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This world is but a .fleeting show.
And little joy he gleans
:’ 1;, Who curiously undertakes
~ To look behind'the scenes.
.4} It is not what the player does
~£ That in the long run tells
:1 In rounding out his baseball fame,
But what the umpire yells.
.' 1’ The fleetest races sometimes fails
The victory to claim;
1': "Tie not the horse that gets in first,
But the one the judges name.
And so it is with all success
That‘ human life may see;
1 - ’Tis not the man that counts, but what
The man is thought to be.
—‘Washington Star,
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GROWTH OF THE BANANA TRADE.
Immense Increase Since the Introductiozs
of the Fruit in This Country.
The banana trade is astonishing even
tothose who are directly interestedin
the business, while those of the general
public who are unfamiliar with its de-
tails have no adequate conception of ito
size.
Only a few years ago the aggregate
iniportation of bananas into all Ameri-
can ports of entry was utterly insignifi-
cant' 1n comparison with the many mil-
lion of bunches now annually re-
ceived.
Bananas. according to researches made
and statistics complied by Isaac Tuck,
editor of the Fruit Trade Journal, were
first imported into the United States in
1804, when Captain John N. Chester, of
the little coasting schooner Reynard,
brought here a small invoice consisting
of only thirty bunches.
Bananas are now transported from the
(ources of supply to the various ports of
this country on a large fleet of steam-
:hips built for and especially adapted to
the carrying of the fruit. California. re-
ceives a considerable supply from the
Hawaiian Islands.
The active banana season begins in
March and ends in July. The fruit is
shipped green. If it were ripe it would,
in most cases, be in unmarketable con-
dition when received here, and entirely
unfit for distribution among inland cit-
1es.
While the great bulk of the trade is
transacted during the five months of
March, April, May, June and July, lim-
ited shipments are 'eceived at consider-
ably earlier and later dates, and ban—
cues are the one species of foreign fruits
which is sure to be found in this market
every day in the year.
The total imports of bananas into this
country for the six years from 1889 to
1895, inclusive, was, in round numbers,
about 75,000,000 bunches, or about an
average of 12,500,033 bunches annually
which were delivered at New York,
New Orleans, Philadelphia, Boston,
Baltimore and Montreal, Canada.
‘ The average number of bananas in 3
bunch of “firsts” is from .125 to 150, and
in “seconds” about one half as many,
the average number in bunches of
“thirds” being proportionately less. At
the beginning of this year “firsts” Were
sold at wholesale. for about 90 cents a
bunch, but on account of decreased ro-
ceipts as compared with the correspond-
ing portion of last year, and of the ex-
tensive freezing of the fruit while being
loaded here, prices were sharply ad-
vanced, and when Warmer weather set
in, accompanied by a largely increased
demand, with no commensurate increase
of supply, they temporarily reached the
unprecedented high price of from $1.75
to $2 a bunch for “firsts," according to
size, quality and condition of fruit,
“seconds” and “thirds” being sold at
proportionate prices.
SHERIDAN” 3 RETREAT.
Gen. Phil Sheridan’s Story that He Usafi
To Tell Upjn Himself.
.Once in camp myself, some of my
brother officers fell desperately in love
with a female voic; we used to hear
singing at night. It was simply an-
gelic,a11d, resolved to see the singer,
we followed its sorted through thickets
and rayinos till we came to a lonely cab-
in whence the singing proceeded, and
c1eeping up to the window I peeped in
and beheld a fade g reasy, middle aged
negress, barefooteda .1d clad 1n a single
garment of dirty calico, browning coffee
with a long 11011 spc on, while she gave
vent to the sweetest notes I have ever
heard. In my surprise I staggered for.
ward with a noise that attracted her
attention, and, grasping her coffee
skillet and waving it around her head
she bawled out:
“G’way from hea‘a, white man; of ya]:
don’t I’ll frow this yeah fryin’ pan right
at yo’ head.”
It is Not Yzm Too Late.-
When the articles of confederation
were drawn up in 1777 there was a
stipulation that if Canada desired she
would be permitted to enterthe confed-
eracy, but no other colony should have.
the privilege without the 'assent of nine
of the original States. This priceless
opportunity for obtaining prosperity
and freedom was ignored, Canada
choosing instead to harass her sister
colonies during the long and terrible
war which resulted in a complete and
glorious triumph and the establishment
of the wisest and Illl st perfect gove1n~
ment ever devised. Since then nearly
every other colony in the western hernia
sphere has thrown oil the foreign yoke.
Canada, the most e. ’tensive and impora
tent, and with advantages possessed by
none of these, has re: 1ained true to alien
rule. —Courie1-Jour"al
Outrageous Treatment.
Warden—Well, what’s the trouble?
Prisoner—I’ve been unjustly humil:
isted. . I am serving a term for net
being able to. account for $3,500,000 an!
you put me in a cell with a man who it
doing time for counterfeiting nickels.—-
Philadelphia Times.
Taken .1111.
He (at 11:30 P. M.)—Are you eve;
troubled with insomnia? _ ‘
She (wearily)—Yea. ‘very often.
He—I have heard that walking in th
11 air before retifing is beneficial.
. She (hopefully)—Let’s try it. You d-
the walking and I’ll retire—Life.
‘ WEEKLY- NUEWALK'GAZETTE
THEN
50TH PAPERS WERE USEFUL.
'l'he Fortunate Result of a Tennessee Jul-
tice Mixing His Documents.
Bill'Wiight was a justice of the
peace, and also an absent— minded man,
whose wife was as able an orator as
Xantippe.
Bill used to serve all his processes
himself, and to save time would sign the
marriage certificates in blank and de-
liver a number to the parson.
One day Bill had a process to serve
away up in the mountains on a semi-
barbarous recluse, who was sued for
damages for some misdeeds, and Bill
thought he would deliver a few of the
certificates to the parson.
So sticking both packages of papers in
the same pocket he mounted his horse
and rode ofi.
Reaching the minister’s, he stopped
and chatted awhile. and, after deliver-
ing his papers, he started off again and
took the road to the mountains.
The parson had a Wedding that day,
one of the parties being a notorious
horse thief from an adjoining county.
When the ceremony was over the parson
selected a certificate from the bundle
and unrolled it sufiiciently to sign his
name. On handing it to the man the
latter opened it, and his eye grew wild
when he read instead of a marriage cer-
lificate a warrant of arrest, signed by
both the justice of the peace and the
parson. He feared some trap, so sur-
rendered himself to custody.
When the justice reached the moun-
tain side he took out the paper to read
it and immediately saw its nature, but
maintaining his self—possession, he re-
cited the form of summons,'which he
fortunately remembered.
He-then returned and found the horse
thief' 1n jail, and went and saw the par-
son, remarking, with his own matrimo-
nial felicity in mind, that both papers
had unintentionally served the ends of
justice—University Courier.
The Greatest Gunpowder Explosion.
The greatest explosion of gunpowder
the world has ever known took place at
the Du Ponts works on the 7th of Octo-
ber, 1890. With their usual cautious
policy the Du Ponts have never stated
just how great a quantity of powder ex-
ploded at this time, but it is certain
that three magazines and three mills in
the upper yard were blown up, one
after another, and a safe estimate will
put the quantity of powder exploded at
150 tons. In this explosion thirteen
men and one woman vere instantly
killed, while twenty-two men and nine
women were injured, some fatally.
The explosion occurred a little after 3
o’clock in. the afternoon. It began in
the magazine for hexagonal powder,
the kind used in large guns and the most
dangerous, being made not in grains,
but in reddish, six-sided cakes, about an
inch and a half in diameter and an inch
thick, with a small hole in the center.
These cakes look like nothing so much
as the nut on a wagon wheel. At the
time of the explosion cakes of powder
were being packed into large wooden
boxes lined with tin, each box being
about three feet square. The tin linings
projected above the tops of the boxes
about two inches, and when a box was
packed, were folded over a tin cover
fitted closely upon the cakes of powder.
It was the duty of one of the workmen,
William Green, to solder these tin
edges down upon the tin cover, a hot
iron being used for this purpose.
On the day in question what he had
feared came to pasz._ A fellow work-
man, William McGarvey, was bringing
him the hot iions fiom a chaicoal
brazier about twenty-five ya 1 ls distant.
Green stood just at the d001 of the open
magazine, and all around him were un-
covered boxes filled with hexagonal
powder, ready to be sealed and stored
away. There were also dozens of boxes
that had been sealed. Just what hap-
pened will never be known, for neither
Green or McGarvey was left to tell the
story. But the probability is that one
of the soldering irons was a little too
hot, and by touching a particle of dirt on
the tin cover produced the deadly spark.
-—McClure’s Magazine.
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She Herself ““39. the Thief.
A11 amusing series of incidents oc-
curred at the Louisville Pure Food
Show. After the first day the mana~
gers found that scarcely a spoon re-
mained that they al‘ owed people to use
who wanted to sample the edibles. So
they decided to put strings on the
spoons and fasten the ends to the tables.
Several times worsen pocketed the
spoons, only to find themselves at the
end of a string, ané one exciting epi-
sode took place that was particularly
funny. A nervous, aggressive looking
woman quietly and deftly placed a
spoon in her pocket 1nd started to walk
off in that assumed, unconscious man-
ner which amounts to positive genius in
her sex. Presently the felt a pulling at
her pocket and at once excitedly declared
that she was being robbed. This at-
tracted every one’s. attention and also
ledto the discovery of the spoon, which
had unfortunately got Caught in her
pocket and was with some difficulty ex-
tracted. The expression upon her face
at the moment that spoon came to light
is easier imagined than described.
The Magnet En Surgery.
A few days ago 0. H. Fiske, the Old
Orchard hotel proprietor, got a needle
into his foot and was unable to extract
it, although he tried many ways to do
so. Finally, knowing the affinity of
steel for a magnet, he went to an
electric light station and placed his foot
near a dynamo, and out came the
needle—Portland Press.
logic on All Fours.
Teacher—~Why was George Washing-
ton a. great man?
Tommy—Because we don’t have no
school on his ~birthday.—Pi;iladelphia
Record. c
In the Great Pie Belt.
Housewife (suspiciously)—Aren‘t you
the tramp to whom I gave a whole
I’m hi3
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, mince pie last week?
Ragged Haggaid — Nome.
ghost. —-Trutl1.
. begged him to con":
‘ At first the rector de-'
. alone.”-—Life.
Spartan Training.
A young man who rode horseback to
perfection, was asked when and how he
learned.
“Oh,” said he, carelessly, “when I was
a little fellow my father put me on a
herse, and told me how to ride. Iwas
afraid, and slid off; but every time I
touched the ground he cuffed me and set
me on again. So, I found it cheaper to
learn!”
A certain stern Greenlander, when the
breakers were riding highest ever the
rocks, would place his young son in a
kayak and throw him into the surf. The
little fellow, with the double paddle in
his band, would watch his opportunity, .
right himself as he decended, and then
triumphantly paddle through the boiling
sea to the little haven where the canoes
land.
“You will drown your boy!” people
used to say to this Spartan father; but
the sage hunter of seals and whales would
reply:
“If the boy cannot right a kayak in a
stormy sea, he cannot kill a seal; and if
he cannot kill a seal, he cannot live In
Greenland. And in that case he might»
well die!"
Public Honors to a Veteran Nag.
*' One of the strangest celebrations ever
held took place at Greenville, Pa.., re-
cently. It was the thirty-third anni-
versary of the birth of “Old Daddy,”
the veteran horse used nineteen years in
transporting the mails in this city. The
procession formed at the engine house
at 1. 20. Mr. Hughes, Daddy’s owner,
accompanied by Postmaster Perry, rode
at the head in the mail wagon, which
was drawn by Daddy. Then came the
band, in regular order, followed by ex-
press, delivery and other wagons in
great numbers, all of which, with the
horses drawing them, weie p1ofusely
decorated with flags, bunting and ban-
ners. The outfit covered eight or nine
squares in length and traversed the
principal streets, finally disbanding at
the starting point. The entire city
turned out and many houses were deco-
rated in honor of Old Daddy, who
seemed to take a placid enjoyment of
the honors paid him.
A Personal Text.
There occupies the pulpit of a well»
attended church a clergyman who still
recalls, with mingled feelings, the
sharpest rebuke that was probably ever
administered to a person in public. He
was at'that time inclined to what his
father—a much-respected rector and a
Low Churchmbn—regarded as Ritual.
ism, and, in order to prove that the High
Church service was less sinful than the
old gentleman appea'ed to imagine, he
and see and hear
for himself.
clined, but ultimately consented on con-
dition that he should be allowed to
preach the sermon.
Permission was readily given. On the
appointed day the Evangelical clergy-
man ascended the pulpit stairs, and to
his son’s chagrin gaveout as his text
the 11 ads: “Lord, have mercy on my
son. Inf he is a lunatic_.”——,_London Telb
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.zzl provement in Field Cannon.
‘ The improvement in field cannon but
kept pace 'with that .in' small arms. It
is doubtful whether troops can be held
in column or mass formation within
two miles of an enemy firing the present
modern bieech- -loading field guns.
calibei field guns is over five miles,
and when a suitable smokeless powder
is found they may thicw a projectile
eight miles. Had MCCIellan had these
guns when his lines were five miles
from Richmond. he could have ruined
the city. No troops can live 1n front of
them when they are rapidly discharg-
ing schrapnel, tWo hundred bullets to
the case; andthey can defend them-
selves without infantry support, and can
be captured only by surprise, or when
their ammunition is exhausted—Gen.
Fitzhugh Lee.
His Afillction.
1 “You seem ill,” she said, soljcitous-
y.
“I am not feeling well.” {he youth
replied. “The fact is I’m troubled with
heart failure.”
“Oh, how terrible!”
“Yes. I started four times to ask
your fathers consent to 0111 1112.11iage,
and every time my heart failed 1ne.”—'-
Washington Star.
.A.
Why Hé'SWOre 011‘.
“Why don’t you work? Don't like it
I suppose.”
“Like it! Why, boss, work with me
is a passion, a vice. That is just the
trouble. The moment I commence to do
a. little, I cannot leave it alone, and it
grows upon me like drink, opium or
lawn tennis. This is why I have to
make an eifozt to leave it enti1ely
Tit for has.
“You say that the desperadoes came
in and cleaned out the town?”
“Yes; and now the town people are out
scouring the country.”—Indianapolis
Journal.
ltIoro Enjoyable.
Money would be m01e enjoyable if it
took people as long to spend it as it does
to earn it. —Economist.
COVERED-
WITH
SCALES
Eczema made its appearance on my head in
its Worst _form, and it continued spreading
until my face was covered with scales and be-
came a horrid sight. I had afine head of hair,
sev on years growth. and had to sacrifice 115.1
was in despair. The physicians had failed
even to relieve me, when One recommended
(‘ 111110111111 SOAP. My father procured a set of
( UTICURA Rnnrnnrrs, and in three weeks the
scales left my face and the skin lost its florid
hue. In. etc weeks I was entirely cured. My
face was smooth and my complexion clearer
and finer than it had ever been before.
Miss MARION A. SMITH, Sunbury, Pa.
SPEEDY Cnnu Tnmnmxr. —Warm bathe
with Curxcunx SOAP, gentle a plicatione of
CUTICL’RA (ointment), and mild ones of Con.
cum Resonvrxr, greatest of humor cures.
Sold throughout the world. Price Cancun 50.1..
Son. 2511.: Rlsownr. '
AND Culu. Com. Sole P1533; fauna): Porn- hire
a“ Ito Cure the Wont m‘miledlho.
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Popular I
Store.
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extreme iange of these 3. 2 and 3. 6-inch-
all N eningn Dress Gun 3. Jane 33. Capes And
IST_I|_N STIINE
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Saturday Morning, Sept. 2 6.
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OUR SPECIAL RUN FOR THIS WEEK IS LACE CURTAINS.-
We have bought 500 pairs of Lace Cur-
tains from a party who needed money.
It 15 needless to say that we bought them
cheap, and that we are going to sell
hem oil cheap,
We shall sell you
$9. 50 Irish Points for - $
38. 00 Irish Points for - $
6 50
5.00
$6. 75 Irish Points for -
$5. 00 Irish Points for -
s5. 50 Tambour, h'emst’ched, for $3 50 3
$5. 25 Nottingham Point
De’sprit for - -
35.00 Nottingham Point
De‘sprit for - -
$3.98 $4.50 Nottipgham Point
De’sprit or' - -
$3 50 3. 50 Noxtingham Point
Dr .prit tor - - $l.98
$2.75 Nottiw 112111 Fish Net for $ | .49
$2.98 $2.25 .‘.otti11-- -l 2 n1 Lace for $ | ,25
You never saw such a bargain before.
$2_7 5 Come early and get 111..- choice ones.
$2.25
THE TOWN STUNT. Eur. Main and‘WaN-i Ss.
A POINTER...
Is your plate glass or, safe insured?
If not, call on me and
I will write you a policy in the Mutual Plate Glass and Safe Insur-
ance Company.
Glass will break and burglars use dynamite.
In case of Fire
You should be insured. A policy in the Reliance 01 lhiladelphia
Phoenix of Hartford; Scotland Union of Scotland; New Hampshire 01
Manchester; Rochester German of Rochester; United States and Pacific
of New York; Security of N ewiHampshire or Granite State of Ports
mouth will protect you against the‘fire fiend.
‘W. is. humanely.
Real Estate and General I nsui‘ance,
IROOVM 1, GAZETTE BUILDING
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