The Brussels Post, 1890-4-4, Page 3APRIL 4, 11:90
LIFE IN A SUGAfl-BUSNI alit 11110 Ih'ewrlarh �l ally 1411 r11'l^hlll'fi toothy
ie e0 e11.u,r, l of fallen tlulhers an4 unlet•
lite I, that le the summer mmnttx one ran
drive over tuarly overly portion of ft with a
horse and buggy. 'the mall streams are
Row the danuoks Made Maple bridged and gond road. aro foetid on us
Syrup in the Past and Row Hfdos. If thele he a eIoerful Hpot en earth
It is Made at Present, dllilig the s11n1111r•1' nlont)n it's the farmers
- Hilgal'•plaL'e. port are the fittest ammeters'
- in the world and the aquirrel do the pronto of
1
Marl 13.1 '
flnoxlil a� n
Pr •r Y
vl ntallwa
a mss in It lIZ
a anUfa t T
One Hap Ko
Pt t
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Ill to bet �r
ttehwt t t ,
6 n 14 su g:Ir-bush a d o L•
nl f
Even Paee with the Times-•Thp times in tel atn•ing they place in easy :enol
oars of corn, lbecause (they enjoy tiro coin.
Sugaring Season. of the smarms near t 1e Hllger:11ou 11 'L f1. W
11 1N the Farmers, Carnival Month,- sugar puny of the lively mature", W
Parries in the Woods. -The Old and are Tudto dolne8til',
Young' Matte s,.'O, To -day the maple saga•-bnuh is In every
way truly home -like. Near the comer of
About (bio 01388011 of the year the young fifty or more acres of hardwood thither land
and old of many portions of Canada realize -mostly maple, a £ew b1301811 and birch --you
that sugar season is at hand and rho long kind a commodious sugar-lmUse, one MOM
looked for picnic is within their grasp. The of which Is much larger than the entire
butternuts have nearly all boon ornuhod, a house of seventy 'ears ago, In this well
goad portion of the suer has filled its m113- (floored room are stord the buok(lti
sunt, although thorn is always a reservation !during the summer and in the spring-
loade for haying, 13ut to 'sugar." In thin, time 1t is used for kituhen, reception
like all others, things aro not as they used room, parlor, or dance hall, In it you
to bo. ,An age ago the farmer and his boys, !will too it lino brick arch, an evaporator
,la
Welt ofteu
THE BRUSSELS POST.
HIS MAJESTY NEAR CATCHING IT, A:_GRIOULT URAL.
rills Beggars ('em' 'Within One rl1' 'I're14110.
Jug Ilse Essuir'or or China
A few woke age, the young Emperor
(.'hula had a harrow eaei1p1' front
thorough tramming, if not Norse:
the hands of a party of hogga
in his 'aphid, 1t in favorite p11118iule
the pang nl S m !r •ar r
1
to :militia
br
J b 1 r in i tum
Chines clothes through tho streete of 1
king, tolonnge duound. the carnet's, 3111(1
(11.1111S his train the Most erowdcd rest:
tints in order that he may learn wino 11
auhjcuta think of Kinn and (lis (;ovor:ane t.,
1h runs no risk of having his id'mlity
iewered while he is thee doing the town,
for in Puking the art of photography is not
r>racth(d, and emote: mildly 11m people at
largo have no idea mf the personal appear.
swat of their sovereign,
'rho Emperor had got but a short distance
from his palace oil one of theme trips of in-
vestigation late one afternoon of lust tnoltit.
when hu n11W a Chinese beggar pinking
the pocket of a respectable merchant. The
Emperor promptly caught the beggar by the
black of his blouse, cuffed his earn, told forced
um to return the merchant the attar stolen
vont his pocket. Nov this performance of
he Emperor xaS mulch more remarkable i11
'eking, then it would have boon in any
othol• big city of the w•o'ld. 1?ar in linking
u1',�ar8 end pickpockets aro protected by a
111,1 of In wrl L tell law, Beggary is recognised
n a perfectly' legitimate employment, awl
he hoggmrs,umst'tute'aguild tel,ioh inustor
is prime object the ntutnal pre taction of all
embers of the craft. Amy one who interferes -
vi
thabeggar(lithe nosecutionoflila employ
wilt exposes hiulse11 to the vengeance of th
uild. This vengeance generally takes th
()ugh -and -ready form of the flogging of tit
The Highway pow,
of The lute of her hide was dusky' brown,
a , Iter body' wee lead e11r1 Iter nook wits slim ;
at One. horn was 1,33.3,',) lip and the other mea-
nt 111111.1111•11,
of film was keen of vdslon and long of lhnb
1'
With r
Y r w ul 3081 d
auL short
4 Htll i- tail,
1
ie•
An �b
I 11 n ,
hk the duo l r
I I8 pu n h ,n1e-hind,'
i- pail.
ul-
is Many a hark dirt 11181' body'1 ear,
She hail been a target for all things
known ;
On many a sear the dusky hair
World grow no more where it nue,' had
grnw•it
11+wny a passionate parting shot
Hail left upon her a lasting spot.
to fail of elle yell' when the harvest was and ample storage -ronin for the tap, whili f
ended, would take their 11x08 and hie to outside 18 a thrifty poor of oxon'yyolted to f
some hard -wooded Ilculity well stocked:1 gathering sled, on which is a tub hold. L
with maples and lay out for a uppingnam• ling from tiv0nty-five to forty pail8, Like
paign, Headquarters' would be established the rest, the oxen take their dinner in the
near some matnlnoth reek ; ofttinlos 1818 :woods, and live or six "rounds' are 000111- k
was so heated that it furnisher) shelter in'ered a gond day's work. Throe hundred a
time 01 sterol and gave a bed for rho night, pails a day is called good work. The sap is t
A plum of operations was then decided upon.
Young trees about Bile and (>lt0-llalf feet ill Ij D1tAWN TO 'r)1Ji SUOAII-n(1I7Sn, 1
diaulclee were old; down, cut lip about two and front a long opont is conveyed to largo 311
feet on length, old then dig Ont, 11114 dug 81orag1-tubs, and thence to the evaporator, t,
troughs holding not far from four 00 flee or plan, kettles having long since been dia.1
11 carded. e evapora or Iso Illi ea p e hem t,
fawn
'When
1111 0' 100 of these load Tl t f 11 1 1 b
lawn manufactured large maples were parttoned orb the sap, entering at the i(
selected end by the side ofeachl was placed head of the arch, meanders across the pan a
one of these troughs. Then a cnr(1 or dozen 11nl0s or so, and an toaoliu" tem font a t
two of wood was gathered and °jailed heavy, clear, and pure syrup is produced.
Many and many a well -alined stone,
Many a brickbat of goodly sae,
And many a cudgel swiftly thrown
Had brought the tears to her loving oyes,
Or had hounded off front hoe bony back
With a Iroise like it Bowrid of a rifle crack.
Many a day had elm passed in Ulu pound
For helping herself to her neighbor's corn ;
Many a cowardly cur and hound
Marl been transfixed Dither crumpled. horn;
Maty a teapot and old tin pail
Had the farmer boys tied to her time -Worn
tail,
Old Deacon Gray was a pious luau,
Though 801etintm( tempted to be profane,
When many a weary utile he ran
o Po dLIM her mit of his growing grain,
° Sharp wore the pranks she used to play,
e to got her fill and to got away.
ttel•Imper at the haurls of as many Itegglus a
s She knew x'111( the deacon wont to tow',,
11e beggar whit has been interfered with cal
n
81)3ag''°u101 t a _ tock, two gig logs-- This is carefully set aide until " sugaring- 11
odd back 1>be veto placed in position to off day •' collets, when It 1s cooked 8111) more
support the kettle, and some largo tree near told is ready for the tub or caking.
by was out clown and that dug out into one' About twice each waelt the menet of a
immensetrough for storage. 'flus work sugar bush has a sugaring -off party. first
would use up the best part of a week, one of ell the old folks for miles around cone in on tl
the number going home at night to look ox -sleds and on foot, and a good old-fash-
nneliately summon to his assistance.
1 She wisely watched when he palmed by ;
Of comae the young Emperor know
°thin' 11h(ut this abuse, which obtained
luny decades (, ago in his 1>i' capital. a
S P t L atter
uffiug the beggar's Oars he went his way
nito unapprehensive, and brought tip in
estaurMIL but a few rods front tho se1ne of
le row. Ho had hardly taken the first sip of
gds cup of tea when everyone to the res-
taurant was started by a wild hullabaloo,
'Me landlord went to the door. He found
fifty beggars befog his house under tho
00000) ip of the fellow whose ,)haus the
mpero0 had boxed. They ordered the land-
ed to hand over immediately to them the
ounk mat who hail offended against all the
written laws and precedents of the Peking
old of beggars. The landlord recognized
cid demand as perfectly legitimate, and
trete,) to quell the disturbance by delivering
the offender•. Tho young Emperor, hew-
er, objected very strenuously to being de.
it
dlip, and while snaking his romon-
•1411Ces spoke snob. superfine Chinese that
e landlord perceived he had to do with the
n of some big -wig. As a special favor,
erefore, he offered to parley with the band
beggars till their intended victillt could
nnnou some of his friends to his assistance.
r1101'.mperorrgladty accepted the suggestion.
He despatched a messenger at once to the
Governor of the palace commanding him to
hurry to the spot with two companies of
soldiers. Tito Governor and tho soldiers
came, rescued their Emperor and lugged
the fifty beggars off t0 jail. '-17e landlord
got $1110 for his consideration. The loader
of the beggars and three of his comrades,
to 11011)011 him demand the Emperor front
e, landlord, were executed the next clay.
e rest of the rioters were imprisoned for
ruts between five and ten yoorseaeh. he
Ell
has given orders to the Peking
C01'4LLthat the authorized system of beg -
mg must go.
He never passed her without a frown,
And at evil gleam in oath angry eye
He would crack his whip 113 a surly way,
And drive along in his "ono-hors0 shay,"
a Then at Ilia homestead site loved to call,
Lifting his bars with ,'rumpled hotel,
Nimbly 50131111(1 his g(11(1et Wa11
after the otouk and bring back in the morn- poled true Is enjoyed. No ono seems to
realize that they oro glowing old. Later on
the corning generation are of haul and
About the middle of 'March the old " five. buxom girls, hopeful young men, maidens, to
pail Mille" was unearthed ;Lhe hands led and boys gather at the sugar -house. They L
hich had been doing service all winter are ill For agood tete. First there may bee lo
b tug-of-war, with anew• -lolls, in which the y
was ordered up ; pork, beans, a few pots- girls take an active pita, end at Ontario,
toes, and several loaves of home-made bread, throw m
turned over 110111 ; and own young men, with young man o whom she has on admiration 111
snow -shoos, an ax, two or three mils, the than a de she Lidos to 'shoo 88 leen " off ip
1 the garden patch. When the 0811: r. over
aagoad supply oo f some n kowder and an articlelofotnnil the manufacture of paddles ie in order. To iv
in )1 eat sugar with n spoon in the woods
b (lL'C1e as tissue -papered 1'11lor is o angoratory-tam- (rules he regarded as a violation of all the 111
youngrules of etujuet. So the young man takes t
and two blankets, 0188110(10018 for nearly 11880 11)8 " hest 31111" 08)0 nide, and sobering a so
months of " sugaring." Upon reaching the sofa -usually a large log, or if lighto: of
rock the first thing fu order was a fire, but furniture is required two 'sockets 1 of
there were no matches than, so the old inns. verted -they sit dowel and commence work so
kit was brought into service. Otte 18)1111 on their paddles. The paddles being made,
held the. " punk" near the flint-humtner and down to the 1'
caught a spark. This he mused, end soon sl syrupsa they go afore,' apdnt
had shavings from a shingle ablaze, and hr here of the syrup, and start for a snowt•-
6 b bank upon whieb they pour it. This at once
later a big fire, which was 110801' allewet1 to hardens and furnishes !a sugar repast that
go out until of no further use. At once the can net bo excelled. For a quarter of a mile
old troughs worm looked up, an ugly gashwas about. the sugar -house you will see these
made in a Inc maple, then ' gouged," pairs cooling and Dating maple sugar in its
and a spout was drivel in to carry llr•mitiv
1(1g the
mtow8 012RAn, roma, AND BEANS,
with a few dozen of eggs were gathered to- girl feet, can lr°w n anew b1t11 x1011 httntg of t
gcter, placed on the sled, 3111(iho kottlo ou She for
dime,' precision firing ata till
the sap to the trough, and when The neo Ontario maple syrup is 181 en 1v1
the slur shone sufficiently the tree gave forth tirely different article from that vended tit
aboltthustreetsoflargouttes wluuhls 1 n -I '
• 1 f g nco8o an foreign sugars. 1 3313
in 000010 two pailfuls, which nmile,maplesyluptoday teadilybringsµlagallon;ntfi
1 in the woods, and when it roaches Toronto „
one-half of a pound of sugar, 811011 as it was. (it is sold for "coots an 1 oft I 'L'f I'
its sweetness. Then the manufacturers of s, hl veto e ! Th
sugar saddled their hock- 01tesand gathered ' n 6' e E
,made of 1 31 f
m the sap, n ttrnos walking
one-half a mile � I§t
An early breakfast, dinner as hear ulerlt11111 Idr8t make of Maple sugar sells for 11 cents
as the eye and stomach could judge, 811(1131 pound, and holo you get it for 7 to 8-a
" tea" when work was (lone comforted therr1e,nstruotod article but not improved.
inner man, For Java or Mocha- syrup was a
substitute, for sirloin of beef a fete slice of
pork or the best of 110.11) broiled on coals,
and in ample supply of brown bread and
roasted potatoes made up a repast that
18„1(1(1 do the stomach of royalty good. Por
dinner a few boiled eggs broke the mane -
tiny and "at tea" most anything that was
left was eaten. Thorn is
O 0LAOE IN 1111E WORLD
whale you anal 000k beans which equals the
weeds and this is how they used to be :molt-
ed in the sugar -bush : All old earthen pot
well filled with beans, a good "hunk of pork"
and some 1)13tive molasses furnished the
foundation. Almost beneath the kettle of
boiling sap it pit was dug and the pot and
contents were buried in it and in the morn.
ing out mune a dish that no hotel or res11ar-
ant in all Canada can duplicate. At the
end of six weeks, when the party took stook,
they usually had all told, 200 pounds of tam-
er as black as Ethiopia and flavored wit4
anew, rain, everything that could come off
the trees, will now find 111011 the body of
a forlorn mouse or daring chipmunk who
had ventured too near the trough. This
was pure maple sugar something like 00 years
ago.
Another generation realized that the
world moved, and wo find a shanty ill some
fine grove of maples filled with 300 or 400
buckets and sometimes more. Outside is
an ooh for the kettle, not built of out
stone, but the (material easiest at command.
l''his is not an isolated spot ; people] hero
carne and go ; the "sugar place" is near -by
home; the wife or daughter 181 noontime
brieg6go ftp the dhnnar, and a good dinner it
is ; thot'o is a small kettle at command and a
"sugar off" 18 then in order and an flour's
sport that king, prince,. or potentate might
may, but not covet. To the asstmnng
daughter of papa, to say nothing of the
compliment manipulator of the type -writer,
the idea of a girl tramping a anile or two in
the woods, carrying dinner for mon dressed
in coarse woolens, may not be pleasant, but
mould they see that girl with hor dinner -pail
or "waxing sugar" with honest, hardy mon,
they would -realize that there is Buell ro thing
in life has enjoyym0nt. 0fttiues it is fount
no0essay to boil sap all night in ardor to
catch up 1,1t18 the flow of sap, and (luring a
"big run " this sometimes lasts fora week.
Then nearly the entire family stoves to to
bash. The lead of the house gots a little
sleep while the wife or some of tlo
children keep tho kettle full and the firm
ort -humping." A "humping firm" is what
the suga'-nnakor always enjoys. Ofttinos
these sugar orchards :oro mar oath other,,
and family visits aro in order and some love-
making is indulged in, Lads and lasses
play ' high-low.jook," and watelt the fire,
kettle, and each other,
In tho old days a very respectable quality
of sugar was made, but only a little inure
than was no008011ry for hotne use, although
000 poundo or so was aolnetinle0 exchanged
for storm -pay. The farmer who then con-
trolled
A 011(4.au ORCHARD
of 300 or 400 WOOS was recognised as ono of
rho biggest mon (11 town. At the present
time the farmer is not content with loss than
1,000 trees, and ho holds 3110111 as pardons
as 111e owing' of an orange orchard Boos his
fruit trees. Every young maple is carefully
looked after. If there ds a scrub oa1c, hooch,
or birth near by to impede its growth it is English early
• Royal Musicians,
Thorn are surprisingly many export mu-
sicians in the royal houses of Europe, Queen
Victoria and her daughter Louisa play the
piano and organ with great skill. The
Prince of Wales knows all about playing
the banjo, andhisw•ifois an excellent pianist.
The Duke of Connaught can do wonders
with the flute, and tho Duce of ladinbuegh
is hardly less accomplished in handling the
violin, Tho Czar performs famously with a
silver trumpet, The Empress of Austria is
one1,r�,f the fleeet zither p1ayerso11 the Centi-
me: The Queen of Italy does the most
:Whitenpieaes of Italian and Germa nconpos.
els of the piano. The Empress of Japan
excels in playing the "'cote" a Japanese
instrument not unlike an overgrown zither..
Tho gifted Q110011 of Roumania ds celebrated
among her subjects for her extraordinary
performa ees on the help and piano. King
aeorgo of Greece extracts melody from
ca0tanetts and wine glasses with the skill of
a variety show artist. He plitys equally
well on the Hungarian "c ntbalunt," con-
cerning which his daughter, the Crown Prin-
cess Sophie, is also learning as tomtit as two
Hungarian professors of music Can teach her,
Prince Henry of Pra08iaisone ofthebestama-
tour musicians on the Continent. He plays
the piano and violin and is a composer of
considerable reputation.
Wishing,
There's lots of time that people spend
Wishing,
In smelting some desired and
By wishing,
They seam to think, without doubt,
That anything they've figured ottt
Can in some way be brought about
By wishing.
They plant themselves open a 0hatr
Wishing,
Tho lour for working finds thein there
Wishing.
They find that labors gall and irk,
They have 310 love for any work,
Anel so they sit around and shirk,
Wishing,
If y01l'3'0 a, wish you would fulfil
Wishing.
Just bear in mind yott never will
Wishing,
7.'o matte the highest wish collo trtto
You've got a lot of work to do,
You'll never bo 0uae0833ful through
Wishing.
The Obiootion Removed,
lir. I311111s-" Maria, 1 don't like to have
that spicder-legged dodo of a Hanklnson
hanging about the house, Dom ilo mom to
see ono of our girls ? Is it possible any of i'holn
would encourage the idiot ?"
lirs,l3ilius "�lr. Hankhlsonseams tome,
John, to be a very worthy young man. Ito
conks to 800 Bessie, and shoo his aunt loft
him that 11a11ds01110 legacy ho 18---"
Mr. Bihlns (greatly nloll)fio(1)-'r 011, if he
means business I've no objection. I didn't
want him to mono hero trilling -that's a11,"
The latest rumor is that another daughter
of the Print° of VValos is to follow tho ex.
ample of the Duchess of Vito and marry Out
of royalty, the man of her choice being an
CHARGED BY A HITRRIOANE,
The Steamship er0ma Enveloped In 08is1,
l'en8,4, Wind, and Pire.
The Br1L1'sh ateanship Crolna, Capt. ,Lord,
which left Dundee 011 Feb. 13, got into port
last week with a tale to tell Capt. Lord
says the barometer began to fall on the 20th,
and by 0 o'clock was down to 28.90. The
gale increased from S. S, E. to east, with a
terrine downpour of rain, intermingled with
flirt. At 4 o'clock that afternoon the wince
veered to southwest and tho sky olatieel,
leaving a den8omass of lowering clouds to
the no'tltwvard.
For an hour this black plass hung station-
ary ou the horizon, and then to the astonish-
ment of the crow began to bear clown o11 the
Crania. As it crone 11018/01' it towered up as
a thick wall of white mist and foam, and at
()o'clock it struck tho ship, whi0h, • in a
moment, 0808 enveloped in a cloud of 6,0131
spray that made it impossible to see the
mastheads from the deck, A veritable hur-
ricane descended on the ship, and the first
blow she received sent her over on her bean
ends, although not it sail was set.
The hurricane blew everything from the
dock that would go. Weather clothe and
boats Covers were whipped up and married
off in a twinkling. Icor throe flours the storm
Did not abate its force, Flash after flash of
lightning accompanied the storm, but by 9
p. In, its force was nearly spelt, Tho next
day the wind blow strong again from the
northwest. On the 22d another storm, this
Hine from the southwest, tackled the ship,
and while at its height a big sea broke o1
board, smashing the bridge and bulwarks
ant) starting the wheel -house. Tho Creme,
got olear of this gale without further damage,
and the next morning passed. through fields
of ice, mostly in tho last stages Of decay,
from the warm weather which has been pro -
veiling oft the Banks.
Tireat-Grandmother at Fifty.
The youngest groat -grandmother in Amor.
ice probably lives Hoar Pomona, California,
Her nano 1101 Francesca Cordolla, and hor age
is but 1ift3' years, Mho is a poor Spanish
188,'13111 who has lived in that logien for over
thirty years, She was married when but
fifteen years old, and her oldest daughter
married when 11 little over seventeen yeah
old. Mrs. CO181)011 wa0 but thirty-three
grandmother.years old ahem she was a grandmother.
Hor eldest granddaughter was married last
April at the ago of sixteen years, and now
that I1 ;,,groat grandl.daughter has been born
into the family there is groat rejoicing
among tho Co'dollas and their Spaulall re.
lativos. 'Vers, 001.00110, is in superb health,
and she says that if the r000rd of the family
keeps up alto will have the felinity of holding
her groat.great.glnnd0bil1 upon hor knee
before tho blbliaal aletod time for her on
earth is measured out.
•
Takes Two to .Matte a Bargain
I'Ie-I an yours, clearest.
Sha -Sha -I'm surd I can't help that,
Nth will you be mine?
Afraid not ---that's something .188nal help !
Tho London ally Council have eat outfrom their theatrical license bill the provi-
sion requiring moll actor to take mita license,
If Chicago marmot sloth r'aisothe guarantee
fund of L$10,000,000 the World's lair will bo
taken away, and probably given to No1v
York,
Helping herself to his standing corn ;
Eating his cabbages one by one,
Hurrying hone when her work was done.
Itis human, 3x0010118 were quiok to rise,
Anil striding forth with a savage oy,
1V'ith fery blazing from bout his eyes,
As lightnings flash in a summer sky,
Redder and redder his face would grow,
And after the creature he would go.
Over the garden, round and round,
Breaking his pear and apple trees ;
Tramping his melons into the ground,
Overturning his hives of bees,
Leaving him angry and badly stung,
Wishing the old cow's neck was wrung.
The mosses grow on the garden wall,
Tho years event by with their work and
play,
Tho boys of the village grew strong and tall,
And the gray-haired farmers passed away
One by one, as the rod leaves fall ;
But the highway now outlived them all.
The Jersey Cow as a Cheese Maker.
Tho Jersey cow is considered pre-omi-
nontly as a butter cow, with her most pro-
fitableusein that direction, on account of
the large proportion of cream contained in
her mill.. Consultors of cheese need not be
told that its excellence depends almost
wholly on the quality of tho mill: front which
it is prepared, as in further well indi-
cated by the oonmer01al terms of cream
cheese skint 1 t d'
milk from w'I1ch It was made may have
been whole milk 0rskinunedl and robbed of
its ocean, If the milk be poor in butter,
the cheese must be equally so, and will
grade 130003-0 31 to its richness or deficie00y
1n Or0ai11. Many persons aro of the opinion
that creast which has onto been separated
can never bo so well mixed again with the
mills that a portions of the fatty matter will
not flow out with the whey, thus rendering
the cheese leas mall, This has given rise
to some dismission as to whether rich Jersey
milk can be profitably made into choose
without skimming.
According to the late Professor Arnold,
while the Jersey is emphatically a butter
0008 her mills is rich in cheese matter and
can, without the waste of its buttery matter,
be converted into cheese as Huh es English
Stilton. Commenting on tho above Hoard's
Dairyman says : "Professor Arnold was
speaking of now warn milk, aimed imme-
diately trom the cown,)when the solids are in
the most• perfect crnnllsion, and Ileum more
f the globules of fat will be hold by the
•onuet, With mixed milk brought to 't
eatery oleo a clay the case would be difler-
nt," Peroneal hone ohoese makers Ind-
emnity agree that the sooner the milk is
et for cheese slaking after it has boon
rawn from the cow the more of butter fat
he choose will contain,
s tone 10080, a o., acorn• mg as the
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Deterioration of the Potato,
Tho well-known fact is thoroughly estab-
lished that new varieties of potatoes detori.
orato rapidly 1n yield, or, as farmers say,
"run out," to an extent not known forty or
fifty years ago. It may bo that thorn was
soon of this deterioration even then, but it
was not critically noticed, as it has been of
late years, Potato growing on to large scale
is comparatively ]modern industry. Not
only the increasing proportion of population
in cities, but the increasing use of :potatoes
by all masses, has contributed to this result.
When almost every household grow for it-
self tho fox potatoes it required, a lessoning
of the yield was loss likely to be noted than
when grown for market,
Thom aro, however, esp00i111 reasons why
o potato should deteriorate more rapidly
an it once did. It is within the last forty.
o years that rot attacked the tuber, and
s than fifteen yea's sines the potato beetle
gen its wort, destroying the leaves on
milt the quality of tho tuber must depend.
the potato is usually reproduced) from
ttings, and not from 80od1, whatever week-
s or imperfection is developed is carried
ng into the now growth, which is only a
tile' reproduction of the original plant,
o rot, wcaltoning3pq the vitality of the pota-
1100011100 cumulative, It le a fact, WO
levo, that the potato rot was first Rumen.ly fought by developing now var10181014
soot whichdoes not reproduce the
akcnod vitality of the old, But, probably
no of the cllalrioteristioo of the original
ok wee() reproduced in tiro sped, and sine
11 of tho now varieties became liable to
any, ThomThomis also a weakened vitality,
to the destruction of potato loaves by
Colorado bootie and its larva,
t is not a snflloiolt argument against this
Dry that moos and plants of other Mode
ally propagated by cuttings do not show
81111me tendency to degenerate 180 does the
a1o, So far as known, this tetdenoy do
potato has only been developed within
past fifty yea's, and is amply explained
diseases and injuries to which the potato
w11)3111 that: time been suhje0ted, So
as a plant is entirely vigorous and
lthy, a cutting from 11 reproduces the
0 cllaraeteristl0s. Bat lot its vigor be
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Willi 11eW Varieties, as they are usually
More produ,•tive the first few years
their fntroduetion. The rea8an13(g
given 18 lm(1rnthtedly the explanation
admitted feet.
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t. with ;Revolution at Berlin .A Royal Wolman toy''.
a fro- I the Prinoe of Wales at the Prussian
from
vigor, Capital- A. Sensational Murder in Eng -
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11fu'1• was olio of the first 10 note and the first to
(Lh°Pa W044t1111 to the World, 11118 asserted itself
0'1 the this week in a fashion w-llleh luras"aeut1
aI
Europe into a state of half -frightened
admiration, apprehension, and 108t0n1Nhnelt.
The German Bolperor do new virtually his
own Chancellor, us Bismarck predicted he
I
was x4)0111 lie ane day 0(1' ether, 111131 lleuooforth
as he u )on the whims and assiona of two leen,
at the . P
flim- the Kaiser and the. Czar, will depend
the peace of Eaton The wer1J11ippers
of a rising sill have been extolling the
virtues and abilities of Con. v011 Caprivi,
Tho Heroin Engineer,
:That 08318 a brava deed, The engineer
is 111.13,1. I lien:."
" Yrs, gin body lies in yonder ear,
talking with the. noble fellow' just
Ht1pped on the (ngiee that night,
'rovideure depot," staid my old friend,
self also at engineer.
The morning papers briefly nlent
the foot that " at engineer on
boat train last ndg(ht sacrificed lti8
life, and thereby staved the entire train
of passengers from rlentruction," The n
would have been longer, and the head
more con0p1vens had ft been a case of
scandal 133 n ehul ell or the fall ohs bank0a0hlcr, This differenceis not the ehniee
of the newspaper uulkers. Good 'seeds are
not " taking" hews in the smacking armee
that bad deeds are. J910 crowd is hungry
for carrion. The newspaper must sell to the
crowd, or it does not pity. The 3,30x(1 is
not 110001e. A heroism is a rebuke. to the
o ow'1, It seems to day, " You 4„1)181 not
have done that, you are too selfish.
world have jumped off'the engine and s
your meal life.' Sn the crowd casts
idyl of a 8on1'8 Majestic deed aside, The
crowd turns to the story of some Sunday.
school superintendent t'8 embezzlement. ; while
reading that the crowd can rub its hands
and say. r' Sltneking !' We Would not have
done that. Yat we make no profeasi0u8,
"lint I think any one of our passenger
engineers would do the same thing, ah'," re-
sumed any froin(b "I know them. Pardon
lite, I have been one of them for five -and.
twenty years, You see the drivers of 'ex-
press trains are selected men picked
oulled to get the bust. They are sober, r
nervy, very intelligent, and of eaten
experience. They are very often men
finer fiber than some of tho officers of
road. A fellow often goes to be an o
mamma ho is cousin to a director, or nephew
to tate president, But that rule doesn't work
in the cab of a through night express. °
The gray-haired knight,'of the throttle
invited me to rade down the next twenty-two
miles with hint, There was no opportunity
for conversation, as we leaped forward into
the mist and darkness of the night. The
ponderous mass of living metal, with a h
of lire and a spirt 08 invisible as my n
bounded over the snowy earth till My whole
nervous 81Nt0in was 00n001ntlwte( ill my eyes.
Yet I could see nothing, 80ar0317. '1'130 flash
of the headlight flew o, barely live rods be-
fore us, like a 10Zad'a 8ntile; it actually
make tie goulislt gloom more intense and
fearful. The let breath of the monster, as,
ioted
the
own
load the now Chancellor, and have even gone
at
so -far in their self-seeking adulation 00
Hoes to 01ain1 for hien gifts of etatetman-
ship, pre:mann:II and patio 10 equal to those
possessed by Bismarck. Undeniably (len.
von Caprivi is an able elan, but his abilities
are not akin to genius, and apart front the
short period during which he was at the head
of the imperial German 11817 Ile has had no
ahnl(listrative experience, His Selection is
due in large measure le his dashing (u311f-
ties us 18 Soldier and tel his physical qualities,
for Kaiser Wilhelm, like his great auc,'8tor,
You t t•stones., love. to have big 111e11 ab00t hilt.
a„„„1d Slt3•sone of the worship ,ersiofelred to above:
the
Con. Von (.'aprivi, ]Flper8onal appearance
to count for anything„, mstheua Ulan agent
.,r08 of character 111)3) will, combining 111 a
igh degree the mra,'11rr in mode with the
frntiterin,w, blending sagacitywithpatienee,
resolution with good humor, and German
therougllnes8 with Southern fire,
The Prince of Wales has arrived at Ber-
lin and is being treated with +L degree of
deference and distinction by his imperial
nephew amusing to behold considering that
amt two years ago they were not on speaking
out, terms, The Prince and his sol are lodged
01800 in the royal palace, from which wave the
mf British, (.et'nrau, and Prussian standards.
the. They have dialed enfanille and in state;
1888,1. Troops have been paraded in their honor, and
in fact, the Kaiser ]las clone everything in
his power to show plow much he loves and
honors them. This marvellous change is not
due to personal predilection, 1)ut'to motives
of policy. It furnishes another justification
for the suspicion that Salisbury has entered
into a secret alliance or understanding with
tho Gernau Government by which in the
cart ovant of Wat• the weight of England's navy
wt, :Maine thrown into the scale against Ger-
, y's enemies.
1188 1.011 tlnl'eat was fedi with fuel, b01m011
ey0balls, till I attemped to shield thein
holding up a newspaper. But I could
effect anything, for I needled both hands '
clutch nn the springing seat. Those bid
like spots on the face of tlto night, the
signal -lamps, dashed by lea and faded lik
dance of Meteors. Ah, the jar, the clang
the dash of switches, like a passage of m
at arils, swords upon 0hi01ds.
Suddenly the driver waved his hand
3110 throug11 the lurid light and pointed o
of the wdndlow,
"It was just here. I'll toll you," he baw'lo
" all about it when we stop."
The 01ory Ito told 010 when we stopp
was Ude :
During the groat .March blizzard the o
mal was off duty. Ho was sitting, th
Monday evening when the hurricane Uro
upon Now England, at the bedside of h
dying slaughter. A messenger toiled thmu
the stele with a request front the prosiden
of the line, " As a personal favor, would 11
run an 0uginc down to to State capital t
tape the pre:dam to the bedside of hi.
dying daughter." 1811,' coincidence was itae
ominous and striking. The high official an
the old engine -driver Woe eao11 afflicted
the perilous fitness of a beloved delights
Tho president of course was ignorant of t
elgineer'84 family trouble. The two linen ha
long' been personal friends. They we
boys together, y'ear's 1)0fnre, in the sal
country town. One had inherited wealt
had been a1)1111ed an education, and so ha
risen to fine social and commercial 01ait1in
The other, poor' horn, loving his machine
Ito loved nothing else except his 110310 an
his family, had been perfectly content t
:dee 330 higher than to be tho pct, the prid
of the lino as the noblest engineer they have
Wall I such a request 1 and, Mind yo
vas a request, and not an order. T
idem know that if any one had the new
rive a Intlohine into the Math of that
, I was the follow. Somehow I seemed
orget myself, I just put myself in his
o, I kissed my sweet little Mollie, and
only minutes was on Number Twenty
n, and the president with me. It was
ugh three hoursgoin twenty-oight miles,
o did it. I landed him 131 season, too.
as with his daughter when shebegan
t well. I was stock in that out thaI
tori out to you for a whole day, within
of 111 (house, butbl000 you, yell couldn't
ver those two miles unless yotl had been
vitt, and while T was sitting there, you
gnesa how I suffered, I must have been
ing directly at the windows who my
ons little Mollie -Cod pity mel -pass -
way. 0110 was just eighteen ,oars old
n0at beautiful.'
o old man wrung my hand. I gotthlom
the cab and w'ellt leak to Illy station
nonlo tho loss secure because so real
r hero sat by the tllla181818 valve for my
01810),
so known 001111nator1vl1n loft his hone
alto the Boston Expose thtong�gh, his
est son sd11(1 with scarlet fore', dining
11'y storm. for a weep tho tortured
never heard a word of tidings. Rot
s case the little snntf0rOr recovered. The
fill wife never loft the boy's beet,
wifo of a railway man most needs have
of the 11310 characteristics of rho sailor's
The father numb away, the rhil(18011
or imprint, And I tape it that the
trees not sing half poetry 011011811
I:he wives, and children, awl mothers
way men, who often sit by the win -
111 pray 111 8101111, nights and tempos.
days, When a thrash roles them of the
breadwinner's right tarn, how little
nk of all tho sorrow, They aro rarely
Suffering is sura to fnll0w, But the
rho gives his servants their lot in life,
of forgot the brave, the obedient, aur
t0.. 1.1ow rarely do you hear of such
is boys turning out badly. A good
'31talie0 over the girls. T110 widow's
head is lighted by the snnhea1118 that
11 prayers call down ; for nit all pas.
0 forget the debt of gratitude for
Al the court banquet the raiser proposed
his uncle's health in a pretty speech, du the
course of which 114) expressed) the hope that
the united I33'itish fleet and the German army
would preserve the peace of Europe.
England rarely goes long without exciting,
1113' murder trials, and, thought these cnnnotpre-
by Mod to rival the inimitable productions of
not 1'rance'in the same lido, the superiority of
m 11 the presswork here gives a sensation of this
)11,1 sort an immeasurably wider audience. Prae-
tiaally 0veiyhody in England has been this
week reading the trial of two wretched
youths in Crewe who planned and carried
out the murder of their father intim coolest
possible way because ho maltreated their
mother and behaved like a brute generally
in the family. A certain amount of evidence
shelving his all-lonnd bestiality was admitt-
ed, but the Judge explained that this was
not defensible ground for parricide, and ac-
cordingly Loth aro under sentenoe of death.
There will be steps taken promptly, however,
to pile up huge petitions in their favor, and
nobody expects the extreme penalty will be
meted out.
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BUNCO A LA PARIS.
71(11V (11111'01.1 French Swindlers DId Up a
Patient or Pasteur.
An honest provincial, suffering like most
of his tribe from ignorance of metropolitan
" ways that are clerk," as well as from dog
bite, has been lately victimizeclby ;what may
be called the " Pasteur trialt." Aecording
to M, Dangin's own account, he had just
arrived. from Moulins with his bitten arm in.
a sling, and had asked the way to the Past-
eur Inetitute from a policeman. The
guardian of the public peace told hint to take
a certain tram, and hardly had M. Dangin
seated himself on the tep of the vehicle
when Ile was accosted by a glib young man,
who, by a strange coincidence, also had his
arm in a sling, and said that he Wile going to
be injected with a prophylactic against
hydrophobia at the philanthropio M.
Pasteur's establishment, The newcomer
directed the provincial to a small hotel, and
as it wits to0 late to go to the Pasteur Insti-
tute he promised to call for M, Dangin on
the morrOW, This Ito did, accompanied by
companion who had likewise been bitten
by a mad dog, who descanted volubly and
vigorously on the dangerit which the three of
them were incurring, " We may all be
stark, staring, raving mad in a few weeks,"
ho said, " if M. Pasteur's injection does nob
work." Intim meantime the newooiner added
that he had a, thousand francs bank notes
which he dui not oare to carry with him,
there being so many bad ohmmeters about.
Upon this Permit; the man who had first
accosted AL Dangui, pilled out a purse full
of apparent bank notes and offered to take
oharge of the money of the timid parsou.
Fears now emote the mind of M. Delwin -
the gentleman from the country -who alao
naked tho obliging Porton' to look after 1118
1110110y, a reqUatit With whioh that individual
complied readily. All three proceeded to the
Pasteur Institute. M.Dangui,of courso,enter-
etl first, the other two affecting a slight de.
lay in their movementa, and Perand stating
finally that he would wait for a while in a
cafe, The two rascals then decamped with M.
Dangin's money ; but they were captured -
although tho coin was not -and they have
just been sentenced to fifteen months' impris.
comma each.
A Terrier Kills a Cobra.
A terrier dog owned by a native gentle-.
man residing in Ihtnnochtw, India, while ron.
Mug about the compound, was darted at by a
largo, oobra snake, which, however, missed
its mum when the dog took his chance and
went for the snake, succeeding 131 getting
hold of it by the hood at onoe running oif
home with it, putting the oemmants of the
house into a terrible fright). The dog then
commenced shaking the snake, duri»g whialt
oporation it released its hold only to g,ot rt,
second grip at it ; but this time t unfortu-
najely caught it below the hood, thos giving
the snake a chance to give it a bite on tho
lip This so infuriated tho dog that it
tiihtenedits grip and severed. the snake in
tho mouth and died in few minutes.