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** ' •> > * V ? - - -r-1 • • , ; v LrmniERiiiiT. POINT. W|5 rATCHWOOK llltKAB, i.i'si; f ' ' r ; . *, t1. V ~ S»-v- tER LITTLE GAMES, . • BY AB8XK C. ATKEKVKR. tell of me, and III have to be oareful," 1 mused, "but I'll bead her. * She didn't come tooling around otir house, not mnch! She made dad go 1 to i:er. He became real attentive and I troubled for what might happen-- j un'il I resolved on a deperateplan. I Tii.it day I wrote a letter to Richard j Dayton, wko lived in the city, and, as I | happened to know, was very much in j love with me. This is what I wrote: . j "Dicky, my boy, if you'll come onl "eiui abe drew the thread; hee quick and stop this love affair of »> ; dad's --nip itteetotally in the bud. Ill-- ""M,t *»«"«*»«» vos, I'll promise to be yours always, In real earnest" J "Xow Miss or Mra Bessie, you're in the toils--or soon will bo. Yon know hnw handsome Dickv is and how rich: he's worth a dozen of dad in that re­ spect. I'll look on and see the fun.* Dicky comes sneaking ever from his anut's on the following night ancLwe arrange everything. "You're sure you won't be jealous/" Peagy, darling?" "Me jealous! Me!" I cry, indig­ nantly, "no indeed, if you really get smitten with the fair Bessie, Til say goo.l riddance to bad rubbish." " I t 's hardly fair," he says, hesitating a bit, "but you re so freakish, Peggy: I'll do most anything to make vou Bay 'yes.' " Then such a state of affairs as turned up. Poor old dad got the mitten double quick, and he came to me for comfort. "I'm not very well, Peggy, and-- and--perhaps it's the weather." "Oh, y s," I say. sitting down in his lap and hugging him. "It's very ugly, gloomy weather, bat I've got something Jto tell you, dad, that will chase away Ml the dark clouds and cheer you up aw f u i ly. I'm going to get married." "Going to get married, child! "Why you're only " "Eighteen lait May, dad, and I'm go­ ing to marry--now guess who." "You're joking, Peggy, love; you never had a sweetheart." "He, he! Oh'dear! what a goose of an old dad. I've had dozens und I'm going to marry Dick Dayton the first of next month--if vou're willing." "Dick! Why he's " "No he's not, he's only flirting with a flirt. There he com^s up the walkt-- but aint you glad, daddy, darling ?" ! "Glad! tut, tut! Oh, yes, if you are liappy. I thought your life lonely, and that I'd maybe bettar " dad hesi­ tates sadly. "Not at alL I'm the one to marry and give you a home, a fine one in the city, and Dick's promised to let y6u and I run it to suit ourselves; he'll tell you all about it." After that dad shied off from all the ladies but me, and' never dreamed of the games I played to save him from Happy dad! >*«•* fclmnRfct thoncht sho-- MI of (h«ir toya, my dou llttt* boyi, Alfcwwk'l cnmoWil leiitid Walter Witt »w» t y «araoBt air. HOMUf.it>. brgh f out th« world of lMtt (JlMiiua 1 in th i. . n Ini\ j ; And nliowom from •)> cy flows f Statu In 11 isr»> t th 1.U1 tlitre. A'twl them each to a th<uib2<£ tSueh t,n>- humls to now I; Through lii'i needle's be ("i'wtt forty yeanigo , And olio rhowed the way most patiently t l'v> draw it to au i fro, take each sUteh," she eo£d, : ' E v i n a a f v i i c a i i I n " This wity. that way, iu und out, (bay Coo tit a i "line, twe-, tireB." ' i'{,; She baby, bound by tho droning svupyL . *' " Jtell aslc-op on h?r kueo. ' * > * ° Together sh" ba tfxl the pieces, , Th« «ombei ttn>i ihe gny, *..**!,, " Prom cloHi ttt'.id proas, from baT>y V areis, <. Yellow inj ) gre u nul gray, i! I/" •; And tho mother sinllrtfl a: h*r boys boguiW#} For they thought 'twas only play. Lo-einglv over the pretty work ' Their little fingers Hew, . With stitohefl atroag though crooked and long, 'Twa* done bef ,ro tbe/ knew. And with priile they tol l of thoir IXubjr -. Who made one square of blue. . T^faa forty years ago. you know, • Wlie.e can too children be? Th i r-'cioua spr-'ad now covers my bed. For Willie married mc. * «' ' And Walter small, is largo and tall j . And be has babies tlireo. " J- Th« other? Ah, he went to God While yet tho quilt was new. ThorVg not one turead of the patchWotk ipntd -i»ii tenderly wt> viow. • '• Aft tti'j baby's square in the oorner tlur*,•?; #' "I'tnit littio squnro of bluA --Hood Honnckm'inng, I am an only daughter^ and dad and I live in Possum Hollow, in a great old atone house all alone, except the wider-servants. I'm chief cook and bottle-washer and I'm enretnl to let no one forget it--at least no one who has -an inkling daddy-ward. Dad's been a widower ever since I was 12 years old; I'm now 18. He owns one of the finest farms in the county t Mid I don't intend any step-mother ! shall share it yet awhile. Not much! Folks 'low I'm a "piece," and I guess I am, for I'm a chip from the old block --I came in one of saying from the bid blockhead, but dad aint that, he's only getting old--and rather "queer." i ""pw a juu He's real good-looking, though, if he ^ majbe bettar is65, and la! some of the young chits *afc'a 00,11 ̂ make eyes at hira. He! he! Gracious! What ftin Ive had! There was Widow Green first that came a-botbing in "to show poor Peggy a bit about the work." Didn't I send her a flying? Guess so. I jrst pre­ tended to take it all in and she was sweeping the parlor when dad , . * - came home to. supper. How she designing women blushed and giggled and said she just happened in and so on. Then it began to pour down rain and I knew she was good for all night. Alter supper I saw how tired and bored poor old dad was, and I bundled him off to bed, pretending I thought him a trifle ill. I came back and took the widow to our spare chamber and there I left her. It was chilly and the bed was cold I knew, but I'd tried to have it warm, and just as she tumbled in there was a shriek that 'most scared poor old dad to death. "Goodness! Peggy, what ails that woman?" "Nothing," I say, carelessly; "she's rather frighty I guess." •"She's hollerin' 'thieves' and 'mur­ der;'let's hurry," and I declare to gra­ cious if dad didn't go hopping up those stairs with nothing on but his scarlet flannel shirt and drawers. I followed slow like, thinking how much dad resembled the base-ball fel­ lows, spryness and suit, when he flung open the door of the widow's chamber. There she was, out on the floor in h«r long white gown like a dress; but you just ought to have seen her! Xo hair worth mentioning, no teeth at all, and so funny and thin and horrid. Oh dear! dear! "What is it, widow?" cried dad. "Oh goodness me! a snake or bear; oh something dreadful in the bed!" "Its nothing 'tall I declare but my old black cat; he! he!" I laugh. "Why she'd only have kept your feet warm. Come out with you, pussy!" Then dad remembered how /ie looked, and the widow remembered how she looked. He scudded down stairs like a flash, and she jumped into bed, and I suppose slept the sleep of the just. I didn't. I couldn't--for laughing. That was the last time ever Widow Green came to show me how to work. The next female that set her glances daddy-ward was Miss Jennie Clnre, an oldish like girl, but with real good teeth, and hair all her own. She came around to sell a book, dressed fit to kill, and I saw dad was struck--a little. "I'll fix her," I said to myself, "I'll do her up, if I die for it." ^ There was to be a Sunday-school pic­ nic on the next Saturday, and if that •ly thing didn't get dad to promise that he'd take her in onr carriage. Ugh! ^ Friday night dad got out the carriage and washed and brushed it until it glis­ tened ; then he came into the house and asked about his best clothes. "Daddy, they're all right; don't fret, I always see to them." ! The next morning he was up qnita early, and soon dressed himself, and began to hurry me awfully. I got all ready, then went down in the cellar and called for dad. Down he came fast as could b& "Go alow!" I cried, "the molasses barrel's a-leaking," but I spoke too late, and down dad sat in the middle of it Dad got up saying bad words, and between us we found the leak and plugged it, then we went up stairs. "Oh, dad!" I cried, "vou're 'lasses all over, from head to foot You'll have to take those clothes off and let me sponge 'em." That was all he could do, so, still mad as a hornet, he got into his old duds. Somehow or other I managed to do a bad job at Sponging. I got them very wet and had to lay them in the sun to dry and it took nearly the entire fore- aoon, hut, as I kept telling dad, "It couldn't be helped." We never got started till plmn' 12 o'clock, and when we stopped for MiBs Clure she was gone. When we ar­ rived at the picnic grounds we found •he'd gone with young Dan Swopes and wouldn't look at dad. I wanted to shout but didn't dare. "That's ended," I said, "but there's more to follow," and sure enough there was. The next I had to tackle was pretty, plump, Bessie Larkin, grass- widow and a daisy. "It's nothing but the farm she's after," I thought "but she don't hold the deed yet." Dad was struek worse this time than •ver. I could see it only too plain. > "She's pretty and sharp; she's heard M t-4,A K,' Bnilding a Mill in Morocco. There is only one machine mill in Morocco. It belongB to an enterpris­ ing citizen of the United States nam<Jd Cobb. Its erection wa3 utterly illegal. The prejudice against machinery among the Moors is as strong as it used to be among English hand-loom weavers. Mr. Cobb's application for the authori­ zation of his mill was rejected. The Prime Minister would not hear of it, the Sultan absolutely forbade the new­ fangled method of grinding corn. Mfc. Cobb, however, went "right ahead." He built his mill, he putin Ms machin­ ery. Only one finishing touch was necessary. The grinding-stones were duly delivered at the wbart Bnt this gave the authorities their opportunity and they calmly impounded them. It was useless going to the Moorish gov­ ernment, so Mr. Cobb applied to the United States representative. He got a formal reply, informing him that since the Prime Minister and Sultan had both forbidden the execution of the pro­ ject it would te idle for him to expeqt any assistance from the formal repre­ sentative of the United States. That letter was all that Capt Cobb needed. He took it to the local authoiities, who had his grinding-stone* in charge, and asked them if they could read English. "No!" "Then read this," cried Capt Cobb. There were the arms of the United States: there was an undoubted official signature ;and Capt Cobb said he was going "straight ahead" with his mill. Nobody knew what complication might ensue if this determined American were disappointed. The stones were given np, the mill was finished, and the next time the Sultan came that way he sent all his corn to be ground by machinery. --Liverpool Mercury. % A Showman's Trick. We are continually deceived because we are so much disposed to take things for just what they seem. You have seen a showman sink into a tank of water with a lighted cigar in his mouthy and after remaining at the bottom fc half minute or so, during which the smoke comes up through the water, emerge with the cigar still between his lips, unextinguished? Of course you have. And you had no doubt that he was really able to smoke under water. But a showman who has retired on the profits of gulling the public now tells how it is done. Says he: "Just as I throw myself backward to go down, I would flip the cigar end for end with my tongue and upper lip, get the lighted end in my mouth, closing my lips water-tight around it. A little slippery elm juice gargled before going in prevents any accidental burning of the month. Going slowly down back­ ward, I would lie <*t full length on the bottom of the tank and> blow smoke through the cut end of the cigar. Just as 1 reached the surface again another flip reversed the cigar, and there I was smoking calmly. The reversing is done so quickly that nobody notices it" Anybody can smoke under water after that--Texas Siftings. Probably He Left That at the Store. "You met a party of friends and had a little time la it night?" remarked a younu; wife to her husband, who, not- withs&ndiag that he is married, likes to have an occasional time with the bovs. "Yes; how could you tell?" "I smelled your breath when foil came in. Yon didn't have as gay a time as usual, however, did you? "No, I can't say that 1 did. How did yon know that?" "Because your silk hat was as sleeK and shiny when you got home as it was when you started.-- Waahingion Critic. Boston's Big Boy. "I had a strange dream last night, dreamed that Sullivan died and went to Heaven. "Well?" "St Peter said and he couldn't get in, and four guardian angels baoked him." "Well?" "Well, Sullivan was inside before I woke up." "Bully for him!" --Town Topics. LYSIPPUS invented, 326 B. G., the ari of taking likenesses in plaster molds, from which he afterwards cast models in wax. LIR) Manner* Within • Few MIIM of Mt. Loula. Within twenty minutes' ride of St Lottfc, in a place called Belleville, and I can readily imagine myself in Europe, writes a correspondent. But then, this is not strange, come to think about it, with St Louis in the consideration. Here is a town of 19,000 inhabitants and they are all Germans. I am told that there are a few Americans here, bnt I have not seen, mnch less heard them. ' ProtoMy no European invantcem has drawn forth so much America* profanity as the breakfast, if ira «oepl "guides,"--American maim fish ami Fiiwk Undoubtedly the flesh of some fish is poisonous, A fish is said to justify suspicion when it has attained a size -P, ,, . . - „ , ,. I nnusual for one of its species. This Everything is German here-the men popular idea have a £rain of fcrutll with their pipes, then knitted, sailor- j \n ifc. Fish ahouUi bo discar ie(l if the like caps their blouses and their baggy brecches; the women with course shoes, short woolen dresses and big handkerchiefs folded across their bosoms; the children, with sturdy legs bright eyes, tow he:vds, and cheeks so red that they glitter; the houses with their queer gables and double chim­ neys; the fat horses, the dog--every­ thing one sees is German. There is nothing apparent that is American or progressive. I didn't feol at home as I rode through the streets of the town, and I haven't got over the feeling. But this is a good town and the in- water in which it is being boiled blackens silver. The coloration is due to hydrogen sulphide (the gas of bad ®gg3) and indicates putrefactive changes. Decomposing fish has a pale or bluish look. It is withered, sticky to the touch and foul in odor. The seller sometimes tries to hide the evi­ dence of decomposition bv taking the eyeballs out and coloring the gills with blood. Fish caught from putrid water should not be eaten. Sometimes, near large manufacturing establishments where a great deal of refuse is thrown into the water, the fish are killed and "°_d u-iZ<?n!L ! may ^ brought to market. The flesh of such fish is yellowish, soft, spongy, and of foul odor. Fish may be divided into those furnishing white and those furnishing red meats. Those of the former class, as the white fish, are del­ icate and easy of digestion, while those of the second class are richest in nitro­ gen and more stimulating. Fish should not be loft in water after they are dead, but should be f>acked in ice. Fish should not.be the chief flesh diet of peo­ ple, because it is not sufficiently stimu­ lating. Indeed, it is doubtful if any class of people would voluntarily con­ fine themselves to such food. But the occasional use of fish forms a changa which is both agreeable and beneficial. There is no truth in the popular idea that a fish diet is especially suited to the development of the brainand nerv­ ous system. Along with the fish are often classed certain crustatceans, as the crab and lobster, and certain molluscs, as the oyster and mussel. The oyster and mnssel are gelatinous, but are easily masticated and digested. The lobster, crayfish, and crab are more muscular and are somewhat more difficult of mastication and digestion. The nutri­ tive value of the oyster is not very great, but its delicacy of flavor and ease of digestion make it of great value to all, and especially to the sick. The raw oyster is probably more easily di­ gested than the cooked. The crab and lobster are of considerable nutri­ tive value, though, on account of price, they are used principally as delicacies. There is no bird that may not be eaten in case of necessity. In other words, the flesh of no bird is in itself poisonous. The same is true of the eggs of all birds. It is trne that cases of poisoning from eating quails during spring have occurred, but the poison­ ing was due to the buds of the moun­ tain laurel, upon which the birds fed. The light meats of birds are more easily digested, less rich in nitrogen and in flavor than dark meats. Chicken broth is more nutritious than that made from either mutton or beef, and is often of great value to the sick.--Ho useiotyfc • more householders here--more people who own the home isi which they live-- than in any other town in the West ap­ proaching its size. It is a manufactur­ ing town. Here is the finest s'eel plant in America, and one manufacturer has a secret smelting process which men fro !ti all over the East have been try­ ing to discover. Here is a town larger than Gales- burg, almost as large as Bloomington, that is virtually without a hotel. There are scores of places called hotels. I stopped at one which I understand is as?good as any. As I rode into the town I asked a man on the pavement which was the best hotel. He named three and told me to take mv choice. I stopped at one and asked a man ontside where the hotel office was. "In der saloon,' he said. I went in. It was forbidding and smellod bad, and I went out. I went to another and asked another man where the hotel office was. "In der sal-oon," he said. I went in. This was even less assuring than the first Then I went to the third first-class house which had been recommenced. Office in the saloon, just the same. No v>olite clerk, no picture frame full of half moons known as an annunciator, no big safe, no weary bellboy, no as­ pect of a hoteL Just a German beer saloon full of smoke and jargon. I stopped here principally because there is a stable in the rear of the house where I could put my horse. The hostler is not Joe. He is an old German peasant, and he is dressed like one, and he carries a Dutch lantern, if ever there was qpe. I have never seen a German peasant where they are planted and^'rown, but I have seen pictures of them, and this hostler was the subject for all the pictures. He called my horse "cattle," and had I not been well up in German folk lore I would have taken this as an insult to ray horse Comanche, and had Com­ anche understood him he would have kicked the daylights out of him, for he was a very sensitive horse. This hos­ tler feeds a horse as he would a steer. He asked me if he should feed my horse a peck or a half bushel of oats, and when I told him to give him three quarts he looked as much astonished as he was able. He took the cue, how­ ever, and asked if he should give the horse five cents' worth of hay. When I told him to fill the manger "jam full" of hay he looked pleased. I went in a saloon and registered my name in a book on the desk nailed against the wall. I sat down at a beer table, and had been there perhaps ten minutes when I heard a sharp, com­ manding voice say: "Hull, come 'ere!" As I am not accustomed to being summoned in this manner, except under extraordinary circumstances, I at once thought something unusual had happened, perhaps Comauehe had kicked the stable down. So I turned quickly toward the voice. It was the barkeeper. He hid the register in his hand. He crooked his finger at me and beckoned with bis head. I sprung toward him with: ." What is it ?" 7 "Was you here fer dinner?" "No." "Well, dat's all right, den," and he slapped the register down on the desk, hitched up his breeches and swaggered down to the other end of the bar. I have thought since that perhaps if this barkeeper had approached me gently where I sat, tapped me on the shoulder and said softly, "Mr. Hull, were you here for dinner?" it would have been in much better form. But perhaps he was right He probably knows his business. Supper was announced by the open­ ing of the dining-room door and the ringing of a bell by the landlord. The waiting guests stampeded for the din­ ing-room. I was the last man of over thirty to get in and I was seated before the bell ceased ringing. I went to bed by the light of a candle. The bedstead was high at both ends and sides, like a crib. I expected to find one of those good old Dutch beds that I have read about, in which the sleepor sinks out of sight in feathers, but I didn't. It was a genuine American hotel mattress, filled with corn husks, with an iocca­ sional cob and ear of corn thrown in, and a rut worn in the middle of the bed by generations of travelers who had preceded me. There were no sheets on the bed, and pillow slips, had there been any, wonld have spoiled the beauty of the pillows, for they were made of beautiful checkered red and green stuff. Breakfast was served as supper had been, and when I had paid for my en­ tertainment I rode away. Such is a first-class hotel in Belle­ ville.--Chicago News. Breakfasting in Rotterdam* A European breakfast is very trying to the temper of Americans who nave been accustomed at home to a good, warm steak or chops and hearty food. In the morniag, with a splendid appe­ tite caused by change of climate ami mnch exercise in "sight-seeing," you enter the breakfast-room with a capac­ ity for fully half a pound of good beef­ steak, to say nothing of oatmeal, or­ anges, toasts, pancakes, or \)ther lux­ uries. You sit down to the table and anxiously await the appearance of "breakfast" engaged the night before. At last the servant appears, bringing in a tray, and there is your allowance be­ fore you--a cup and saucer, a little cream pitcher containing some blue, skim milk, a larger pitcher holding about two cups of coffee, and a plate, on which are one or two "brodchens"-- i e., biscuits slightly larger than pea­ nuts. Ah, yes! I forgot to mention the fonr lonesome pieces of cntloaf sugar and the piece of butter about large enough to grease the mainspring ©f a Waterbury watch. There is your breakfast. You eat every crumb, are hungrier than before, and consult a Was Honesty the Best Policy! r The Listener is reminded by a story in the local columns of a morning paper of the discouragements which some­ times attend the doing of a good deed. The story is of a sin ill boy who found a ^'7.50 gold piece among some pennies that had been given him in change, and touk the coin back to the "young lady cashier" whp had given it to him. \The young woman promptly covered it back into her treasury, and, ignoring the small boy, "at once entered into a discussion with a masculine associate as to how the piece came in the cent compartment of the money-drawer." As the honest boy was not interested in the question how it came there, he withdrew. That was all. "Hose fa- bulcv docet," if it"docel" anything, very much the same thing that one did of which the Listener had a certain knowl­ edge. A very small boy of his acquaintance, a very honest small boy indeed, found that a dog that had strayed into the neighborhood was advertised for. He gathered up the dog and took him to the advertised address, proud in the counsciousness of having done a good deed. As soon as he had entered the , i • , „ * _ _ i weuyniw oi HBUUHK IUUIIU 111 ura buoqit U- place, which was a store, the proprie- i ford Ban Jose cheap sidewalks and fine street QUICKBtLVEE MINES. Twelve miles from Man Joso we find the New Almaden quicksilver mines, which have no equal in the world save the Almaden mines in Spain. The existence of this rich ore was known to tho Spaniards in 1824, but it was not until 1864 that work was systematically begun. No gold mines in the State bave proved so uniformly productive, and tho not earnings of these mines are between three and four million dollars per year. The mines have penetrated 2,5u0 feet below the surface of the earth, and are still going. The plant, or machinery for carrying on the great work, is something tremendous, and well worthy a long journey to inspect Deposits of asphalt found in the county af­ ter seized the dog and kicked the boy out of the store, accompanying the physical indignity with: "Get out, you little thief 1 I'll teach yon to steal my dog!" The boy came home with tears in his eyes. "I shall never, never take home another dog," was the les­ son that he had learned from his ex­ perience. Another friend of the Listener--a man this time -took back a gold dollar that he found among some pennies and felt that he must have, received at a certain place. "I will take your dollar," said the gruff cashier, thrusting it promptly into a box, "but I doubt very much whether any mistake has been made!" He did not take the trouble to explain what right he had to the dol­ lar if no mistake had been made; he simply wanted the money and the credit for infallibility in making change too. How much does the world gain, by the way, by everybody's assumption that everybody else either does not know very much, or else is a rascal?-- Boston Transcript. paving. It wiiyto i in asphalt payefStu t. VI 1 Postoffloes in Mexico. Speaking of postoffices, if you go into one almost anywhere in the land of "Dios of Libertad" and ask in English for a letter, the obliging postmaster or one of his deputies will toss out the whole stock addressed to foreign names, whether it be a peck or a bushel, and allow you to select for yourself, quite indifferent as to whether you confine yourself to your own or other people's mail. Although my countrymen are proverbially honest, that is allowing rather too much lati­ tude, as has sometimes transpired, both in matters of love and lucre. I notice that they never do that way with any but foreigners' letters, the Mexicans themselves being more care­ fully served from pigeon-holes alpha­ betically arranged. Whether thia dis­ tinction is made because they are un­ willing to take extra trouble for "out­ side barbarians," or because they know too well their own little peculiarities, is a matter of conjecture. The laws against opening other people's letters are even more severe in Mexico than in the United States, but they are en­ forced only among those of Mexican birth, and Americans need expect no redress here for wrongs of any kind.-- Troy Times. , • <• ; ^ v THE language of France was first in­ troduced into England by William L, in 1066. Law pleadings were changed from French to English in the reign of Edward IU., 1362. - time vie with Washington „ 'nt, and this, too, without the importation from foreign lands, as was the cate at the National Capital The parka and pleasant drives properly come under the l^ad of "notable pointa," but in reality they are too numerous to notice iu detail You simply cannot go in any direction from San Jose without finding attractive drives, and some of thom are positively en­ chanting. THE HORTICULTUKAI/ ASSOCIATION. It was really uitficult to secure a lull at­ tendance upon the Horticultural Association, so many were engaged in out-door roamings and sight-seeing. It was such a marked con­ trast to lioveriug over huge fires or wading m snow encased in buffalo overcoats, that the delegates seemed to want to inako the most of their time by enjoy,ng the open air or visiting tho horticultural fair, which was in progress. Still there was much interest in tho proceed­ ings, and an interchange of information and experience which cannot fail to bo valuable to all in attendance. The sess ons wers presided over by Parker E'irif, of Coblen. III., and continued for three days. President Earle'n annual address contained the following explanation of why (hcv were here: It WH a nearly fifty years ago that I liad MV first dr€>am of a horticultural parndiso, as I read, in the good old Bible story, the report of that explorinc committee which Moses Bent out to search the land of Canaan, and spy ont Its resources and "to bring back the fruit of the land." Now, Moses being the wisest of his race, and the great at leader of men, did not ask l is committee* to bring back samples of tlie grain, the merino wool, the short staple cotton, or tho best breeds of live stock. Short Horns or Jer- sevs, but Dimply to bring back the fruit of the land. For Moses seemed to know that the country which could grow the boat fruits was the very best country for the chosen people of the Lord to emisrat" to. And when this first horticultural deputation returned laden with tho figs, the pomegranates, and the groat clus­ ter of grapes from tho banks of the brook of Kschol. that the two men bore on a staff be­ tween them--and I know that that cluster of grapes reached from tho stuff on the men's sbouldergAearly to the ground, tor my moth er'a greanHble pictured it that way--then Mo­ ses and Attton and Caleb and the few wise men of Israel wanted to go up and possess the land, notwithstanding the sons of Anak dwolt there, and the other tribes of like crent stature. But the mass of the people of Israel were ignorant, and did not appreciate this horticultural exhi­ bition and the promise of the better life that was possible in a fruit-crowing country.butthey grumbled and rebelled, and they all suffered tho righteous penalty for their neglect of such a nobb»-apportuuity. But I well remomber the longing with which I considered that enormous bunch of grapes and the impulse I had to go and find a country where they grow grapes in big clusters. THE LAXD OF CANAAJf. And so a few of us horticultural dreamers have come over the great fertile plains and across the thirsty deserts, and have climbed the gigantic walls which fortify you against in­ vasion, to test for ourselves the climate and the fruits of this earthly paradise. We think we like the land and the fruits thereof, and shall make a good report of them to all the chosen people of Israel. My friends of the land of Canaan, we are glad that we came. We are glad to be with you and to see the welcome which shines in all your faces. We come as fruit growers, and gardeners, and forest planters, ana builders of nomes, to greet our brethren in a land whose conditions of culture we have long envied. *Wo have come to study these new ooftditions for Ourselves ; to gain new Ideas which we may apply where our surroundings a< e less favora­ ble : to compare views as to many questions re­ garding whiob we have a common interest, and Which th* Amsrlcsa HorMeultur*! iimirtjr' Indorses with Kathustasm, IBpwial MrtMpaadiOM.) tAX Jon, UkL, Jaa. Slat, 1888. When the Amenoaa Hortieaiturai Society, In MMion at Cleveland^ Oura^ last year, voted j to hold thsir eighth annual MMuon at San Josa, California, they "bnilded better than they knew." That is the universal testimony of the delegates here who. by coming; have esoaped the terrible bliszard* raging east of the Rooky ; Mountains, and at the same time have come to the spot where Horticulture is on its native heath, and challenges comparison with the : world, without fear jf the result. ' ban Jose, whero the Association has juat held its tession, is the county Meat of Banta Clara County, and the center of all the banta Clara Valley. Its Mexican history dates back over one hundred years, but Mexican history was a half-civilized, non-progressive era, which does not count for mueh, and no Cali­ fornia town has a history worth recording earlier tnau '49. It is notable that the spot where San Jose is located attracted attention at au eany data, botii from the Mexicans and Americans. The Mexicans wore attracted there in 1777, and tho Jesuits located a mis­ sion at Santa Clara, three miles distant, the same year. Wliou, in 184^ the gold discoveries attracted Americans in large numbers to California, Han Jose W48 instantly recognized as an ad­ vantageous point Consequently, the first constitutional convention, which convened at Monterey, the temporary capital, selected San Jose as the capital of the Si ate, and the first California Legislature met in this city. In those early days the capital was a fire at bone of contention, and H&n Jose fiualiy lost it; but the fact remains that the selection was the unbiased Judgmout of the early pioneers, while the removal was due to political and real-estate influences. The visiting horticulturists heartily in­ dorse tho judgment of the early pioneers. We find hero a beautiful and home-like city of 20,0JO people, the fifth in size in the State, Wide streets, paved and macadamized; eloc- tric-light towers, street railroads, and an electric street railroad nearing completion; churches and schools in abundance; charm­ ing drives, and in the city and county com­ bined many more notable point* than is ordi­ narily vouchsafed oue locality. NOTABLE POINTS. The State Normal School, located in a beau­ tiful tract of land, thirty acreB in extent, do­ nated by the city, averages 545 pupils. This institution was visited by the Horticultural Association in a body, aa were many other points of interest Here, too, is the Convent of Notre Dame, with two or thr.?e hundred pupils. Within two miles is the University of the Pacific, an extensive Methodist institution, with 800 pupils. At Santa Clara, three miles distant, is the famous school of the Jesuit Fathers, with 400 pupil.-». These, with five public schools, would seom to supply both San Jose and iMinta Clara County; but these do not comprise all. Within the county and twelve miles distant from Kan Jose is Palo Alto, where Senator Stanford is building the Leland Stanford-Junior Uni­ versity, as a monument to his deceased son-- an only child, who died while traveling in Eu­ rope. Senator Stanford has emlowuil the inMi- tion to the extent of $&!,000,000, mailing it financially the strongest institution iu the country. With such an endowment thei'e is no doubt it will also be the strongest intel­ lectually when completed, as so maxnitircntly planned. In addition to tho university Sena­ tor Stanford has here his country seat and world-famous stables, where the finest run­ ning and trotting stock in this country is pro­ duced. Fifteen hundred acres, over 500 horses, and buildings and employe4 in pro­ portion, give a faint idea of the exteut of thesa stables. A night school for the boys and rational amusement for all are provided on the grounds. THE IJCK TELESCOPE. Many of the Horticulturists enjoyed a delightful drive--albeit there was a thin coat of mud on the road--to Mt Hamilton, twenty- four miles distant This is the site of the L ck telescope and observatory. San Jose and v.cinity seem to have been especially favore l by public enterprises. James Lick, a Pennsylvania bachelor, was attracted to California by the gold fever of '49, and, as the saying goes, ne "struck it rich." His mining work and investments were especially fortunate. He lived, personally, in a very parsimonious manner, and his increasing fortune was never diminished by any luxury for himself. In spite of such a life, he provided in his will to • turn hiB great property over to truBtess for public institutions; and the greatest of all was #700,000, which was to be Uevoted to this observatory. Tho lenses for the telescope were only put in place a few weeks ago, though it is twelve years since Lien's death, and eight years *ince the work of building the observa­ tory was vigorously begun. San Joae is but niuety feet, wh le the observatory is over 4,000 foet above the sea leveL It is literally a monument to the founder, for his remains lie under the marble pier, which, thanks to his liberality, supports the most powerful telescope in the world. The visit to Mt Ham­ ilton was one which every one enjoyed This trip will be a pilgrimage for visitors to San Jose for all time, and fitly so, for the great telescope is one of the wonders of the world. In fact, it is bringing scientific men to see it from distant foreign countries, as well as from all portions of our owa MMoa to prevent --ntTin il--tfantiii ot tetestt!, ani the dJscanion #HeaewMd atwwSaatiwvaentuM.tia&^^MrtTa OOTUMK and mnlnnnna HIIIISSHIM UUFFG.* were adopted. A * ̂̂71TKUHTOF Wisconsin, favored lertUtatur THE --» -- the dtscnetjon which followedshowedthere was no saeh naoeea.ty in Califerai*. Mr. Wilcox said the soil of a great part of Santa Clara County was »>.«^tttiSe In boring artesian welis it had been found that a good garden soil extended to a depth of over five hundred feet Five cropa of alfalfa could be produced in one year without -»»*t rially diminishing the production. As much as eighty-five bushels of wheat bad been raiseu to the acre, but amall traits, etc. were found to be more valuable, and peop'le auit raising wheat He had raised, he said, I 000 ponaas of onion seed from two aerea ' At various stages of the proceedings there were similar developments, showing the labor and cxre required for the production of lruitin the Eist was very much more than In California, and the Californians, being on 'hiir native heath, clinched their arguments by citations and illustrations of practical ex­ perience. AT HOETICUIvTUHAIi EAXJa The people of San Jose have erected a per­ manent building, 8i> feet wide by 106 ieet long, in which to make the Citrm and Horti­ cultural exhibit-". 'Ihe proceedings of the National Association were made especially in­ teresting by having a Citrus Fair in progress at Horticultural Hall at the same time. 'I hougii held at the most unfavorable time of the year the Eastern visitors were greatly astonished at what they saw. Santa Clara County doej not make great pretensions to being a citrus region, because the people frauKly say they can make more money out of less perishable fruit but the exhibit here thia week shows that it is a citrus region without as-, suming to be. There are several canning factories here, and so while citrus fruits grow in the county in considerable quantities, the Btaples are prunes, apricots, pears, peaches, cherries, figs, olives, etc The exhibit of these lruits, canned or dried, or both, was some­ thing astonishing. Of the smaller fruits, strawberries, raspberries. et\, the production is large, and especially of strawberries. Nine- teutlis of all tho strawberries in tho State are grown in this county, two crops a year being secured, the market time ranging from Mav to January. * There was also an exhibit of almonds, Eng­ lish walnuts, pecans, and other varieties of nuts, all produced in profusion in Santa Clara Valley. A pyramid of vegetables rising twenty- five feet high, and containing 150 to 200 pound squashes and 100-pound beets (as large iu circumference as a man's body), at­ tracted a good deal of attention from the Eastern visitors. To enumerate all the at­ tractions of the exhibit would require a vol­ ume, bnt it was a happy tribute to place before the National Horticultural Associa­ tion. THE TEMPERATURE. Ban Joso proposes to let her light shine, and has an energetic Hoard of Trade, whose rooms aro constantly open to supply visitors with all kinds of information relative to lands, prices, products, etc. One of the most comprehensive little vol­ umes I have seen is issued by this Board for general circulation, descriptive of Santa Clara County. In talking with the Secretary, Mr. EiwardB. Lewis, he showed me the follow­ ing thermometr cal record: The highest temperature during 1B8G was 93 degrees at 11 o'clock, June 8; and the lowest was *28 degrees above zero on Jan. 4, at 7 a. m. The highest for 1887 was 89 degrees at 8:90 p, m., June l'J; and the lowest was 28 degrees above zero on Jan. 28. at 7 a. m. They take tiieir observations four times a day, and every day in the year, and these fig­ ures are not tho overage, but the actual high­ est and lowest points reached during the years named. Mr. Lewis told me that the price of land in the couu'y ranged from $41) to $500 per acre, according to location and amount of improve­ ment There is, of course land held at lower and also at higher figures, but I givo an aver­ age range. To roaliza 10 per cent iuterest on $1,000 from tho products of a single acre is quite moderate, and oftentimes double that amount is produced. In fao", five acres, well handled, will support a famdy. The Horticultural Association did not con­ clude iis session here, but adjourned to meet at Riverside, in the southern part of the Stat«, 011 February ti, and in the meantime the delegates will roam about viewing other wonders as w«ll as the products of Santa Clara Valley, though these have nearly filled their capacity to the utmost limit Bixby Was Calm. of the Bixby children Was seized with a fit of croup the other night. Bixby heard the little fellow's labored breathing, and bounding clear over the footboard of the bed, yelled "Croup!" in about the same voice that the escaped idiot yella "Fire!" at the theater. s ^ Th n he tried to put his tronftrirs on over hie head, bnt finally got them on wrong side out, and tore into his shirt with it wrong side in front. "Jump!" he screamed to his wife, "there isn't a second to lose! Get the syrup of squills! Put on a tub of hot water 1 Give him something to drink! Get hot flannels on his chest instantly! Hurry! hnrry! Don't lie there doing nothing while the child is choking to death! Fly around!" Mrs. Bixby is one of those meek bnt eminently sensible and practical little women who never get a tenth part of the credit for the good they do in this world. While Bixby was racing up and down stairs, declaring that nobody was doing anything but himself, Mrs. Bixby quietly took the little sufferer in hand. "Do something quick!" screeched Bixby, as he upset a pan of hot water on the bed and turned a saucer of melted lard over on the dressing case. "Here, somebody quick!" he yelled. "Can't anybody dp a thing but me? Bun for the doctor, some of yon. Give the child some more squills. Is there anything hot at his feet? Give him aconite. He ought to have a spoon of oil. If he don't got relief instantly he'll die, ;;nd here there's nobody try­ ing to do a thing but mo! Bring h m some warm water with a little soda in it. He ought to ha 0 been put into a hot bath au hour ago. Heat up the bath-room! What's on his chest! Great heavens! has the child got to die because no one will do a thine for him!" Mrs. Bixby quietly, and unaided, brings the cliild around all right and sits with him until daylight, alter she had quieted Bixby down and got him to bed. And next morning he had the frail to say at the office: "me of 11 y little chaps nearly died with tho croup last night, and I had mighty hard work bringing him around all right, bnt I did, after working like a trojan all night. It's a terrible disease, and scares women nearly to death. They fly to pieces right off. A person wants their wits about them. You want to keep perfectly cool and not fool away s second in hysterics. Thatfs where a roan has the advantage over a woman in managing a case of cronp. It's mighty lucky-1 was at home to take my little chap in hand."--Tid-lHts. An Unkind Retort. Sardannpalus Jones, of Austin. Texas, married an old maid for her moneV. She was distressingly ugly, but Ler blink ac­ count was healthy. As soon as Surdauap- alus got his hand on tue money, he beg in to spend it in a reckless maimer. Mrs. Jones remonstrated. She said: "It's shameful the way you squander mv money. In a few years I shall be entirely ruined." "Ruined in a few years!" exclaimed Jones, brutally; "why, confound it, yoa were an old nun before I married yov." A POUR-YEAR-OLD boy who has been in the habit of repeating a formulated pnyer every evening, surprised his parents the other night by saying: "O God, I wish vou would make the trees walk." When're­ monstrated with for his singular requo-t be replied; "You say God can do anything and I want to see the trees walk, aud I •han'tpray foranythiug else until they do." WHKN ia a faiap in the window like a tombstone? Wfclftn it is set np for a lata husband. THE more jon puff a cigar Ihe smaller it becomes; and that is the case with some men. IT is well that the dentists can meet and exchpnge views. The dentists are certain to so lojfg as they pull together. A YOUNG couple who proposed visit- iDg the summit of Ml Washington registered at the Glen House as "Two for ascent" A DROMEDARY is a camel that has got his back up twice. But this does not apply to animals of the human species. --Carl Pretzel. "No, DARLING, " said a Burlington mother to a sick child; "the doctor said I musn't read to you." "Then, mamma," bogged the little one, "won't you please read to yourself out loud.--Burlinq* ion Free Press. ' THE proprietor of an apple stall, who was called as a witness the other day, informed a magistrate's clerk, who was rather aggressive, that she lived by the fruits of her industry. The clerk took a pinch of snuff, and was silent for a> few minutes.--Judy. TRANSCENDENTAL Wife--Yes, Charlie, dear, I went to see the renowned Madam Seer, and she told me my past and future, and my full name- " Sub­ lunary Husband--Told you your fool name, did she? There must be some­ thing in it.--Detroit Free Press. "PA, " inquired Bobby, who was read* ing the paper, "what is a stony glare?" "It is the expression which comes over a man's face at church," explained the old man, "when the contribution box ii held before him, and he has neglected to provide himself with ten cents ja change." > "I THOUGHT you took an unusual &• terest in my welfare," remarked an un­ successful lover. "No, indeed," she re­ plied, "only in your farewell." He-- O, my darling, you will be mine, will you? When may I talk to your mother --to-morrow? She--Yes--that is--no, no! To-morrow is washday. "How DOES it happen that you are called general, when you were only a * lieutenant in the army?" "I received a brevet." "But I understand vou spent most of your time in the hos­ pital. " "Yes, that's where I got the title of general." "Brigadier General?" "No; General Debility."--Areola Rec­ ord. A UNTO her grandmother a sweet little girl with a glorious aureole of golden hair said a lew days sinee, as she came to rest in grandma's lap after a romp­ ing game of hide-and-go-seek: "I wis* I was an angel, grandma." "Do you, my little darling; why?" "If I had wings I could beat the rest of the girla home to base."--Pittsburgh Dispatch. WHEN the American Board met in Boston in 1860, an excellent divine who presided at one of the "overflow" meet­ ings, and who had a high opinion of the value of quotations, presented a return missionary in the following uncon­ sciously happy manner: I now have the pleasure to introduce to you R§¥# * Mr. Blank, from that land 'Where every prospect ploaaes, And only man is vile.'" LITTLF. NEDDIE had acquired the ao- eomplishment of fibbing. After being caught in a big one his parents told him how wrong it was and said that even if they didn't know when he told fibs God did. A few days after they suspected him of doing something which he declared np and down that he did not do. His mother said to him: Now, Neddie^ I want you to tell me the truth about this; did you do it or not?" Neddie, whose innocence was well es­ tablished in his own mind, replied: "No, mamma, honest, I didn't: yon can God or anybody!"--Boston Globe. * Shocked at Last. MML A.--I've just seen Mrs. Sklpv pers. ^ • Mrs. B.--The wife of Skippers, the cashier, who ran off to Canada? I mean Skippers who lived on Avenue and was one of the elite. "Yes, the same." "How is the lady feeling this ing?" "She is completely prostrated." "Why, I saw her riding in Central Park yesterday afternoon, and she seemed to be in the best of health and spirits.* "Yes, I know; it was something that appeared in one of the morning papers." "About the fifteen indictments against Mr. Skippers?" "Worse than that" "I suppose they have revived that old story of his having served a term ia the Illinois Penitentiary." "Worse than that" 4 "Worse than that! I expect th$f have caught on to his having run away from his first family. No wonder poor Mra Skippere is prostrated." "She knew all about that long ago." Well, in the name of Heaven, what eliarge has the papers made against llij& to shoek his wife so terribly ?" Vi "It says that Skippers is going to tablish a liquor store in Montreal. JL. " liquor store! Just think of it! And Mrs. Skippers is related to the Knicker­ bockers and the Vanderhovens and Skimmerhorns. No wonder she is prqgj^ trated."--Texas Siftingst Respected His Tempcr. Mr. Levi employs two clerks in lift 1 retail grocery. One is a young man 6f the same race of his employer, the other is a large-limbed, black-bearded Yankee by the name of Hicks. Mr. Levi is a very excitable little man and whenever young Moses gets in late swears at him fearfully. The other day, after a prolonged "cursing out," Moses meekly remon­ strated : ' "Mr. Levi, it is all right; you can enss me w'enefer you want to, but I notish dat Mr. HicKs gets in late and you don' say nothing to him." "But, mein Gott, man!" exclaimed Mr. Levi, "you don't know what kind of a temper dat man Hicks has got!"-i~ Detroit Free Press. " *' * •' * ,'1 : :i ikI M W-J , • :1 J •H Yes, It Has; Scarify the Sinner. ' Twenty odd years ago a kind-hearted old Philadelphia merchant caught the office boy pilfering. He talked to him, prayed with him, gave him another' chance, and in time the boy was pro­ moted step by step until he became the most trusted employe. A few daya ago it was discovered that the young man had been appropriating $20 a day for twenty years. 1 Some true stories don't seem to have any moral. Thia one hasn't--Chicago Times. MORE than forty years ago, Bjornsl' jerna, a literary count of Sweden, smf- ' gested that, as both poles must have reached a suitable degree of oooling at the same time, the earth might have been peopled from the north pole with its white races, and from the south pole with its colored raoe& , 1 tyy i»«. * • r.J\Z:ki*km JIL i.Wvj,. .JJsL .. A. _. - ̂ '1.jj