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    THE DAILY HERALD, PLATTSMOUTTL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 18S7.
PRAIRIE R0SE3.
A fcr!sr of ron, pink an I nwit,
Tlmt lunl. in loam their f lender tort.
That xeiiil a lireiith tlio Hprlni; to n-vt
Acrosit n :ieat exjuiuwe;
Tlwv lenn ft -lii Un togvilKT lif-ro,
Tliey Krnile at lov, with t:wm fair
Wlmt ke tin; HiiiiHliine Kli'itiu nenr?
Young love, iM-relianee.
A ImnIc grown lliu with (iiitiinui'H linzo,
'I'i'iiilril:! thut I'lin in loving Inne,
Through lre:ir, or cold, or Homly il.iyn;
Aeri'ss llm jjri'iit i?xi:uiho
Cilllli'tt on I III' (ieree :M'.lelnlMT mm,
Wlii-li rosy llusli and rf lirni-'ri (lulu:;
The rnyM I lie faded tlowera Hlmn
Witlii.uL n k'hicu.
fill, homely loves that ol.uip her round.
May you enough for her In- found -(I.Ike
Hister roses on one mound
Amid a jreut ex muse) -May
no jjity wooer iisk n Hiuih -Too
lightsome wilit with winsome wile!
lint k'uiniliL; love to hold uwhiii.
Then low, p-n'tiumi.
1'Ui SiiephenJ in ISostmi Trniiwrijit.
Till- SIIOKS OF I5IMLM).
Listen to tliis htnry thsit llio grand
iKllir .f t .Vrmsmy tell to llx ir ctsuhI-
liillreli; ornisiii V, : I m t 1 1 i Ti 1 1 cmiislry
f Icijfmls atxl ( rexeries, sli-rc tin
moonlight, il:iyin on lln- mi.-t of ol.l
Kliilir, cn-sitcs Si IIioiissiihI fsint.ist ii- i:-:-iins.
A Mr wouism livi-il silono tit tin- f:ir
cml of tint vill;i'ce in :i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 il- liltlc
lions-; tin- ilwt-lliii;; v:ts misi-r.ililr cnoiiuli
Jili'l oiil;liii' J only limsl iM-ccsswiry
fin nitnre. An ol I lil willi wrcsit lutl
columns, from wliirli linn ciiiisiins of
yi liowiil Kcr;i,1 it Isiirsulirij trough to put
tin; l.n ;ul in, :i wsilmit i lu st sliming w illi
cli-snimr.-, !nt vliosi iiiinilx i Ii hs worm
lioles, lillt-il li willi wsix, slinwiil I' Hi;;
fcrvi--; si stiitiV'l sinn h.iir, fsnloil siml
worn ly tlx sli.ikiti Ih-skI of 1 1 t
fTsiiiilriiii, si wliii-l jM.lislieil smooth ly
Jiiih Ii nsin; t hsit v:is sill.
Wi- wen' froiti'j lo forget si chiM's
rrnllf. 'iil now, O! sosolily lirn-il, :irnl
f. ililtil iluwii willi si pretty tliw.Ttil
i-overliil workiil liy si loving ikiiIIo - thsit.
of SI 1 1 lot I it .T llcCorsitin tlie liisincvr of
Iht lit Ho .h-sus.
All fl 1 1 lielifs of the Kr lioiisi- wcri'
tfiitrnil fhoro. TIi" fliil-l of :i Iuiijmi-nuish-r
or of sin Anlii- councilor woiiM
not liavc Im-ii inmv t-n. Icily i;nllil.
Holy irli"?ility! Sweit folly of flm
mollifr, wlio ili-iiii-.s Iiitm-II' t vt-rj I liinj to
n:ilc- si lillli' luxury, in !; midst of lift
want, for Iht ili sir nuisliii.
This crsulli; K;IV' :l l'lid:iy siir t tliu
.iu-lnl stiii I Mii.-ill ;md dirty lml",ii";, si.ml
Ii.it tins ever fotup.issii n:ile lo tlio-u wln
jiro iinfortunatf, I'liilileiii-d1 its liari'iicss
willi tufts of liouc li-rk siiid with lvt:1y
iiiiKts. ' Whili- wftniii.-; to lx; Im! para-Fiti-rt
I Ih-ho j;hiI. pit il til- 'l.iuts purjioscly
jrrow in tin.' hol. s in tin roof, lillin-j; them
tup and trsmsformin."-tiu'in into n-spli-n-cU'iit
liaiiKir.j; Kiskfts wliicli silso s-rv d
to ktvp tlif rain from falling on tlio
crsdlo; fven lli pigt-ons ll;itl-n'd thom
f'lvos si.siinst the windows and coed
until the t hild fell nslii-ji.
A tiny liid, whom little ITanz had ftxl
-tvitli liread t runil-s in tlio w inter when
tlU! hiio-.v whitened the ground, now, in
the PrinK, 1't fall a Ristiu from his l-ejik
atthuootof the wall, and from it hail
f-prung n lxnutiful hiier weed vine
whirh. f.-olenin.L-; its If to the stones with
its Kreeii claws, lial entereil the room
through si hroken pane, ami crow ned the
child's cnidle with it garlands, so that
in the niornhiic the l-luo eyes of little
'Han, and the Mm? bc-lla of the vine
awoke at the ssime time and looketl in
telligently at each other.
The dwelling was. then, poor, hut not
gloomy. The mother of llan., whose
liusliand liad died far aw ay in the wars,
lived aa best she could upon the few
vegetables that her garden yielded, and
ujion what little she made from spinning;
-very little indeed, but llanz w suited fot
nothing, that was enough.
Certainly she was a pious and U lieving
Atonian. this mother of Hsinz. Hhe said
lier prayers, worked and was virtuous;
but she committed one sin; she took too
much pride in her son. It happens some
times that mothers, seeing their U-auti-ful,
rosy babies with their tiny, dimpled
1 Kinds, and their white fckin ar.d their
pretty pink nsiils; imagine that they are
theirs forever; but Cod gives nothing. In,
lends only; and lik a forgotten creditor
lio comes sometimes suddenly to claim
liis due.
Hecause this fresh lnul had lioen
jrafteil front lier stem, the mother of
llanz thought she lisid causi'd it to le
iKirn; and (Jh1 who from the depth of
liis blue vaulted par:niise that is studdetl
willi golden stars oIk-ci vcs all that h:ip
liens on earth, slinl liesirs fr.ni the end of
infinity the noise" that a blade of grass
makes in growing saw not this with
-pleasure.
He saw, too, that Hanz was greedy
and that his mother wsis too indulgent
with him in this evil habit: often this
naughty child would cry when, after
eating grapes and apples, he would have
to finish his bread, that so many poor
people are in need of, and bis mother
would let him throw away the piece lie
had bitten into, or would finish it herself.
Now it happened that llanz fell ill:
fever burned him, his throat was choked,
and his breath came heavily with a rat
tling sound; he his the croup, a terrible
discsi.se t hat hsis made the eyes of many
mothers and of many fathers red with
weeping.
The ioor woman at this sight felt a
liorrible pain at her heart.
Without doubt you have seen in snmo
church the image of Our I,ady clothed in
mourning and -standing lt-neat h the cross,
with her breast torn open showing the
bleedino; heart in which are plunged seven
Silver blades three on one side and four
on the other. The meaning of this isthat
there is no more fright fill agony than that
of a mother who sees her child die; and
this sdthough the Holy Virgin lt-lieved in
the divinity of Jesus and knew that her
fVn w ould rise agsxin.
Now the mother of ITanz had no such
hope. During the last days of his illness,
while she watched him, the mother me
chanically continued spinning, and the
1mm of her wheel mingled with the
child's laliored breathing.
If there are those rich who think it
ctrango thsit a mother should spin beside
the dying bed of her child, it is that they
tlo not know what 'torture poverty holds
in Jta m-nqn for t.h soul. Alms! it doesn't
alone destroy the body, it breaks tlie
beart also. , '
l Wliat she was spinning thus was the
thread for tho shroud of her little ITanz.
She did uot wish to wrap hid precious ;
liody in linen that h.ul lcen used, and she.
had no money; and it was for this
reason lh.it site made her w hee l rumble
with such funcrcsd activity; but she did
not moisten the thread with her lij, an
wsls her custom; enough teara fell from
her eyes to wet it.
At the cUjse of tho sixth day Hanz
tli-d. Whwther it was frotu chance, or
whether from sympathy, tho wreath of
the brier wo.l vine that caressed bin
cradle laagui.shcd, faded, dried and let
fall its lsu-l cri.sjx-d blossom n his luil.
When the mother wsts convinceij that
breath had flown forever from tho lis
where dentil violuts hstd replaced tho
riKii-s of life, she covered the lx-lovid
dead, took her packsige of thread under
her arm, and di rifted her steps to the
w istver's.
"Weaver," wiid she. hi-ro is some
very even thread, very line and without
knots. The spider ilues not spin thinner
Ix tween the rafters of the ceiling. lied
3ur slmlth' come ami go; with this
thread must ou nisike for ine a ysird of
linen, sis soft sis the linen from l"risc and
from Holland."
The weaver look the skein, sidjuslcd
the warp, siml the busy shuttl, draw ing
the thread alter it, Ix gaii lo lly bsick and
forth.
The Ii.iUIh I tightened the woof sind
the I i 1 1 ii grew on the frame without un
cventuss, without break, sis line sis the
chemise of sin sirchdiu hess. tr the linen
with v.!ii Ii :i pin .-,1 dries the -liali e sit.
the allar.
When the thread was sill used the
weaver gave Kick t he linen to the jioor
n loll hi- and said to her, for lie had un-!'!.-IihnI
s.II from the unhappy lesiture's
lHk of lixed despair:
The infant sen of (he emperor, who
died laM. oar, iu his little elxmy fillin
with itssilviv nails, wsis nol wrap-d iu
linen that was softer or finer.'1
Having fwlded (be linen the kmt
mother piitfxl from her wasted linger si
thin ring of goi1, ijuu'le wotu.
(;.m1 wc-sivit, " tJ'ie said, "lake this
rine, - my tusiiriage ring--the only g.ld 1
h.iVi" Over jH'SScsUed."'
The worthy v.eaviT did not wish to
tsike it, but she said to him:
"I have no nc-d of :t ring there wh?n
1 am j.oing. for, I feel il, my little boy's
iinns drag me underground."
Then she went to the carpenter's.
"Master, iu kindness take some od,
that will not rot ami that the w
cannot, destroy; cut from it live 1 .rg
j iaiiks and two that are smaller and
I,,., I-.. v-t'. ife ei f eoPii-i iS this i.ieas
eie. The
pi. me.
M'lllv
carpenter t"k his saw ami h'u
ariangetl the planks, shuck an
is he could with his mallet, so sis
not to force the iron points into the poor
woman's heart before they- entered the
wood.
When the work was completed one
would have thought it, so csrefully and
well made it was, a lox to put jewel
and lace in.
( 'si q H-nter, who have made such a
lieautiful colfin for my little Han?., I give
you my house at the end of tho village
and the little garden w hich is behind and
the well with its vine. You will not
have to wsiit long."
With the sJuoud and the coffin, which
she held under her arm, it was so small,
i he went her way through the village
streets, and the children, who do not
know what death is, cried out:
"See what a ljeautif! Uix of toys from
Nuremlf rg llanz's mother carries to him;
without doubt it is u city with its houses
in painted aJiJ varnished wood, its steeple
Kurrounded with lend, iti battlements and
If! fry and tbe trees, for the promenades,
all frizzed awd grcun: or else it is a pretty
liildle, carved, with si bow like st horse's
mane. Oh! fT we orJy Lad such a box!"
And the mothers, growing pale, kissed
them and made them still. "Impudent
ones that you sire, do not sny so; do not
envy her l-.c-r jewel box, the violin case
which one carries under the arm w eeping.
You will have it soon enough, poor chil
dren!" When the mother of Hanz
reached home the took the tiny and still
lovely 1"h1v of her sou and began to dress
hitu for the last time, a toilet w hich must
be a Aery caruful one. sis it will last
through eternity. She dressed him in his
Sunday clothing, in Lis silken dress and
his jf lisse, trimmed with fur, so that he
would not be cold in the damp place
w here he w as going. She placed beside
him his doll w ith the enameled eyes that
In hsul loved so much that it h;id sdwaya
slept Ijcsido him in his cradle.
llrwv Hie lingered over the task! How
many thousand times she gave him his
Isist kisr,! At the moment of smoothing
down the shroud, t-he jf rccived that pho
hail forgotten to put on t lie desid child
liis pretty little rod shoes.
, lhe sought for Ihem in tlio room, for
it hurt her to eroliave those feet that, be
fore so moist twid so rosy, were now icy
and pale; but during her absence the
rsits, having found the shoes under the
bed, for want of If Her food, had nibbled
and gnawed them, sind had lorn the kid.
It was a groat grief for the oor mother
that, her llanz was forced to go irsto the
oilier world with bare ft ct; for When the
heart is one great wound it is sufficient to
touch it to make it Uecd. She wept lx
fore those slufd; from (hose dry, in
flamed eyes a tear could still gush forth.
I low could she get some shoes for Hanz,
sin? had given away hrr ring and her
house' Such was the thought that tor -montcd
her. l.y dint of dwelling on it,
Ihcre csitue t her stn idin.
In the hut tlxrc remained r-tiil an en
tire loaf of bread, for the unhappy one,
nourished by her grief, had eaten noth
ing. - She broke this lonf, rememltering that
formerly. o':t of the soft part, the had
made pig fiis. ducks, liens, taUits, lioats
ami other childish things to amuse Hanz
with.
Placing tke soft bread in the hollow of
her hand and kneading it with her
thumb, smd moistening it with her tears,
she made a pair of hhoes with w hich she
shod the cold and blue feet of the dead
child, and. her heart comforted, fhe
smoothed down the shroud nnd closed
the cotlln. "While she was kneading the
dough a lieggar had come to her thresh
old, timid, askiDg for bread: but with
her hand she had motioned to luui to It
gone.
The grave digger came to take the box,
and buried it in a corner of the cemetery
under a clump of white rose Lushes; the
air was sweet, it did not rain, and the
earth was not wt; this was a source of
consolation to tho mother, who thought
tliat her little Hanz would not bo too un
easy his first night in the tomb.
Itsiek in her solitary house, she placed
the child's cradle next to her ltd, lay
down and fell asleep. Exhausted nature
had sueeuinlfd.
Sli-eping, she had a dream, or at least
she thought it was a dream. llanz ap
Ifsircd to her, dressed, as in his coffin, in
hi Sunday clothing, his it-lisse trimmi-d
with swansdown, holding in his anus the
doll with the enameled eyes, and wear
ing on his ft ft the shoes made of bread.
Ho seemed sjul. Around his head wsis
not that aureole with which death should
rightly crown little innocents; for when
a Iwiby is put in the earth there comes out
an angel. The roses of paradise did not
bloom on bis pale cheeks that death hsul
painted so white; fears fell from his
blonde hushes, ami big sighs rent his little
breast. The vision disapjfared and the
mother siwoke, cold smd shivering, over
joyed to have seen her son again, dis
Inrscd bee: u ise he was so sad; but she
rcsissiired herself, saying: "l'oor llanz!
even in Paradise be cat unit forget ine."
The following nihl the apparition
came once more. llanz wsis still 'more
s:;il. still more pale. His mother,
stretching out her sinus to him, said:
"1 e:ir child, console thyself, Sllld do not
become weary in heaven, I sun going
there to join thee." The third night
1 Ian, c suite again: he groaned smd cried
uiorelhanon the two prifling nights,
ai'd he dissipjH-ared clasping his little
hands as if in supplication; he did not
carry liis doll, hut he wore, as always,
the tiny shoes made of bread.
The anxious mother went to consult a
venerable priest, who said to her: "I
will watch with you to-night smd I will
iiestion the little ghost. He will siu
swer me; I know the words that one
must use to innocent an well its to wicked
spirits."
I Ism. p k -si red sit the usual hour and
the priest challenged him, using the con
secrated words, (o tell him what it wsis
thsit tormented him in the other world.
"It; is the shoes of hresu! that cause my
torment smd prevent nie from siscending
t he disMiiond stair-! ol pstrsidise; they ore
heavier to my feet thsni si postilion's
ImhiP;, ami I cannot get Ifyond tho first,
t wo or three slops, sind that gives me so
much grief, for I see up (here si cloud
of lieautiful cherubs wjh rosy wings
w hocsdl to me to come and play, sind
who show me their silver toys ami their
'? l:-n toys."
Having ssu'd these words, he vanished.
The holy f:it her, to w hom tho mother of
Ii. had confessed, now ssiid to her:
You have committed a grievous
fault. You hsive profsimd the 'ilsiily
bread,' the bresul that is sacred, tho bread
of tht: good God; the bresul that Jesus
Christ, at his last, supper, chose to repre
sent hh ImhIj-, smd sif ter having refused si
piece of it to the lfggar who esinie to
your doorsill you made shoes out of it for
your Hanz. You must open his coffin,
esike olt the shfs mside of bread from
this chiM's feet and burn them in fire,
which purifies all."
Accompanied by the gravo digger and
by tho mother, the priest went to the
cemetery. With four blows of the spade
the coliin wsis uncovered. They opened
it. Hsinz was lying within just as his
mother hsid pkiced him, but his fsice liore
an expression of grief. The holy priest
tenderly took olT tho shoes made of bresul
from the fft of the dead baby and him
self burned them in the flsime of a wax
tajier while he recited a prayer.
Whs?n the night came on'llanz ap
peared If fore his mother for the last time,
but j.iyous, rtisy, contented, with two
little cherubs with whom ho had already
mail friends; ho woro a wreath of dia
mords and his wings were made of light.
".h, my moihorl what happiness,
whsit felicity, and how lieautiful. They
are tho gardens of paradise I There we
play forever, and the good God never
scolds us."
Tho next day the mother saw her lxy
again, but in heaven, for she died before
evening, with her head bent over the
empty cradle. Translated by Anno C.
Mili'ord Barton from the French of The
ophile Gautier for Home Journal.
A Young Ventriloquist.
A little Boston lxy who was taken to
the entertainment of a ventriloquist some
t ime ago, and who was a close observer
of the performer's modus operandi, ac
companied his parents last week to his
father's native town, and among the
places visited during their rural sojourn
was tin; country cemetery, where sleep
the progenitors of his paternal jiarent.
The latter pointed out lo tho child a cer
tain mound, s;iyu:g: "There, dear, is the
yrave of your grandfather." The little
fellow gazed curiously at tho placo of
i-iCpullnro for a moment, and then, seized
yy a sudden idea, stooped down, and rap
ping on the tombstone, said: "Grandpa,
ore you down there?" following .it up
with a self supplied "Yes" in as deep and
guttural a tone as his little throat could
make vocal. "Ut-s you want to come
upV" he resumed in his natural pitch of
voice, and tigain dropping to the lower
tone answered his own query with a bass
and hollow "No." The parents, greatly
shocked, cut short further venlriloquial
efforts on the part of the too precocious
child. Boston Budget.
Facts Abont London.
Alout twenty-eight miles of new Ftreets
sire laid out each year; about 9,000 houtes
are erected yearly; about 500,000 houses
are silready erected; nlut 10,000 strang
ers enter the city each day; fdfut 123
persons are added daily to the popula
tion; altiut 120,000 foreigners live in the
city; about 129,000 pauif rs and beggars
infest the city; altuit 10,000 oliee keep i
order; alwut 2,000 clergymen hold forth j
even Sunday; siljout 3,000 horses die j
every week; and, it is said, alfmt 700,000
cats enliven the moonlight nights. Pub
lic Opinion.
A CJoocI Old Age.
Long lived heredity is not simply a
physical tendency to live. It is also a
tendency to the habits of life, conduct
and thought that preserve constitutional
vigor, and hold in check or eradicate
whatever might hamper nature's recuper
ative power.
This suggests tho practical lesson we
would enforce. By the voluntary culti
vation of good habits those who have
reached, say the age of 30, in sound
health, may hepe to live to a good and
happy old age. Youth's Companion.
THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM.
I IU IlWtory In Ilrlef A Popular Tuney.
A Welcome Cilfttlil Kvent.
I "Where can the Star of Bethlehem Lo
found?" is tho oft rotated question that
j coiues from insiny qu;irter.i. Tin fact is,
, no such star is visible in any irt of tho
i heavens. An observer with a vivid itn
! agination fancied he had discovered this
; long looked for star, and announced its
j retuni in some journal of the d:iy. Tho
j jtiragraph was wide ly copied throughout
j the country. Tho idesi plcsiscd the Mpu
j lar fancy, was received with almost uii
' questioning faith, and the sky wasesigerly
scanned for si glimjise of the stsir that
onco shone over the humble dwelling that
enshrined the Kcdifiner of mankind.
Even the jiec rless Venus wsis impressed
into service, and was firmly Iflieved to
lo the sacred stsir once more shining
iqioii the earth sifter wandering for ages
in tht: star depth:).
The history of the so called Star of
liethlehcm is brielly this: Tyt ho P.rsihe,
a Banish sistronomer, discovered, in the
year 157'i, un apparently new stsir near
Cstpli in CsLssiojfa. When lirst Mien, in
Noiemlfr, it hstd attained the fust nisig
nilude. It increased rsipidly in briUiaiicy,
until it rivaled Venus, and was visible sit
noonday. It began to diminish in bright
ness in IhfemUr, and conliuded to fade
awsiy until the following Alay, when it
ditsapjfared from view.
Forty yesirs later, when the telePcof
was invented, si f.msdl telescopic stsit was
found close to the sot where the won
derful htsir was wen. It is still there,
siml is probably the same. It is now
classed among vsirisible stars, and is,
therefore, liable to blaze forth at any
time in the ssune extraordinary nuinner.
After classifying the s tar sis a v irisil le,
the next thing to Ix; done was to find osit
its fiiod of variability. Astronomical
records were sesirt hed. sind it wsis ascer
tained that aliout the years 12l".:j and triC
bright slsirs suddenly apjfared near tho
ssune qusirter of the in avens. It wsis,
therefore, (,-lassilied as si varisible, with si
period of ulttiit oO'.t years. Counting
bsick three periods from '.)(;,- t he exsict
period beinj; nneertsiin. the stsir may
hsive sippeared near the lime of theCSiris
liau era. Some imaginsitixo observer,
for this re.ison, christened it the Star of
Bethlehem, smd with scarce the sh:dov
of si foiindsitiou the nsiine hsis iidliered to
it ever since. It is sdso known us the
PiL't iiti Stsir. sind siniong astronomers :i:i
5lu- star of 1572.
If the star be a vstriable, with a period
approximsil iug to '.',('.) years, it it lion
due smd liable to bun 1 forth into sudden
brilli.incy :tt a?iy time. No c It e ent
would Ix- moil- weleoi'ie to st:trono)ners.
The scieiil ifie world would U- wild with
O'sciteiuent over the sitbstsint i.-it ion of stn
ingenious theory smd the continuation of
its hofs. Its first sippesusinee, ilse.vsat
pos.it ion in tho hesivens. its ch.ingi-ss from
day to day, would be telegraphed all over
the country and immitely described iu
the journals of the day. The advent of
a comet, spanning the sky from tho
zenith to the horizon, would If of no ac
count in comparison with tho blazing
star! Meantime the telescopic ttar near
Caph in Cassiopea shows no signs of smy
coming disturbance, and ol,c rvrrs must
wait j nit iently for developments, remem
lf ring that the outburst will be sudden,
if it come.
It is generally considered that the ex
traordinary chsmges of light in stars, liko
that of 1572, are caused by sudden out
bursts of glowing hydrogen gsis, which by
its own light and by heating up the wholo
surface of the btar causes the imnienso
increase in brilliancy. The sjiots, facuko
and rosy protulfranccs on the sun givo
some idea, on a small scale, of what may
be going on in other suns on a much
larger scale. -Fortunsitely, tho new or
temporary stars observed by terrestrial
astronomers numlf r only rdiout twenty
four, sm infinitesimal number when com
pared with the boundless millions of stsirs
that shine with nearly unclumging bright
ness. The probability is, therefore, sniali
that our tun will be added to the list of
blazing stars. He will probably shine for
millions of years to tome, as he has shone
for millions of years in tho past, and if
observed from other suns and systems
will lie classed as a variable, with a period
of aliout eleven years, corresjionding to
the cycle of sun spots. Scientific Amer
ican. A rtiff ricfclo Factory.
Fredericksburg, Vn., has a big pickle
factory that is supplied with cucumlt-rs
from the lands adjoining the city. This
season the supply has reached 20,000,000
cucuuiliers, those engaged in their pro
duet ion furnishing from 200,000 to
1,000,000 each. An acre will produce
100,000, and they fell in Fredericksburg
at eighty cents pfr 1,0')0. The objtf t is
to get them an inch or sin inch and a
half long, and this requires active picking
before they increase this t.izo. A boy
will pick 3,000 in a daj Picking them
thus early increases the productiveness n
the vine, smd, while the season lastj.
others are appealing in place of those
taken from the vines. New York Sun.
Tlie Con rt eons Pernliiiin.
The Persians are a very punctilious
race; and it is the sensible custom of the
country, on making a call, to announce
beforehand that you are coming. A
thousand and one little jioints of punctilio
have to be observed. A certain number
of cups of tea are de rigueur, three pijfs
at lesist hsive to If smoked, a few whiffs
from each; the rank and precedence of
every guest i:? rigorously ohsorved, and
each visitor intrigues for, and generally
receives, a little more than her due. To
omit to return a visit is an unpardonable
offense. The particukir place in the apart
ment of each guest is regulated to a nicety,
and many and bitter are the feuds ou this
subject. St. James' Gazette.
Ignored ty ISerman 1'apers.
In four pages of ews from all parts of
the world in The O.iognc Gazette there is
a single line from America, telling of the
emperor of Brazil's departure for Eurojie.
The case cited is not the exception, but
the rule, not only with The Gazette, but
with all German papers which reflect the
government's policy. The United States
are referred to as seldom and as briefly
as possible, and this in spite of the fact
that there is scarcely a family in Ger
many which has not a relative, a friend,
or an acquaintance here. If the German
chancellor could arrange a map of the
world to his liking, there would not be a
republic left on it. St. Louis Republican.
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