerts, and naturally she would rather accept invitations to houses where her talents count for something and she is likely to meet the great musicians as fellow guests, but she will make a great error if she identifies herself so exclusively with the musicians that when a party is being jginde up to go and hear a popular lecture dnd come back to a little supper afterward, where there is a lot of clever talk and fun, she is left out because the people with literary tastes think she cares only for music. And, though she may be a girl with serious religious views and anxious to be of use in the Sunday school or interested in some of the city missions, it's a pity to be so ab sorbed in being of use to others that she loses all sight of the uses of her own youth and to get left out of all the innocent larks and fun of the other girls because they think "she's so deadly pious and grave."

To the ordinary looking dobutante who is full of health and high spirits and eager for pleasure—as, thank heaven, the average girl is—the greatest temptation of all is to join the fast set, tho set whose only pursuit and interest is pleasure, and, therefore, seem to her ignorant littlo eyes to have the best time of any of them.

She sees mamma shake her head when the names of some of the leaders in that set are mentioned, but when she meets them herself they seem to her to be only more than usually jolly and kind and not at all different in behavior from girls whom mamma approves of, and the men of that set are livelier and dance well and say such admiring things to her that she jumps at the conclusion that the fast set are quite as nice as anybody and much more amusing.

After awhilo she hears them say and sees them do some little thing that shocks her rather, but they are so good tempered and cheerful about it that she hesitates to take offense at it, and day'by day she sees and hears and gradually grows accustomed to things that would have shooked her terribly at first had she known them all at once. Day by day she grows to "not mind" coarse jokes and vulgar deeds, and from thinking they are no harm she simply passes into imitating their behavior, the decline in her delicacy and modesty being so gradual that she does not perceive how far she has gone. She would be horrified and disgusted with a girl whose finger nails were black or her body foul and dirty, but she has lost the power to perceive that a blaok mind and a foul tongue and imagination' are infinitely more loathsome.

Another set that the wise, sweet minded young debutante will keep out of is the idle set, who find their only amusement in the feeblest of novels and tho Saturday matinees, who fill thefr empty hours with furious admiration of aotresses and singers, who know and oare nothing for suoh addle pated admirers.

Every girl beginning her first season should take stock of herself carefully. A pretty girl, or a rich girl, or a witty girl is likely to be muoh in demand, but the girl who is not pretty has a somewhat harder task before her to make her season pleasant and successful.

For one thing, she should rfeallze that while beautiful debutantes can afford to be a little careless in dress and still look attractive, it behooves her to be always a very pink of perfection in all matters of toilet, since there is a certain be&uty and charm In absolute neatness which every one unoonsclously feels. Her hair should always be beautifully done, her nails perfectly manioured, and every pin, plait and ribbon exaotly in place. Whatever gift she may have should be carefully cultivated and developed to its highest degree. It is not always the beauties who ore the best partners on the ballroom floor or the best musioians or horsewomen or golf players, and whenever such accomplishments count the beauty may have to give place to the girl who knows how to do something well.

A clever, witty girl finds most things plain sailing, but a girl without suoh gifts can charm almost as much with sweet temper and careful courtesy and cheerful willingness to bo of uso to other people.

The rich girl, too, oan without much difficulty command a following, but the poor girl has a harder time. Yet the poor girl who shows no envy, who takes her deprivations cheerfully, is not always standing upon her dignity and knows the art of being a charming guest and accepting gracefully and gratefully many favors she cannot return, is in a fair way to do away with many of the disadvantages of circumstances. This sort of girl never places herself in rivalry with those better off than herself in matters of expense. She makes no attempt to imitate with cotton velvets and cheap furs or imitation jewels the beauties of the toilets of the rioher girls. She makes herself content with the simple daintinesses within her means, and when she entertains makes her hospitable good will and merriment take the place of costly dishes or expensive flowers.—Chicago Tribune.

Baby's Cries.

When a baby cries from hunger, it generally stretches out ilk hands and moves its head about if from pain, it moves restlessly, especially its lower limbs. There are som« people who think a child never cries unless it requires feeding. Should it frs in pain, very often feeding will only increase tho misohief. Mothers and nurses who are used to children genearlly can divine by experience what is the cause of the infant's trouble. The popular idea of dancing a baby about when it cries Is generally a very erroneous treatment, and gentle, tender handling would be much more soothing to it.—Woman.

Thrice Bleeaed Is She.

The daily luncheon prooession at Deitnonico's presents to the eye of the impecunious male foreigner the most gilded vista of hope to be unrolled within any quarter of New Yerk.

A young Englishman was the guest the other day of two women of fashion, who, as the various women of society passed to their tables, posted him promptly on their names, fame, and, above all things, fortune. Not one woman passed within an hour who was not either the heiress or the mother to the heiress «f a seduotive harvest of geld. "Ah, thero goes Miss Caroline Duer!" said one lady at last. "Beautiful, Isn't she? Good, charm in A, clever^ a.writer ef

no mean ability, a maker of the daintiest verses, artistic, pretty—everything." "And rich," said the Englishman, "of ooorse?" "No," interposedrtbeother lady. "Caroline Duer has simply everything which money cannot buy. She comes nearer physical and mental' perfection combined than any other Ionian I know in New York society."—New York Herald.

The Modern Woman.

The woman of today, as we hear of her, belongs to a class for each day in the week and has etfery afternoon and evening filled up with gay functions. She is eager to know t»U about polltios, to understand the great poets and writers of the day, especially those that are counted the most diffionlt to'comprehend. She wants to belong to societies that will make the world better and that will permit her to talk about them in public, and yet she desires as well to keep thai position in life to which she was born. Speak to her suddenly and see her start. That means overtaxed nerves. Get her to talking to you about one of her plans and see bow she flushes, notice the unnatural brilliancy of her eyes and watch the quivering of her lips and her hands. That woman is on the verge of nervous prostration. And why? Because she is permitting herself to be worn out to interest people who do not care in the least for her.—Ladies' Home

7$ The Model Kitchen*

ThA kitchen shfculd be—for health's sake if for no other—the brightest room in the house, excepting only the nursery and the room where the children 6leep. It should have every convenience for saving labor and steps and be well vontilated. It heed not be a very large room if everything Is compactly arranged in It, and it should have the walls lined with cupboards, built in the house. The sinks should not be inclosed, or if they area bit damp they will get smelling bad in a very short time, and nothing will ever overoome it. You will find on inquiry that in old houses, where the kitchen is poked off undor the back stoop and has but one window facing on a walled up area or north, the people of that house had always some member of the family sick. Microbes and infection love dark kitchens. Powdered borax scattered freely about the kitchen pantry and bathroom will exterminate roaches.—Philadelphia Times.

Helen Gould's Uninteresting Babies.

The words, "Reserve the cots for the two most uninteresting babies," always accompany the check Miss Heion Gould sends each year for the support of two beds in the babies' shelter connected with tho Church of the Holy Communion in New York. She is especially interested in hospitals for children and in day nursories and likes to take under her particular charge the little ones whom others would be likely to find unattractive. At hor lovely home of Lyndhurstat Irvington-on-the-Hudson,where Miss Gould lives most of the time, she has each Saturday morning a sewing class of little girls, the children of the workmen on her place. The gates of Lyndhurst always stand open, except on Sunday, and any one may enter and make the round of the grounds and the extensive greenhouses.—New York Letter.

Technical Training.

^Writing in The North Amerioan Review, Miss-Elizabeth Bisland pleads for giving women more technical training in the work to which they have for the most part to devote their liver.. She says: "The old practical rule of thumb apprenticeship of the household having passed away, something should replace it. Why should not schools for girls give courses of instruction in housewifery, not the mere cooking of chops or dusting of chairs, but instruction as to how houses should be iaade and furnished and 'their sanitation assured in the ohemistry of cooking, of foods and of assimilation in the laws of physiology and hygiene and something about fundamental economics, of which the average woman is totally ignorant, though she is the spender and distributer of the money the men accumulate?"

Life's Streets.

There are two sweet things In human life—to bo happy oneself and to make another so. When the first is gone, the next, thank God, is always left.

Do not loqk yourself in your room too soon, topt often or too long. Dash away the tears. Play the waltzes for the children. Put away your crape. Wear a white dress ana a, high mien and the smile of those \tho cbnqucr tho selfishness of pain on Christmas day.

The best friends of the tempted, of the young, of the erring and the overlooked are those who have known the sorest anguish and have achieved the sweetest peace

Such, too are the most sacred flowers of our festivals and the dearest angels of our happy homes.—Elizabeth Stuart Phelpsi"' stf

A Coffee Hint.

A delightful woman of the present—a dear girl who asks if her hat is on straight just as you and I do—and one of the most delightful hostesses in New York, gave a littjle dinner the other night and ifitroducfed a wrinkle with the after dinner coffee/ which Y^as new to me and too good to keep, I think. It comes from the Lotus club, where I believe many good things are originated. It is this: Before you put yonr square of sugar in the cup rub it briskly id of a on ix sides of the lump in contaot with the lemoi| peel. When it dissolves in your coffee (the sugar, not the lemon), you will find that an almost imperceptible fragrance lingers about the liquid that will carry you Into a land of flowers and fruit and perpetual sunshine.—New York Reoorder.

Woman's Influence.

The Earl of Shaftesbury once said in a public address, which he gave on the subjectof woman's influeuce: •'Tho character of the women of a country Is of greater importance to that country's nobility (han tho character of the men. Direct all the power you have to touch the hearts of Women."

Hawthorne's Granddaughter.

Miss Hildegarde Hawthorno not long since published a weird sketch in a magazine, a literary effort which resembles her grandfather's style more than does the work of either oi Nathaniel Hawthorne's children. Miss Hawthorne is the eldest daughter of "fchat dear little boy, "Julian, of whom Sophia Hawthorne wrote so lovingly to her mother. All the seven children thus "onoe removed" from the great novelist are very comely. Hildegarde is remarkably pretty, fresh faced girl, with nothing of die mystic nor even of the literary In her appearance, which is that of a bright, vivacious, rather athletio young' woman, whose rosy cheeks are brQwned by much exposure to the sun, and who is an adept with the oar, the sail er the tennis racket. She has been a seoond mother to all those other children of wljpm, her father once said that they made his,' when they were little, "the House of the Seven Gabbles."—Philadelphia Press.

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For Twenty

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T&ey sat in the twilight and talked of the past. Hiram," she was saying, "just 80 years age tonight I first became aware that you had kindled a flame In my heart" "Fee, Anastasia." "That," she mused refieettvely, "was about the last kindling I know of your doing, Hiram."

He did not speak fer a longtime. When he did, it was ooncerning something else. —Detroit

PEARY AND THE POLE

THE ARCTIC EXPLORER TALKS OF HI8 NEXT TRIP.

He Will Find the Pole or P*ri»h—Solemnly Declare* He Will Never Come

Back Should He 7*11 of His Purpose. Will Sail Next July.

Lieutenant Robert E. Peary has now announced his intention to reach the north pole, or, as he puts it, the spot that has no longitude and is in latitude 90 degrees, or else lose his life in the attempt. He discussed his plans for the voydgte and overland trip tho other day and said that he had every hope of success.

The explorer has just returned from

preparatory trip north, during wl*ph the making of arrangements for the nefil voyage was the moet important thing done, outside, of course, of finding the relics of

with the arctic highlanders, a tribo of Eskimo consisting of 230 men, women and children and known as the most northerly tribe of human beings on tho earth, to put in this coming winter obtaining bear, seal, deer and bird skins for our clothing and in securing all the walrus meat they can for dog food. I know every member of this tribe, and they all have the greatest confidence in me. I have singled out eight young men of the tribe, with their wives, canoes, dogs, sledges and tents, to accompany me to Sherard Osborne fiord, which "is about 300 miles farther north than their present abode. The conditions, though, will bo practically the same as where they are at present, and it is with these people, who aro best fltt-d for arctic work, that I shall endeavor to accomplish my aim. "I am quite sure that I shall succeed in reaching the pole—the spot which has no longitude and is in latitude 90 degrees. We shall determine our arrival there shou.d we reach it by the sextant and artificial horizon, the same as in making other observations. Nansen got within 260 miles of it, but Androe did not have one change in 1,000 when he started to drift over the polo. I do not think Andree will accomplish anything and may have lost his life long ere this in his attempt. "I will make the sledge trip accompanied by a surgeon, possibly another white man, and the necessary Eskimos. The latter can drive dogs and hunger has not the terrors for them that it has for white men. Besides, they know how to get food, if any is to be obtained. At this cad the conditions under which I make the trip are most satisfactory. The American Geographical society has tissurcd $150,000 to meet all expenses, and I have been granted a five years' leave of absencd."

During the day Lieutenailt Peary visited League Island navy yard. He had been ordered to report to the commandant of that port, as it was desired to consult hi

A town of quite small houses^ with streets, and nil along their wooden side walks trees of magic and overflowing verdure, a bursting into leaf which the dust has been unable to sully, writes Paul Bourget from Jacksonville, Fla., in the Boston Herald. Persian lilacs, like those whose perfume I breathed in the east, stand in the street itself, gigantio, in full bloom, and perfuming the already burning air. There are, moreover, overladen orange treos, Japanese medlars, also yel low with fruit, bananas, pjlm trees, all of which foreshadow still auother world than that of Georgia. A penetrating aroma seems to pass through the sun which shines in the too intense blue like the sky which overhung the Dead sea last year, when, on leaving the grim convent of Mar Saba, I perceived that still water and thA soft line of the mountains of IVIoab. But yonder history and legend wore for me mixed with the sensation of nature. Here it is nature alone with whioh I come in contact, nature with its murderous f&una, its violent flora, its atmospheric phenomena, rather its cataclysms, charm and danger, ot once perceptible in tho very air one breathes, in every small dotuil which we meot at the corner of the street, in the sudden jumps of temperature—In fact, in the entire life of this small town, so peaceful on this Easter morning.

Negroes and still more negroes. It seems as if the town belongs to them entirely, so densely do they throng on the sidewalks, the men in Princc Albert coats, with flowers in their buttonholes, and wearing tTousers of bright shades, the women clothed in outrageously light oolored dresses, among which those of apple green, poppy red ai.d light pink predominate. Their hotlines arc cut in flgaro fash-

Millinery arid Cloak Sale

"r All this week we will offer the public Gigantic Bargains at Dwarf prices.

The buying opportunity of your life time We will sell you Cloaks at less money than they can now be bought for at wholesale.

In the Millinery line -re have all the newest creations and our price on these for this sale is way down.

1 We Trim your Hat free of charge. 1

Bring us your hat and have it trimmed. It costs you nothing. We will also offer great inducements in Hosiery, Underwear, Blankets, Dress Goods, Etc.

Our prices are always the lowest and we guarantee everything as represented OT your money back at ilfrf

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Ion, their hats are deoozsted with ribbons and enormous flowers, and their hair is plaited in plaits which are very thin and very tight, the object being to diminish or destroy the natural crinkling. They smile, showing their white teeth between their thick lips. The white teeth of the men are displayed in a similar smile, and they all salute and approach one another with that ceremonious familiarity, tfiat species of natural affectation, which is peculiar to this strange race.

Sins of Alexander III.

In his zeal to stamp* out disaffection Alexander III reintroduced the knout, discontinued in a previous reign, and practically abolished trial by jury. In 1&38 he sanctioned an order, signed by Oalkin Vrasskoi, head of the central prison department, declaring that hentfeforth "no difference shall be admitted In favor ot political prisoners in respect of punishment," and that ''flogging with the rod and with the whip shall be admitted." This annihilated the distlncticn up to then

the Greely expedition at Cape Sablne and maintained between pollttoal offenders and securing the 100 ton meteorite, which he ordinary criminals, since it gave to the got on Meteoric island. Speaking of his I executive officer of prisons the right to coming trip Lieutenant Peary said: flog "politicals" in his charge, and it was "We shall sail some time during the lat- under this order, sanctioned by the cear, tar part of July, and I propose staying in that Mme. Sigida rcceivod the brutal beatthe frozen zone five years, or forever If ing that ended in her death. necessary, as I am determined to rtaoh the Another reactionary feature of prison spot commonly known as tho north pole. administration for which the government My arrangements, so far as they concern of Alexander III was responsible is the the overland trip, are completed, and I introduction of imprisonment by adminhave every reason to be satisfied with them. "I may sail again in the Hope, though I think it quite likely that another vessel will be secured. One fact you oan rest assured of, she will oarrycoal in every avail-

isfcratlve order. Previous so 1886 the ad|jf ministrative exile of political suspects to various places of residence in the provinces und to Siberia was common enough, but in that year was begun the practice of

able crevice and niche, for fuel^more than committing these suspeots to jail and anything else except food is4 necessary, holding them there without trial as "a Therefore I shall have as abundant a sup- preventive measure," at the will and ca-c^ ply as possible. price of tho executive. A new prison inffe! "We shall sail straight for Sherard Os- St. Petersburg, known ts "The Cross, borne fiord and make that place the base has been designated to meet the case oiy.-'-of all operations. Mrs. Peary will«ot ac- this kind of offenders—that Is, of people^ company me on this trip. who havo not committed any crime, buffi's "On the last trip I made arrangements are simply suspected of being about to bo-u% come "politically untrustworthy."—Ed-

HI und Noblo in Donahce's Magazine,

hjti The Meek and Mild Chinaman.

on some matters pertaining to the proper equipment of vessels destined to serve amid fields of floating ice. His visit to tho yard did not last long, and he started for Washington during the afternoon. -.^Muladeiphia Press.

A FLORIDA PICTURE.

Ten Sketch of Southern Scenes and Surroundings by Paul Bourffet.

Tho Chinaman, although proverbially '1 xneek and mild, is a man of dauntless** courage and unflinching fortitude. Voy-v*?^^

ages over vast tracts of stormy seas, extremes of heat or cold, prolonged separation from homo and all he holds most dear and sacred, contumely and wrong at the hands of men among whom he casts hlsl lot—nothing of all this c»n turn him from his own purpose in lir*—namely, thes accumulation of a little store of dollarsg which 30 years forward will make him rich man in the country of bis birth, will enable him to provide for his parents and erect monuments to the honor of his ancestors and will causo him to be looked! up to and euvied by his fellow villagers.

To achieve this he goes every where—everywhere, at least, cxcept to lands whose hostile laws of reccnt years block him at the ports of entry, and in countries where such laws have been passed the very fact shows that the Mongolian has already secured a foothold. We are told that there is no place of consequence the wide world over where a Scotchman is not to the fore. For myself I expect as confidently, wherever I wander, to find my Chinaman.— Nineteenth Century.

Wounded 48 Times In One Battle.

One of the most remarkable characters in the United States is an old soldier known to the G. A. R. men of the east as Comrade Chase. Chaso served in a Maino battery during the war and carries other scars of nearly 100 wounds, 48 of which ,s were received In the single battle of Gettysburg. During the ''period of conflict" he is said to have received more wounds than any other man who fought on either side and lived to tell of his marvelous escapes and exhibit his numerous soars in proof of his wonderful story.—St. Louis Republic.

Chocolate Sonp.

Chocolate soup Is prepared by putting into a saucepan about a quarter of a pound of grated chocolate with 3 pints of milk. These quantities can, of course, be proportionately altered to suit the occasion. The milk must bo boiling. Putin a lump of 6ugar and let the whole boil for an hour. Before serving stir the yolks of four oggs, previously beaten up in a little milk. Pour this over fried dice of rolls and servo very hot.—Kansas City Times.

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