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(CRANBERRIES FROM BOG I f TO DELICIOUS JELL Y 1 I How the Annual Crop of a Milion Bushels is Crown i a*» and Picked. . C* One of the most important prelim inaries to the Thanksgiving dinner is the fall picking of the crop of cran berries, which reaches' now a good round million bushels of blushing rod fruit. And what an ocean of sauce and mountain of jelly such a quantity of berries can make, but it is easily dis posed of by the American people,, for probably 400,000 bushels are used for the Thanksgiving festival alone. The genesis of the cranberry is not as well .known as that of other fea tures of the Thanksgiving dinner. Everybody knows all about the turkey. Nor is there any mystery about the cel fry, the mincemeat that goes into the pies or any of the side vegetables that add so much eclat. Eat the cranberry comes a distance lo the vast majority of the consumers. It is'seldom used on the farm. Cran berry culture is not usually carried on In a small way by a farmer in con nection with other produce cultivation. It is a separate business that re quires plenty of land, and what is even more important, water. It was at Cape Cod that the cran berry was first cultivated in the United States, and soon came the dis covery that in flavor the cultivated crazt! rry was far superior to its wild brother. From this point the cranberry has spread all over the United States, b it it is a selfish berry, and demands for its own exclusive use all the land devoted to its culture. Thus it is not possible to get a crop of cranberries one year and a crop of something else | gradually being abandoned in the I larger bogs in -favor of the new “rock er scoops.” The scoop looks like a rake, with a box attached, and is made of hick I ory. It has long teeth, and the op erator pushes it along through the vines, having it carefully adjusted so that it does not tear the vines or miss any of the berries. As the scoop picks the berries from the stems it empties them into a box, and the method is so quick that one man can pick 25 times as many berries in a day as was pos sible under the old hand system. Machinery also helps when the time comes to take the berries indoors, re move the leafy waste, and grade them according to size and quality. There are to each bog several con venient buildings,- so placed as to re duce to a minimum the need of carry ing the crop from place to place. The genius that does the work is a mill or grader, a two-story machine run ;by hand and the force of gravi tation. Jne berries are received by the' top per as they come from the bog. The stems are mostly caught y twe -crcon,' and the finer rubbish is blown o-‘ by a revolving fan. Xow the berries fall on a long table having i succession of slots and grooves under the strong , pieces. The grooves are opened all j their length at the uottom, the space ! between their sides widening by de . grees, making four changes. The ber ries dropped on the table roll prompt | ly into the longitudinal grooves. The ' pea-shaped ones are disposed of first, Women Pickeri at Work in a Cranberry Boij. the next out of the same piece of land. Sand and peaty ground form the ideal soil for the cranberry, and in stead of fertilizing, the grower is obliged lo give the vines or bushes lib eral coatings of sand. It takes money and patience to’pre pare a bog, and the man who puts his capital in the venture deserves a fair • return for his product. It costs not less than $300, and as high as $500 an acre, to get the bog ready. Then five'years must elapse before there is any crop sufficient to give a return. But after this it is all profit, for the shrubs live and bear endlessly, .get ting better all the time. Nothing could be simpler than planting cranberry bushes. A small handful of twigs is twisted together, and thrust deeply into the sand. They need no tending, but take root at once, and w'itliin a year send out run ners. The planting is done in rows eight or ten inches apart. Gradually the spaces between the rows fill up, and soon the whole bog is one field of growing cranberries. Flooding the bog answers the dual purpose of giving the cranberry the moisture which is an essential part of its life, and protecting it from frosts of early autumn. There are two ways of picking the berries. One is the old-fashioned, the other the new. In the primitive method all that is needed is a picker with nimble fingers. He or she sits or kneels in the moist sand, plunges both hands, with fingers slightly spread, till the hands become a sort of rake, into the green vines, and with a quick movement strips the berries from the vine, and tosses them into a pan. When the pan is filled it is emptied into a larger measure containing a third of a bushel. The size is uniform, and the picker is paid by the pail. The old-time method of picking is W--»•-W --It" ■ " ""If HOW WARRIORS MET DEATH * Commonplace Ends of Some Famous Soldiers. Covtes, the conqueror of Mexico, af ter half a lifetime of desperate fight ing, hated by those he had subjugated and tortured, died in Spain of typhoid fever, neglected and despised by those wh un be had benefited. William the Silent survived numer oiiJt conflicts and campaigns, only to be assassinated after he was victor ious; and nr 'ing was to be gained by his enem.es from his death. Washing.on survived the perils of the wilderness, the dangers of Indian warfare, all the bullets and balls of a score of revolutionary battles, and the hardships of a seven years’ campaign, to be bled to death by his doctors. Napoleon, apparently bullet proof and relieved by his followers to bear a charmed life, died almost alone of a cancer. Lord Clive, the English conqueror of India, twice escaped self murder la his youth by his pistol’s missing fire, •VNDICATF MO. 1—71*2. which led him to say that he was destined to something great. Though he was a bold, active warrior, exposed to death in scores of desperate battles and by several plots, he fell a victim after his return to England to the opium habit, aid committed suicide. Grant, who time and again stood un touched amid a hail of bullets, finally died of cancer. A Connecticut soldier, during the civil war, took part in over a hundred battles, without a scratch, and died at the close from blood poisoning caused by the slight cut of a piece of glass.— Sunday Magazine. Circumstances Alter Cases. She (a bride of six weeks)—Tom, dear, do you love me as much as you did before we were married? He—Of course I do, darling. She—But you don’t seem to yearn for my society like you did then. He—Oh, that’s different. A single man can afford to yearn on a salary of $9 a week, but after he acquires a wife he has to cut out the yearning and do a little hustling. ■;C.: ■ }t . iLy-;'. .i y. ■,'. V,. and land in the first bin. These are only fit for the dye pot or the can ning factory. The grooves widen and grad ually the "seconds," “standards” and "fan cies" are disposed of, the latter class being, of course, the big, red, lus cious berries that command the high est prices. Nor is the test confined to size. Berries of a given size all roll down the chute together, but at the bottom their paths separate. The sound ones, with a strong rebound, jump over the bar into the bin, but the soft, wormy ones have no such resillience. and fall short, rolling ignominiously into the waste box beneath. Should one by ac cident manage to make the spring, a lynx-eyed girl stands ready to banish \ it into outer darkness. This process j of elimination, picks out the right I size and quality or the market. ^ ith careful weeding and watering, ‘ an acre will yield more than 100 bar- ! rels of cranberries, and it has been i calculated that in eight years an acie ! ought to pay back in full the entire cost, leaving all that follows as clear profit. Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa are cranberry states, but the I west is not able to produce all the i cranberries it needs. The western upt put and a large percentage of the east ern growth are required to dispense the proper Thanksgiving cheer. One city alone, New York, uses 300, 000 bushels of cranberries every year. For these the producer averages a minimum price cf five dollars per bar rel. The consumer pays from five to ten cents a quart. Somewhere be tween the field and the Thanksgiving dinner table some one has made a big profit, and when it is remembered how long the producer had to wait for his cash, all is forgiven. The flavor that the red berry addg to the turkey is in itself excuse for anything. Ignace Jan Paderewski. Recent photograph of the famous pianist. BUSINESSMEN AT YALE. | FACULTY AND STL!DENTS TAKE *TO COMMERCIALISM. —* University in Feeding, Lodging, Light ing and Department Store Enter prises—Activity of Students Varied and Profitable. New Haven, Conn.—The Yale stu dents are resorting to many enter prises to supply at least additional money for college expenses. The Yale dining hall, outside of the j dormitories themselves, was one of j the first business enterprises started j as a money making concern for the ! college. It now serves f.000 persons ; at every meal and has a wailing list j of 200. The Yale cooperative store sells everything from a pin to a pony. The | college runs its own heating and j lighting plant to the exclusion of out side corporations, and the dormitories house 3,000 men. Recently an order went forth from the college officials prohibiting the selling of Lght fixtures and student lamps on university property except at a store recently fitted for the pur pose on the campus. The province of the popular dog wagon, or all night lunch, has recent ly been invaded by the opening of two lunch rooms for students, one | on the academic campus and one at the Sheffield Scientific school. The enterprises conducted by the university through its faculty and corporation, such as the dining hall, dormitories, lighting and heating plants, lunch rooms and cooperative store, are purely business proposi tions of little interest in themselves save as they represent the entrance of the modern commercial spirit into educational institutions and because ' the merchants protest against what they consider the usurpation of their field of trade. The entrance of the undergraduates into college commercialism is inter esting because of the unusual nature of the occupations chosen and the way in which these enterprises sup I plement those chosen by the college authorities, the whole forming a com mercial Yale which supplies the needs o! educational Yale. Students conduct a suit Dressing es tablishaieni, run a laundry, tutor oth er undergraduates and an agents rep resent mercantile houses, selling ar ticles of every description. A daily newspapei and monthly magazines, scientific, medical, legal, literary and humorous, all conducted ■ by students are well patronized and pay their backers handsomely. When the train rolled into the union ! station this fall bringing Yale men • back to New Haven the returning students were accosted on the plat- ; form by two students who solicited the privilege of carrying the baggage ; of their Yale acquaintance's to the j campus. The pair had hired two ex press wagons at three dollars a day i and secured nine-tenths oi the stu dent trade, much to the chagrin of the i regular expressmen. Teams and licenses for the week cost $45, while the two took in more than $1,000. When this was divided both had enough to carry them through the college year. Another enterprise giving every promise of success is the Yale stu dent laundry, started this fall. Two students lake orders for laundry work, selling a ticket for a specified amount of work upon which they reap 20 per cent, profit when the ; money is turned over to the laundry concern for which they secure the or ders. Upon other than cash orders | they gi; 15 per cent. The University Suit. Pressing com pany, incorporated, ranks among the J most successful of the business prop ositions of the undergraduates. The students conducting it have a place of business not far from the campus, employ experienced help to clean and press the clothes and boys with handcarts to collect and deliver daily. Since its inauguration this concern lias proved far more satisfactory than the business places conducted for stu dents by outside merchants. Work is more satisfactory and the prices are not so high. The proprietors do little more than ! drum up trade, attend to the financial end, and each reaps about $2,000 yearly by this outside venture. Among the minor ways of making money tutoring is considered by Yale men to pay best. • Many Yale gradu ates have paid their entire way through college by this means. Among the agents, those selling typewriters, fountain pens and other merchandise receive from 25 to 35 per cent., while those soliciting mag azine subscriptions receive from 30 to 35 per cent. Medical students and those in the Sheffield Scientific school must buy instruments or tools that that are costly. Rival firms pay as much as 40 per cent, commission to students who sell their classmates these necessities. Plans are in the air now for still furthering the commercial side of Yale by establishing a printing de partment. It is pointed out by those who are anxious to see such an en terprise started that an enormous amount of money is expended yearly by the university for printing cata logues, pamphlets, programmes, of ficial reports, books written by the faculty members, athletic pro grammes, class and year books, to say nothing of the dozen or more publica tions daily and periodical. Such a university printing establishment would furnish employment foi many students who are trying to earn their way through Yale. THIS BRIDE SCORNS SCIENCE Stops College Professor from Making Food Tests with Husband. Rerkeley, Cal—Prof. M. E. Jaffa, the nutrition expert of the University of California, has lost his star subject for nutrition experiments, and is in clined to blame Cupid altogether for ’lie loss. E. M. Tidd formerly an at tache of the university, who won Jaf fa's regard by the diligence and zeal with which he carried out Jaffa's direc tions regarding what food to eat and how to record the results, has deserted the cause of science. A bride in the Tidd household Is responsible. The bride would have none of Prof. Jaffa's messes” as her husband's food. ' He was the greatest subject I ever had.” quoth Prof. Jaffa, “because he took a genuine interest in the experi ments, and used intelligence in the work. He ate just the things that were laid out for him, kept close watch on the results, and so his data was very useful." When Mrs. Tidd found that her hus band ate the things that Prof. Jaffa prescribed for him she declared that the programme must be changed. She was prepared to cook Mr. Tidd three excellent meals a day, including all the meat and potatoes and vegetables and fruit and bread that a healthy mao needs. She could see no sense in Mr. Tidd's eating for Mr. Jaffa, in the in terests of science, and so declared her self. Mr. Tidd gave up the pro gramme. Tidd has resigned his place as uni versity attache also, and now i3 en rolled on the list of policemen in Berkeley. SETS WORLD SMOKING RECORD Gardener Pulls at Pipe One Hour and Fifty-three Minutes Without Stop. London.—At the pipe smoking com petition at the Brewers' exhibition ir Islington the world's record for a nonstop smoke was broken by a Highgate gardener named Catling who kept an old briar root pipe alight an hour and 53 minutes. Each of the numerous competitors took his pipe and was supplied with an eighth of an ounce of tobacco, and at the word “Go” the matches were struck. Six seconds were allowef fc: lighting, and after that no religming was allowed. The second place winner kept, his pipe going an hour and 50 minutes and the third one an hour and 33 minutes. STEALS LIDS OF MANHOLES. __ Indiana Woman Introduces Innovation in Thieving. Indianapolis. Ind.—An innovation in the way of thieving is credited by the ■police to Rosa Josephs, a woman of 2S, who has been sent to the workhouse for stealing lids from sewer manholes about the city's streets. It is charged that the woman stole four from the streets on the South Side, and it is suspected that more missing lids might be traced to her efforts in this line. The police were mystified by the first report of the thefts. The lids seemed to have taken wings. Finally Detectives Simon and Hauser were de tailed on the case. They suspected that the lids might bring a fair price at a junk shop, and after calling at several shops located one. It was found that Mrs. Josephs had sold this li'\ and others which she had sold were afterwards located. In all four I were found. The lids are worth one dollar apiece, but were sold by the woman for 20 cents each. May Wear Any Style of Corset. Iowa Supreme Court Decides in Favor of Pretty Actress. Des Moines, la.—Actresses who re fuse to wear tights, models who are fickle about the style of their corsets, and baseball payers who are given to jumping contracts are upheld by thje Iowa supreme court in a decision handed down the other day, the opin ion written by Justice Weaver. It is in the case of a corset com pany against Helen C. Crosby, in which $10,000 is demanded because the pretty actress broke her contract to pose in the "curve" corsets at Sioux City, and went to wearing "straight trouts.” The case reached the higher court, which said she was entirely right. Her objection to her contract was that the company insisted on an advance man whose reputation or character she did not know. In his opinion Justice W’ea ver takes occasion to lament the decis ion of another state, which enjoined Lillian Russell from appearing in one ■ -**— ^ - -*** company because she had jumped her contract with another on the ground ihat the tighls they required her to ap pear in were too cold. .Justice Weaver says that court's ac tion was an “uncharitable conclusion.” He also refers to the case of the Phil adelphia baseball club against the far famed Lajoie. who was compelled to bat home runs for Philadelphia though his heart was centered in the success of a rival team. The supreme court in Iowa would be inclined to give him a free pass. In writing his opinion the justice goes into a lengthy dissertation on corsets, which discloses he has made a study of the question at bar. Reserpbles British Premier. A statue in Wells cathedral. Eng land, representing “The Fruit Steal er,“ is almost an exact copy of the fea tures of Sir Henry Campbell-Banner man. The statue is carved on a cap ital in the nave of the beautiful church and is about 600 years old. Buried in Embers 19 Days. — Cat Found Alive by Men Repairing : Burned Building. j Portland, Ore.—F. E. Beach is mourning the tragic death of his cat that had outlived being buried for 19 days when his store was damaged by fire several months ago. The feline on that occasion had been buried in the charred debris and was found by workmen who were remov ing the charred timbers from the base ment. Thinking the cat was dead the men threw the body on a pile of rub bish prepared for the garbage men. Soon after its limbs were seen to move. The cat was then placed in the sun that it might revive. It lay around in a comatose condition for several days. It was offered food, but partook of the milk very sparingly. Its hair had been singed off its body and its eyes were blinded by the Are, but It gradually exhibited signs of life, un til Mr. Beach began to bare hopes of Its living. “Of course, the sight of a badly singed and blind cat around the store was not an inspiring one,” Mr. Beach says, "but in the interests of science I wanted to demonstrate how much a cat could stand and live. One of my men, however, got tired of what he considered an eyesore around under his feet and he chopped its head with an ax.” Schools for Turkish Girls. Jn Turkey there are 1,500 schools in j which girls receive education. There i are 40 secondary schools having 3,000 ; girls on their rolls. The learning of i Koran is compulsory, and arithmetic. I geography and elementary science are | taught Immense Pecan Orchard. Maj. John S. Horlbeck, of Charles ton, S. C., is said to own the largest bearing pecan orchard in the world. He has more than 60 acres in bearing trees and his main grove consists of 660 acres V •* Emperor in Remarkable Health. The emperor of Austria belongs to that category of persons who through out their lives never even suffer from headache. The approach of age is not visible. This miracle may be ex plained by his manner of life. The emperor, who formerly smoked ten to 15 strong Virginia cigars daily now contents himself with two light ones; he drinks daily about twc glasses of beer and some light wine; he sleeps much and great care is taken during his sleep that cold is avoided. His majesty has lost only three teeth. King’s Rules for “Bridge.” King Edward is a scientific bridge player and cares little for high stakes He loses philosophically, never loses his temper, but has certain rigid rules in playing. They are never to play with a man under 25 or a girl un der 21 or an indifferent partner and never to take refreshment during the play. He takes bridge seriously and plays it for the interest of its prob lems. 1 .. i i M l By FLORENCE S. THOMPSON f (Copyright, 1906, b; Claudia knocked three times light ly on the study door, making a slight pause after the first tap, then hardly waiting for the low-voiced "Come,” from within,. she pushed open the door. ■'Oh. It's you,” said Pauline, glanc ing over her shoulder from her seat in front of the open fire; then she smiled and added: “I ought to know your knock by this time, but some how I never fail to look inquiringly when the dppr opens.” “As if anyone but me is ever ad mitted into this—I should say—un holy of unholies,” eyeing Pauline's cigarette with some severity. Paul ine laughed and moved the chair be side her a fraction of an inch. “Have one?’! she asked, extending a case from the taborette at her other side. “Thanks, I believe I wili,” said Claudja, promptly, taking the chair and the gold-tipped cigarette at the same time. She unloosened her furs, stretched out two small feet to the fire, and for a few moments there was silence. Then Claudia, after a glance around the room, said, gloom ily: “I don’t see how you take all this so calmly.” Pauline came out of her reverie suddenly. "All this what?" she asked, quietly. “Oh, don't pretend," Claudia was inclined to be cross. “These— er—flesh pots, you know,” with a cir cuitous sweep of her hand around the room. Pauline turned slowly in her chair, and followed with her eyes the wave of Claudia's hand, taking in for the first time critically, as it were, the room’s luxurious appointments; its velvet rugs and castly draperies, its pictures and bronzes, and books. She became conscious suddenly of the languorous odor of roses that en compassed her. Then having made the circuit her eyes rested for a mo nent on herself as revealed by the long panel mirror at one side of the fireplace. She studied, half curiously, that face that looked back at her— the grave, sweet lips, the violet eyes and brown hair; her eye followed the lines of her slim figure in its loose negligee, and rested a moment on the patrician fingers of the hand that held her cigarette. Then, after flick ing carefully' the ashes from the cig arette, she turned squarely and faced Claudia, looking earnestly at the fresh, lovely young face, now half mockingly revealed against the rich furs. "Tell me, are you happy, Claudia?" she asked, abruptly'. Claudia stared a moment, then caught her meaning. “Why, yes," she said, slowly. “I have a good hus band, a dear little child, a cozy home, and all that sort of thing, if that's what you mean. I’m not unhappy, nor even discontented, but—” she sighed a little. "Sometimes I won der why it has been given to you t« be what you are—courted, admired, envied, loved—” Pauline raised a protesting hand. ' Don’t interrupt,” said Claudia, in sudden vehemence. “Why were you chosen to be one of the elect? I al ways knew you liked to write and all that—so did I. You and I were girls together, with the same as pirations, but I never dreamed you would write—like you do, you know. Why, actually I've obtained a sud den astonishing prestige because I know you intimately. I'm not the [ rose, but 1 live near it, and all that," and Claudia made a face. "Now, why can’t I write when I de sire to as intensely as you do? I j couldn't put any feeling into any thing”—half bitterly—“to save my life. And why. 1 want to know, can yon? In short, why are you the traveler, the distinguished author— the only Pauline Courtney Trevor— the celebrity?” Pauline was silent awhile, then with sudden irrelevance: “How long have we been separated, Claudia?” “It’s ten years since you went abroad," said Claudia, “and you've been back—let me see—two years.” Pauline stared meditatively at her self in the long mirror, and Claudia lit another cigarette, then turned to look at Pauline half curiously. Her long silence seemed pregnant with meaning. Presently Pauline began to speak with low-toned passion. “Did you ever stop to think, Claudia, that these—” She paused, and as she sent another swift glance around the room, half smiled, “these Uesh pots were bought with a price?" Claudia drew back the least bit uneasily. “What do you mean, Pauline?” “That they were bought with my heart’s blood,” in sudden weariness, and leaning her head back against the chair. “It costs something to be—a celeb rity.” Claudia waited. “You were at our wedding," she went on, presently. Claudia said nothing. “And when I came back two years ago. alone—” she smiled at Claudia—“you asked no questions: you knew when the hour and the mood came I would tell you all there Is to know. I had two children," she wrent on, swiftly: “they are dead now.” “Oh. Pauline,” in shocked re proach, “you never told me.” Pauline lifted her head and Claudia said no more. She waited awhile. . Pauline stared for an instant at the j glowing tip of her cigarette, and then j went on: “I had written in a girlish | way for years—as you did—but what did I know of life and the meaning it held. What did I know of its pain or—” she waited a long second—“its joy. I know—now." Claudia laid a caressing hand for an instant on Pauline's cheek and waited for this mood to pass. “Do you remember my first book; ‘At the Close of the Day?’ ” Claudia nodded. “That was the price I received for my babies.” y Jo<ieph B. Bowles.) j “Oh,-Pauline, I did not know. Dear heart, don't tell me any more,” and Claudia, with tears in her voice, would fain have exorcized the demon of memory she had evoaed. But Paul ine went on relentlessly: ‘‘The other—the book that went into edition after edition—” “I know,” interrupted Claudia; ‘Across the Fears,’ was the price of—” Pauline moistened her dry lips and the cigarette crumbled into gray ashes in her trembling fingers—“my husband's infidelity.” Claudia put soft, entreating fingers on Pauline's lips. "Don’t, my child,” she said, sud denly years older than the world I weary woman. But Pauline drew the hand away. “He had grown tired of me, you know, after awhile. I saw. 1 tried to win him back. 1 was kind when he grew—careless. I tried to—to un derstand, and I forgave him his weakness because I thought he still loved me, love and fidelity in man's code of honor, of course not being synonymous terms. But he did net care, and when I saw that my for giveness was a bore rather than oth erwise, there was nothing left to <1> but to give him — the freedom he craved." She was smiling again, a smile that broke Claudia's heart to see. “Tell me, Claudia,” she said, sud denly, “would you change with me now—would you give up the husband and baby to be 'Pauline Courtney Trevor’—the celebrity?” “Oh, no, no!” and Claudia sobbed j “Would You Change with Me Now: | some of the anguish of her heart away. Then she rose, wiped lit : eyes, and kissed Pauline. “Pauline,” she whispered, "if mu could, you know—would you change ' Pauline walked slowly to the win dow, and behind the lace meshes . f the curtains, rested her head on the pane and looked out at the snow cue ing in thick, heavy flakes, silently and impenetrably down. Then she turned and came back and laid her hands on Claudia's shoulders. The eyes of the two women met and m derstood. “No, Claudia,’’ she said, simply JEWS ARE ACQUIRING LAND In Europe They Hold 248 Times as Much as They Did 40 Years Ago. The anti-Jew faction in Russia d. dares that even with the present re strictions the Jews have managed to acquire a large portion of land, for which the following figures are yu 1 I in the Jewish magazine, the Menorah: "Within the Pale the real estaie • the Jews advanced from 16,000 dessia tins in 1860 to 148,000 in 1870, 370,000 in 1880, 537,000 in 1S90, and to 1.265. 000 in 1900. "In the kingdom of Poland the Jews held 16,000 dessiatins in 1860, 148.00 > in 1870, 370,000 in 1880, 537,000 in > and 1,265,000 in 1900. “In European Russia outside the Pale Jewish landholding is said t-> have increased 248 times in 40 years in the following proportion: In 1860. 3.000 dessiatins; in 1870, 18,000 des a tins; in 1880, 96,000 dessiatins; in 1890, 262,000 dessiatins, and in 19o<>. 745.000 dessiatins." According to these statistics the total holdings of the Jews throughout the Russian empire, which only amounted to 70,000 dessiatins in 186" reached in 1900 the high figure of 2. 381,057 dessiatins. out of which the Jews own as their property 1.4 45,00' dessiatins, while the remaining 935,')" dessiatins are rented by them as ten ants. The Burglar’s Seasons. Capt. Spencer, senior prison mis sioner of the church army, tells a story of a certain convict's philosophic view of his existence. ‘ Well, mj man," asked Capt. Spencer, "what do you do when you are out of prison?” “Well,” said the convict, “in spring I does a bit of pea picking, and in the summer time I does a bit of fruit pick ing, and in the autumn I does a hi of hop picking.” “Oh!” said the captain, “what hi; pens after that?" “Well, now, mister,” replied the con vict, "I may as well be honest, and tell you that in the winter time 1 does a bit of pocket picking!" The missioner furrowed his brow in amazement, asking finally, “And what happens then?” The convict answered laconically, “Why, here I am doing n bit of oakum picking."—London Daily Mail. To Save Lives of Infants. The empress of Germany has con tributed a large sum of money to aid in the formation of an institution to be devoted to the saving of infant life, the mortality of infants in Germany being surpassed in Europe only by that of Austria and Russia.