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The Signal, 1898-12-8, Page 7a yet, MAD GARDENER. e bharm shall w• lay re h 0 �.gs.. cold se hitt st length in Ents abreuct bithotes tut blazon their beauty told ▪ diy little sadism that hardly can hold I heed erect la a crowd? 1 ,tefdly lily sad queenly rot. . wooed sod trellised well, hi 11131"1 t fe blows, 'o�o trodden dale: knows lere the dew of hl. teardrop fell1 -Marion M Miller in Criteria . IN MEMORIAM. - the tightly closed abutters, the house be- came wool, sod the books, the papers. the stuffed birds mud the mauy pictures and ublecta of taste begau to show deur of decay. Tbeu Mise Partridge Wok astep which MUM have given bar beast • grout wrench Except fur the caretaker's quarters, she had the entire iuterior of the house stripped and everythiug takeu to her residence, and from that time her visite W the house have oea.tid, but mien wbeo the house was being strapped the shutters were not opened, and it it a Lot that for 98 years they bore re twined tightly clawed. Henry Hall Ward, to whom Mia Partridge has remained so faithful for so many years, was deaf the lewder. of the New York society id his day and Iu which the Ward family is still rept. SIIInted by his cumin. --General William et. Ward. wbo was au oiliest in the United States volunteer service daring the civil war, and Mr Charles 11 Ward; Mr Frauci. E. Wald, the 1st ter's son. is secretary of the Seabrigbl Golf club, and another son, Henry Ward. 1s with Troop A in Porto Rioo Henry Hall Ward was president of the New York club in its early days, when it bad delightful quarters in the dIfillaigkrbouseLat_lute avenaeand Fifteenth street. He was also • promi- nent member of the Union club and of the Society of the Clocionati, of which hews. also treasurer The Ward family owes Its membership in this society W Colonel Samuel Ward, an officer of the Revolutionary army. who we. Henry Hall Ward's grandfather. The portrait of another ancestor. Governor Richard Ward of Rhode Island, is now the prop- erty of Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt. Henry Hall Ward's father we. • brother of Samuel Ward. whose son, Samuel, was tbe Sam Ward. tamooe as • wit, scholar and bon vivant. Other Dousing of Henry Hall Ward were Mn Julia Ward Howe and Kra Crawford. the wife of the sculptor end the mother id F. Marion Orawford. It seems • woe - der that the novelist should not have woven this romance, which be found ready to band in his own family, into • novel. Henry Hall Wards' social position may be judged from the fact that among the pallbearers at his funeral in Grace church were John Jacob Astor, Walter L. Cutting. Johnston Livingston and James Fronde Rummies. Eliza Ann Partridge's relationship to Henry Hall Ward arose from the fact that their mothers were sister. They were members of the Hall family et Pomfret, Conn. J Pretsott Hall, bet uncle, we. William M. Evart's tint law partner Those wbo knew Miss Par- tridge as • girl, so many year. ago de- scribe ber as charming She was of medium height, bad brown eyes and an abundance of strikingly dark hair. Sbe is mid. even now. •t the age of 84, to preserve much of ber youthful beauty Wbeo Henry Hall Ward died. one of his friends penned these lines In his memory : Honored and loved. he p.esd away Al sink. . summer's day to rest. The brightest when the radiant cloud. Of silent .rent.g g m the west Does the woman wbo .till trearores his memory think of these lines as she gases into the sunset? --New York Her- ald. Ifx 38 years the bouts at SS Bond eeF .e specimen of • tine New York limos of 50 years ago and long the ly private house remaining on what sows bunions thoroughfare -bas re- lined cloned, except that • caretaker own the basement. Above this the ode are tightly shut, and • poll at 'front doorbell awakens no response s bonne has. deserted, decaying look, Eleven the large doorplate has grown tarniebed that Otte nada with difficul the Dante. "H. Ward." Henry Ward died mauy yearn ago, d his sou, Henry Hall Ward, then he mazer= of the house. It 1e nnen fir n th that the apple portioned Lima rained slowed and, so far as the pub- knows, unfrequeuted by any human ing Yet around this decaying roti nue there (Austen one of the most arming romances, one of the moat oohing real love stories. One sharer in this romance passed ray when Henry Hall Ward died 28 an ago. The other figure in this ten - ✓ drama, Miss Elisabeth Ann Pat Age. is still living, at the age oil 84, in Mose to wblcb she ams on • two reek.' vi.it to an aunt 40 years ago tars she has remained ever since, aur wing all wbo were occupants of the Dae at the time when .be arrived fur fortnight's visit which has -now lat- twascore ye•n The .ant whom sbe me to visit was Mn William 0 arc, • relative of Hooey Hall Ward n romance of their lives datesfnetber ck than this, for Mi.. Partridge lived ith Henry Hall Ward and his motber Oil the latter's destb. The romance of the old Brod street rose dates from the death of the man le loved sod who loved her; whom she as accustomed to walk half way down two to meet every day all •1r, way owe from business, and from whom. his death, .he Inherited • life inter rt in practically all his large estate at whom, for reasons which all wbo ave known of her romance have par led over, she never married Sonie ay be family opposed the marriage uu se cunt of their close relationship, for hey were ooaein& Be that as it may henry Hall Ward and Elise Ann Par ridge furnished New York society with romance for many years, •od lttd, how those who have been in .gaiety mg enough to remember the einem- tepees love to dwell upon it and to pint to it as • tender .boot springing spin a society in which moob is thought le be calculating, frivolous and vain. When Henry Hall Ward died atSara• We. in 1879, the executers to whom Ibe bulk of his e.tate was left in trust kr Mise Partridge wondered what dim- psition .be would make of the old Bond street house. Huainan was alreed, ssgtnning to spring up in its ,ietn4'ty It we. • valuable piece of rest estate, tad capable, if improved, of yielding. large income. But Mims Partridge acted promptly and in • way which mon than anything else, the could bate dews thawed how tenderly the held her lov- e'. memory. There were two servants la the house -Mr. Ward's valet and the totter'. wile. To them site gave strict orders thief in the floors above tbe base- ment not • thing was to be touched. everything, even to the books and pa- pers, was to remain exactly as Mr Ward bad left them when be went to Barssoga to die. The two people wbo had so faithfully served ber lover dur- ing his life were to remain in ogre of the boeme. - .. Further SIMS ibis, however, Miss Partridge showed an intertest in the home of her lover which .aped to keep the romance of ber life fresh in the minds of all who knew her Every day abs walked down from ber residence in Thirty-seventh street to the old Bond street house and went through it seta. tying herself that exoept for the mel Iowueae of added age everything re- mained exactly the same .a her lover bad lett it. Day after day the louely figure was seen entering the hoose. and day after day .he came forth as if from the tomb of her hopes. Only one change (look place in the interior aspect, and that change was doe to ber devotiou to ber lover's memory To appreciate it one must know something shoot the boan and owe of Ice inmate'. hobbies. This bones is an old fashioned brink Adenine, with • basement three etoriee and in attic with dormer window" The iron posterns at the front steps are unusually ornate, and the front door. with It. old colonial columns, anpport lug • quaint lunette, is a joy to the eta - dent of old time architecture. The in- terior arrangement" of the house depart from the usual New York style of resi- dence in that the moire are placed far back, with a landing and a turn half way up, from which a window looks out on the back yard. This ghee Do• aerial spaciorieners to the hall.. The tor• • stare of the parlor and the dining room back of it was of mahogany. not of the heavy, cumbersome kited, but lighter in P yle and more ornate. A conspicuous festers in the parlor was a superb loop- srd skin, which lay in front of the are. Pia ase `f8atttel, gad a little aside from either end of the dining room to bye were two stands, on which perebe.i parrots, one of which bad belonged to Jerome Bonaparte. Henry Hall Ward had been very food of bird. Th. fame of the backyard was anuenally high, wet hovered with vines led lined with dovenote. The patron bed doves wire great pets of Mr. Ward'. After hie death Mia Partridge bad them most carefully tended. As sat by aloe they died the bad them A FACE. Ab would yea the sly ultras' fn? 11 lea flowery garden plow. Where knots of brute. he.. sash draw That all is work sad nowhere stare u to. .Neat, delicious morn, Where day Is breeding, more bora It is • meadow yet unshorn, whish th,.usad flower. do adorn It is the heaven's bright reflex, Weak eye. to dasale and to vex- is es1. 28' Ides of her sat, Envy of whom duels worlds perplex It les fee .f theta. that .tulle., Pleasing, though It kills the while. Where death and love in pretty wiles Bach other mutually beguiles It Is fair beauty's freshest youth. It la the feign'd Elysium's truth. The eprlug that wintered b.arte r.eew'th. And One le that my soul pur.u'tb. -Thomas lampl.m, 'Seventeenth Century AT THE PLAY. "How funny to be here with you!" said she. lie started. The phrase jarred biro It was at onee inapplicable aod untlig nified. He turned to her with It paiucti expression. '' Deligbtful, " "perfect.' eertain inn ' 'oohs eltild ham din duo -etti expreselons. rude as these, -ester/Hoe- place ar they would undoubtedly have been. A man may be teuder toward • woman's rhapsodise about ber lover when that lover is himeelf. But - "Oh, oh, ob l" She clutched his arm "What funny peoplel" The fatal ad jective again! This ttme be- winced, winced twioe deliberately, lest the should mistake tbe first signal of die tress as • mere physical infirmity. She continued quickly: "That reminds me -I don't know why it renniuds me, but it does; force of habit perhaps, because be hetes bad- ly turned out women so -Don is op in town tonight Did you know? I wonder if we shall oome across him?" ''Yon mean Lord Kilned!'" younger "Yon remember Dont" Her glance, meeting his full, showed some surprise at his obvious temper. She put her hand out hurriedly, with • pretty. unaffected gesture of sympatby Nothing irritates a man whose liver is out of order so much as being re- minded of tin. "Wit. -The deepening curves at Chinoock's mouth grew posi- tively mid with irritation. "Of course not Is anytbing ever the matter with me? How your imagination rune away with you-dearestl" The "deemed" was • dutiful oonceesion to the situation ; but, somehow, she shrank freers it, her ardor chilled, the keerineem of ber enjoyment marred already. "We have still ten minutes to wait before the curtain rives," be said. Ile regretted hie cnstoniary after dinner ooffee. "What if I took the opportuni- ty of explaininst to you the motif a the play? It is • trifle complex." "I would be kind of you," she said, with • little smile, but, notwithstand- ing, her eyes showed some disappoint, ment as the scanned the house. She was longing to rpeak the meet Moak - ties to which most lovers find it pleseant to listen; to make ber bright little oommenta and butterfly criticiems; to sip to its full the eirsottertremoof em - Dement enjoyment; to be, in • word. berself-the creature of the moment, and his own. &be had looked foyward to tonight - the find a her emancipation -with rapturous excitement •'11 will be al- iment as good es being his wife," the bad confided to the married Meter under whose chaperonage she was spending the S4 hours in town, which broke ber jourpey between her Gloucestershire •is - it and her travels farther north. "To have him all to myself for • whole even - hag' To feel that I really belong to him as be belongs to mei Can you imagine anything more perfect?" Lady Guthrie could, easily, but she did pot my so. Sbe had only met Chin - n ook once, and he impressed her as a prig and a bore, and ?dargot's angry disclaimers could not alter her eister's • "You have to merry him, not D- ein said comfortably. " What does it Matter what I think? He'n well off. which is something. At least you mu congratulate yourself so far. No one ean patronise you. Your women friends wool be able to pass you on their tin. becoming last year's clothing nor their husbands' stale tobacco." "Yon're prejudiced." Margot repl led "All sietere are." Whioh in a sense was true, for Lady Guthrie's sympathy was openly enlisted on behalf of the Doo Garrick, who bad adored Margot since she trespassed hareficedly and barefoot in the Kilmer. deer forept as a HUI. child. Bat Margot. having eye tematically dominated him for 18 yearn, already felt tbe pleasure might pall if long continued. "He bas tmen so pinch to me all my life. It would be boring for bim to become more still during the rest of it I know him teo well -too wen," she said, in excuse for her cold hearteduess But at objections such an these Lady Guthrie shook her head in stern dieclaimer " Wait.'' she said sagely. "wait. ' And Margot welted. Tonight for the first time she saw eamething of the reverse pide of her new picture, the moves back Was it dteloyal to wish that Mr. elhionciel be- haved more as one expects a lover to fts• ireeld Get Mesa. behave even In pnblio, that be shoold When he was a Fl d studeiot. thn show 'tome Port of open pride a posses late Sherman Hoar beoame St a)ajosk glad proprietorship? th. lime. Tell me all about it agaip. 1 it listen, truly. Do forgive me, Rluh}rd. please. " Her pleading broke down even Chin - Dock's iodigeatioo. Bat his shirt front looked extr.ordivarily stiff and starch ed and white. rather like polished mar ble, she thought, or was it only papier macho? And Margot moved iu.tinotivuly a little farther from bow as he oou tinoed : "Foremost in tbe nuke o1 our latter day satirists James Lee Hoey steeds unequaled. She it was who practically founded the new school. Sbe Maude alone. Her disciples Imitate laboriously her briltirnt dialogue. her scintillating epigram" - "Her?" the girl repeated vaguely. "Her? Wby do you speak of bier ae herr Surely be is a m•u " "Do you mean"- be asked. "1s it possible thata living wouiauexists wbo does not recognize the supreme tact that ibis One of our greatest writers -1 had almost said our one great writer -hon- ored her ser by belonging to it?" "I never realized that t0 belong to either sex was a question $if one's owo volition," Margot said quietly. "I did not know that Jame' Lee Hoey was a wotnen. olid, what is more, I'm not es- pectel #y 01 the last: _ - � �- The Littler Thiess Greet lies Dm I like to beer steels' of the littleness of great men. I like to think that Shakes. pare was food a his glaas. I even cling to the tiled that distraosful anal orgy with frieod Ben Janson. Pomibly the story may not be true, but I hope it waa I like to think of him as poach- er, ea village ne'er do well. denounced by the local grammar school minter. pa inched at by the load J. P. of the I like to reflect that Cromwell had a wart on bis nose. Tin thought maker me more contented with my own fea- ture& I like to tbink that he put sweets upon the chairs, to see finely drawled ladies rpoil their frocks; to tell myself that he roared with laughter at the silly jest, like any east end 'Arry with bL bank holiday equirt of dirty water. I like tc read that Oerlyle threw boom at bis wife and occurionally made iiimeelf highly ridiculous over moan annoyances that would have been smiled at by • man of well balaneed mind I think of the 50 foolish things a weth I do and soy to repeat, "1, too, am of an Idle Fellow." by Jerome K. Jer• cena Mioeral wool looks very much like cotton batting with little bite or glass scattered through it. It im made thie way: There are two streams of slag (which is the scum from iron), one in each side, and • jet of Hearn in be- tween, and as the two streams a plag meet the steam the mineral wool is formed. The blart that is need to send the slag over the steam comes with inch force that it 'ends the wool formed from the slag flying to all parte of the building, and *nom getting outside of the builn- lug makes it look as though it were oovered with snow. As the wool flies around the little particles of glees 'operate from it, and as the slag was redhot the pieces of glass are on fire, and they lopk like lit- tle Mara flying around. It is need for packing aronnel regierters and between walls. It is a nonconductor el beat, therefore it will not burn. inflow' and planed tn • front hall moon en the second floor. This 1. the only Particular in whith the interior aspect elf the hones was thanged from the es - set condition la which lir. Wird ni "Mr. Harry," as Mks Partridge wneld sail hint in speaking of bins to his old fervent,. left it For many yeses the erettineett her grill ten 'Mita and wondered through the house whieb bad so many Mader mem seta, aw 1W1r-ft* Sao Maisif had lived there antil the death of ber loyet's Mother. but with the lapse of years. &melee owing to the hot thst ace thy of ma ensild flud ins way thlOdelle maker a epigramo One ending he Me been indulging in his lomat style of oonversation in the rooms of Profeesor D., a man titer his own heart, hut too apt to interlard lecture* ertth ap- parently original witticisms taken, after the manner of Meliers, wherever he found them. When Hoar and • fellow student bad left the academic presences. the latter enthusiastically oriel: "Hy "I wonder what made that Indian chief give op and run. It's something unions' with him " '1 euppose," answered the man who never acknowledges that be doeen't know, "he hes been so need to sneering o the 'palefaces' that he got rattled ohen thee sent a detachment of celored ',top. ftmr him. "-Washington Star. immediately in tenet of them there was a gay, adsorbed young couple, chatting, laughing, looking, moiling. reacting their own tender meanings into the most trivial incidents of the evening. Margot watched them, fascinated in spite of bereelf. flow differently they behaved from herself and her lover! The mean leaned slightly forward -be "had got it bully," Don would have said Every now and then his coat sleeve touched the little immovable white TliE CONCORD GRAPE. WHERE ANU HOW IT US (MOWN ANO 0. Tete Stalls of lath Parole •1111 All through the eastern natal fake dis- tribution of the Conoord grape ytald is la program. Eastern people are peed& Us Concords. They and the luscious big To - hays of Caltiornia too sweet to their taste the little pink Delawares teio few to sup- ply the demand and the imported bleJagas toniewhat lacking in flavor when vow - "red with the peerless purple Concords Moreover, the Conoords are so obeap and abundant amo they are within tha reach of every one. The greater part of the Concord graded grown in thie ociuntry are raised in an- tral New York and Penneyivania, al- though Michigan, -Ohio and a few western states have of late begun to produce Con- cords. licit the 'eke region of New York furnimbes more of this kind of grapes than all other aections combitted. Two moth a pound Is the prevallitig price in New York and vicinity this season, for In spite of bad grape weather early last spring there ha. been au euor- mow .The grapes roach the markei Slytrforms. Ttie best eines are lambed in small handled basliats h.dding from six to ten pounds each. Three • baskets are tilled right In the vineyards, for grapes will stand but little handling Tbe sec- ond best fruit Is packed tn big wooden trays holding about 60 pounds each Tbees sell for from elli to 1120 • ton Tne small baskets are sold by retailer* ior table utte. and U you amid be in New York oity and watch the afternoon pae 'sessions of commuters streaming toward the ferries on their way to suburbia' bonsai you would roe where many of these bee - kegs go The large trsYs are bought by wine zu•nufacturers or by prudent house- keepers, wbo use the fruit for making jelly and preserves Twenty years ago the country In and near Fithian, N. Y., was the center for tablished reputations aa flee pope grow era But immenee •theyarde suddenly sprang into existence along the shores of the lakes In the central part of the state, and as the soil seemed better adapted for their growth there, and the fierce competi- lion thus started outdo growing them in the older localities often unprofitable, the trade has gradually shifted to the western WHY THEY LAUGHED MYSTSRIOUS MIRTH OF A CLASS Al AN ART LECTURE. Deal el Worry twill Om gloides et Might Fell. Wk.. Ile Pereeived tier Joke Mlisamelf. There was an absentminded pro'. and there was also a girls' college profeerur during his Ant year Melon... • .0 art, end the girls sometintee lien • .d. When it clime to examination time, thief who had li Mined wrute patient v. amused the professor. Be sat doe o deux with a pipe and a mug -he bad 8. Purely CAN .ImAlt National in on character. Age limit - IS to 45. Fixed Premium. No Death Awes. Over ONZ LION! DOtesto. oak! to members anti heir aoperidristairlf.‘e organization, 1879. Careful medical selection. Moils rate for the lath year of its him. Has a larger Surplus on l'reid for Society of tete kitul in Catiode. dollar of the Serplua invested out.' offeklefeWs. .„ ffIfFreariteerneing • MATH CLAIMS. , 111. At a cost a from 2 to Cents a d. y any healthy MAII (01.11 accepti.1.• risk), can secure 91.00o 'menace for his ramify or dependints. Fen inforcatees sent on application te M. Eimer" bribed his landlady so that she never avid about the mug -and one after another things 'happened to those papery. owa- days the girls listen in the lectures on art, or they don't take the °curse. But they hove bad their revenge, for to this hour- •nd In all likelihood forever after--thls story is • classic prep' rty of that college. Now, it happened that on•day the youtm profemor got very much Intereited in ex• pounding a point It was about the beauty ef certain statues in the west pediment of th• Parthenon. The girls did not under• nand, and he knew they did not, hut what did be care He knew that • great stain' was • noble object of admiration. It gave him a delight to say so, •nd as for those callow maidens they bad to learn what he yet for them to learn, and 0.1 was all therit.Weitabout it. Ile sat down at his tableontimpla of his lecture room, pulled up the knees a his trousers and launched upon hie lecture. He got himself deeply Interested leaned hie elbows on the table, twisted In his chair, wriggled up las trousers still higher andistalked fast. Presently the girls began th show Inter- est. They leaned forward. They looked at each o: her and their eye. brightened Thele culor heightened. aud here and • AT THE TURN 0. THE ROAD • moment • pante tor Waging and for dream tog • moment's looking baciltward on the way ro itime my hand to long past turrets gleaming. To nand and think of life of yesterday' • BON time to dreem of nutlit hour, apses where white towers' rise against te. Tv tread again that path of too tweet Gower% To bear again be. greeting and modby. What ts there, may you. In that faroff etty Of my ppet living and past loverig left, Ifrappridln Its golden bate, to stir my ptly And cell the bitter sigh of the bereft, SU memory of a tooth warm trusting. (Jule hoe The memory of that touch gown oold as we? • woke hushed that eat pure am wild bird's • love whose bright lame bunted ta se,r1 floe Only • grave? Life of today will teach me Ite stream fleets fast for sorrovr •n• regret Beyond this turn ita eweeping waive will reach 11111▪ 8i go with It as we all got Yet- • moment's pause for longIng and for dreams • moment'. looking backward on the way, there one of them snickered. ' • - To kwe my hand to long pest turrets glean There was nothing funny about 11Wse Mg. ',motto' statues on the weet front of the To nand and think .1 Me of yenerdayi -L Marton Jenks in Donahoe's. 1 Parthenon, and the protestor howl:red. Rei took • new attitude In Ids chair. ab- sentmindedly pulled up Ids trousers once more and taut on with his harangue. The girls very nearly exploded. At last the leoture was over. The gig- gling of the clam waa getting almost bys- torten]. and the end came just in tims Five minute, more and not a girl in the room would have ahown a straight frog. Even as it was, the lath sentence of the professor brought forth • shriek. "Young ladies," raid the professore@ be got up and shook down Ms trousers, ' the Metter of the Parthenon seem be have afforded you • great deal ot. emossmeall." And then came the shriek. They did ea era do on such oocasions-sach according to her kind. One doubled up and went "Hawk!" another collapsed on the next girl's shoulder and wept with laughter, another sat bolt 'weight, red as • beet, and choked demurely, like • lady. The sound of the hell, terminating the hour, deliv- ered them all from an impossible sltua• tion. Tin girls ran from the room and tittered wildly as they •anis'el The protester shook tAmeelf again, stamped Ids trousers dowa %et- his slices and picked np the notes of his lecture. He did not haat any particular faith in the hmlnine capacity for art, anyhow, and the performance of his class annoyed Mtn. "Now, what wee it •hout my dearrip. Bon of theme nettles." he asked hiniowlf, "that mado Chow girls art like such gave?" lie Miad to recall what he had ssid and could remember nothing that explained h II aa awa that he frequently "This so called new theory of oolor bearing isn't new at all," maid a chap who takes an interest in curious thingo "and the whole idea le very neatly em- bodied in the old story of the blind man who, kfter mnrb reflection, told hie wife that he had diseovered what owlet was like. 'It resembles the sound of trumpet,' be said. The same theme was worked out years ago in an uncanny French :roved that described s wealthy roue who exhausted every form of pleasure aud finally retired to a se- cluded chateau, where be exiierimented the anewer till upon him. upon the interrelation of the senses. Dee time'''. with the greenish, yellow skin The prof( son had on one red sock and "Different liqueurs and cordials on such as the Niagara. the lieleccit and the a brown dne. - Cincinnati Commend .! gaited certain nipples' instrumeuts to Martha, are cultivated in root quanthim the Niagara being the beat melting of thet. LOADING WINE ON•PKIII TON MARKET. part of the state. eo that this year about •Il of the grapes will be received from the country around Lake Retake There bun• dyed. and hundreds of acres are planted with the VIINS, and the harveating of the grape crop 11 the occupation of the people for nines wound tho two principal ship- ping pima!, Penn Tan at one end of ehe lake and Hemniondsport at the other Just as In the wool section expert shear- ers oan be found, so are there men and women who make a busineas of cutting, sorting and park lug the. grapes fOr Market The usual way for the crop to be sent to New York is for some large wholesale bowie to send • buyer out in the section. who goes from eineyard to •Ineyard select- ing and purchasing. The philters and packers then begin the work of gathering the bunches, and they are carried to the larger pricking holies. of the New York arm out In the aiuntry There the wom- en tort them •nd arrange the better qual- ity in the small basketa and the others in the trays or boxes for shipping le New Aniong the first grapea to reach the market Is the Moore's Early. which some- what resemble. the time honored Concord, but as it grows abundantly in the south- ern states and ripens earlier and in larger annnidehcloseborwrI u n ade breaks, and the fact did -not Double pgtr'icer* itlhar"fttPhriatn(Uttihne'rftnItimrka him in the least, but tochiy be Fould recall nothing of the kind. Ile went home in • blue grape. the Concord. which moon fol - bad humor, still raying to himself, "Why lows is did dome girls laugh at the statues?" Weldon theses there are the Salem ano the lateens, which lutes been In the mar ket many years. and of the newer torte He asked hives...If the question several times, and not until late that night did gloved band next his and ilnitareti ony tender, •betraeted. It wait Po pretty. en natural It woke how nympathy and gave hers pleapant little feeling nf emu berm!, moved • little closer "Are yen attending? Margot. I droll believe you've heard a word I've mid " in tatatIlble Margot started, bey cheeks aflame. alio-Mist-1i *remotest way of datos- '11)ent. I'm gl) *wry. How Melva& of thing 'heftier -IA object nougat of gm It'll ell en fresh aberaiiiiiiakehl er tilde? &idol to me, you OM I'M • bit anatter t tudent-Tity f• 0111. 1.1.41issende brained. Sorb intelligence as I bay. 1. his overwrought brain. mod be eon irtmoted «bat he called a 'taste orches - Dion. ' It Wet a cabinet containing In numerable strange foreign drinks, and by pausing with s wineglass from ram tap to another he produced the effect of a symphony How wee that for • fan which was written by • very dietin- guished French novelipt, merely Wishes that the theory of making one "thee do duty for another is by no menus • mod- ern scientific, fad, but ie 'something that has excited speculation for many, many years." - New Orleans Times -Demo - coat A Owe Sided Altair. "Yon and Hogby are dear friends, aren't you?" "Well, he has been dear to me, but I bare never 'cost bim anything." -Chi - auto Record. Par -titles ef china. It was within the sphere of Ameri can influenee. Drapttit Moan end menthe, tbe nem mood firm, rehiring ell innovations and reform.. "No checkoff. ne shirteel" leas their Ann, invs..iahle reply. Coneeqnently the foreign devil Hite forced to rotire without mak ing change of front. We TrIlle. IDOvidoetrir- W hat has happened? Why did you pnil the hell oord? Papeenger-My wife's hat fell ant of the window. Conductor -And for each • trifle you wino the train? Pasweriglir-Trifief Von ought to see my wife's het Housekeep- ing. all. The Odes ba is one of the laat. ripen and be rent to ntarkek 11 the fruit is not allowed to beanie overripe on the vines, it will keep In good yondition for -it long time, and each year largo quantities of the hardier kinds, gull' as the Catewba. the Cor.•ord and the lie berths, are racked stymy, 'mina; in too frost proof pecking houses in the country or the cold storage honees In the city. to await the holiday trade, aud the grapes which are displayed on the fruit nt Chriattnits have been picked from the for fully three month.. yet are still as fresh and moat se when fire% pocked It may be surprising to eatcre people to learn that New York is the ercond Mots in the Union in the extent and %BRIO of Ito Oncyards, California, of tourer. com Ing and There are nearly 46,000 111.11M in New York devoted to grate. mist ng Thom vineyards represent. an in eestment of about $25,coo.000. end le them ors" 96, 000 people find employment Some idea of New York's preeent and future wealth from grime growing ran he gulped from the figure@ onliected three years ego by the United States census lot ream The vintage of 1890 was • rare ono Inent of ow the whiseke, led 'Ubsy di 006 tons, ar 08,000,00.11011.nde, of told. grapes to eastern markets prtnctpally, while *ev- ent' carloads went to England. Moat of these grapey were onr old friends the Con :lords. which may be mild to be the leading Atioarinan grapes. CHARLES WARNER The Wensaa'• Pure. "Why deal yon have • woman's pege in yonr paper?" asked the visitor "We have," Mid the editor of the aawirtflor Metier- '1 !fermis am the same pege for the births, deaths, mer riagea and divorce suite."-elneinnati Enquirer Japan's einmtnIesh•n on the penal rode ottende So propose the ehollahment of the loath penalty Harikari will then be left to the criminal's own 4sned. of dellessr At a eharitahle sate In Paris Baron bim with tbe metal vecieest to buy edine thing "What am 1 to hey?" saki the harm 'Yon have nothing at all suitehle for me Bat I have an hies I should to hey,. your autograph Sell me that ' Taking of there of memo the lady wr upon ik "Received hem Baron Redact -41d the sum of 1,000 fames for the h0011111i of Baran &wheeled reed is, thanked leo and. handing bee la noes for the amount nemed. atast away delighted with the Chimes. Pirates. It has been thaerted that China was • fond mother of pirates before %holiest pyr amid was built, says • writer in Chant berm' Journal, but, whether or no, It te certain that In no part of the world has this profession nourished during the pre. ent oentury as on the meat of China 'The piratical centers now, as half • oentury ago, are Amoy and Macao Methods have changed somewhat io the peat few rears by reason of the vigilance of the armed -eruiser• that prowl around. The pirates no longer cruise boldly la the open seas; but, lamming from their spies that richly laden junk will le••• • given place on a given date. they plan Se intercept the vessel In the shoal water soar thecoarn or in some river or arin of the the where meddlers are not likely Ito be found. They suoceed In rifling the cargo and, if necessary, tn scuttling the ship In perhaps two eases out of six. We bear of theme tocurrenoss only when the vessel attacked happen'. to be British Not more than four yeses ago a steamer brought into Shanghai the crew of • smell bark which bad been rifled by pleats, esti est on fire. PFlIDE. GOES, ETC. a die ...rip Provost. so Illestratre She had fieeetirlybecome minged and she wo.hed to Impress her future spout's IvIth her hotieew Hely prowess, so when he came to take her out the other evening and preised the pretty little hat oho worn she flushed all up with pleasure an the an- swered "Thank you. I made It myeelf." After the proper surprise and gratifica- tion on hirpart had been expressed in the appropriate way they started off repining. the feather In the little hat bobbiros up and down over the brighteet and happiest of feces, and all went as merry as a mar- riage mnrn until they reached the corner of the square. It was windy there -very. Slth liad to brace egainst the guide with 111 her strength, and of fourth mho pot down her head the better to withitaud them. Unlucky moved lift fingers hnd been eresh or her threed scan., for barely bed the firth bleat eons sweeping by before another canne--the pretty feather, bent •nd strained, lay flat agetnat the crown is If tryine its beet to be good, and then iv ith • sudden, twisting along the pavement "Oh, Charlie, my feather, my Amber I" shrieked the agen170f1 maiden. and Char I1A taking In the •Ittintion at • 'lane., gave sham manfully. Rut to ne avail. The winked thing bed got • good 'start and kept it. Tin night was dark and delusive puddles plenty, and somewhere or other that feather sank from view. and the young man was forced to return empty banded to meth deepening young woman, who elutehed frantically the gaping wonnd in her heedgear and demanded loudly bo be taken home. The last seen of them they was climbing aboard a return ear, the young man bravely smothering • desire to laugh, the young woman eel anntly having just as lard a time to keep back her teary. But It's more than likely that the nett time she'll teat her sawing in the winds thet wander through her own back yard before she boasts tee loudly of bow handl- work. fa Peeper Terre. "Yon have • team of terriers foe your WY wagon. heel' you, JOBlin71 Hew MI you hitch themf" "Black and tandems, str."--Chtnage Mr. Justice Ball, an Irish judge, wee Doted for his 111111tIffing manifestations of ignorance, but whether they were real or pretended has never begin clearly estab- lished. Re tried a case .In which • man wee indicted for robbery at the house cif a poor widow The first witneee was the young daughter of tho widow, who Iden- tified the prisoner as the man who had en- tered the bonne and smashed her mother's chest "Do you say that the prisoner at the bar broke your mother'm cheat?" said . the "He did, my lord," anewered the ere "Ile jumped on it till he smashed It en- tirely '' The judge turned to the crown eounesi and seld • "flow le this? Why is not the prisoner indicted for murder/ les„ surely have killed her. '' was • wooden chest "-Contbill Mager Her oeeneettosi. "I'here goes ti ....nom whit mekse het living ont of htieh lb 7." "She's a baby', nuree."-Philadelphla rally keens ere.11. • "Has your heehaw' fully recovered fres bis stony exporter], I' "Oh, millet Ile Lode fault vett). the victuals erery day ro.w "-Cincinnati En- imwoods NORWAY PINE SYRUP HEALS AND SOOTHES BRONCHIAL CURES COUGHS COLDS. AXY REMEDY A ran