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H, - - OUISIANA
,EAT AMERICAN PIE
:PUMPKIN 18 ONCE MORE THI
MONARCH OF ALL.
fmmense Consumption of the Luscious
Dainty Throughout the Land-Fig
urea Show the Extent of its Wonr
drous Popularity.
The pumpkin pie is once more
abroad in the land. On the counters
of the confectioners, in the windows
of the dairy lunches and on the em
bossed menus of the hotels where
wealth and fashion flock, it again
takes its honored place, to gladden
with its presence the heart of old and
young.
New York-pre-eminent in most
things-is the greatest pumpkin pie
eating city in the world. During the
peason, from September to February,
there are, on an average, more than
16,000 pumpkin pies a day eaten in
.hat city. Estimating each pie to con
tain five pieces, an army of something
bike 75,000 pumpkin eaters musterj
tdaily.
To make 15,000 pies a day requires
. 65,000 pounds of pumpkin and 10,000
wuarts of milk. Such dry, prosaic and
ieCt things 's 'figures are 'hardly in
Reeping with the poetic pumpkin; but
It 'Ia interesting to figure out the fact
that in the four months or so during
which the pumpkin pie flourishes there
are about 3,000,)000 pounds of the fruit
used to make the pies which are eat
en in that city, and a million and a
quarter quarts of milk. With a pencil
and an imagination interesting figures
of the consumption of the United
States at large might be worked out.
In the days when people who are
s- iow middle-aged were b.oys-for it is
to the male sex primarily that the
pumpkin pie has always appealed
puampkins were raised as a "stolen
,crop" a few seeds placed at intervals
in a field of Indian corn or potatoes
often giving, besides the regular crop
, a ton of pumpkins.
En ut now the pumpkin, though still
to some extent raised in the old way,
" ias attained the dignity of being con
a~l 'ered worthy to be raised for itself
leone. Pumpkin farms are numerous
x .'pi through the central and New Eng
e'ad states, and yield good returns to
,teir proprietors.
The largest pumpkin farm near New
irk is in Monmouth county, N. J.,
~'here a tract of 300 acres is given
lover principally to the raising of pump
pfins. The cultivation of the fruit, too,
S is no longer a haphazard affair, but is
..'-onduncted on scientific principles, the
i=i, being thoroughly fertilized with
.~tie special view of providing the kind
'if richness needed in the pumpkin.
ORIGIN OF WOOD ENGRAVING,
;..-'Many Countries Contend for the Horn
or of the Invention.
t.: Much controversy was at one time
:Lited 4bout,the country that could
,c .laim to have 'originated wood engrav
e'S-g. "A very 'simple process was
S:aown to the Egyptians for the pro
ý,.duction of stamps, and it has been as
i soerted that the Chinese printed from
i" blocks of peartree as early as the
'tenth century. The independent orig
S'ibtion of the art has been generally
:" redited to Germany among modern
: a:tions. In the Cologne district a St.
Christopher, which has often been re
produced, was cut in 1423, a St. Se
, ,bastion in 1437 and a Madonna has
been dated 1413. Playing cards were,
qi:" however, in use in France in the mid
md dle~ the fourteenth century, and the
:..ires were impredsions from wood
' blocks, states the Scientific American.
_ It' is allowable for France to dispute
S-the priority of Germany, and many at.
tempts- have been made to claim the
art as due to French enterprise. M.
'Henri Bouchot of the Bibliotheque Na.
tionale, now declares that a part of a
block with a representation of a cru
ciixion has been discovered in a coun.
try town of France. The costumes
are evidently those. worn in the mid
Sdie fourteenth century, and it is as
sumed that the wood block belongs to
some time between 1340 and 1350.
S Shrewd Paris Swindlers.
It is said that a shrewd firm il
Paris made a small fortune by selling
what purported to be bones from
dead bodies found in the ruins of
Martinique. These "bones" have
been found to consist of plaster of
paris.
Island on Peat Formation.
The island of Nantucket rests on a
Yast peat aformation.
Had Read Them Before.
This is one of the spiciest books I
ever read," remarked the hardware
druamer, as he turned over another
- -'So?" queried the hotel clerk.
:'Wh: a t's the name of the authoress "
Thought It Was Serious
'Big strike up in Milwaukee"
"What, the brewers?"
"No; the school teachers."
_ -"Oh, the school teachers. BSy, you
startled me at first"
.. GQospel Embraces All.
Srlatianity began with no denomi
gie.ml divisions. The gospel was
pasaihed from place to place.-Rev.
-'yr Niles, Reformed, Brooklyn,
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THE LOST TRACK
When you have passed, and earth, grown black river
dark behind you. And, ly the rocks I hear the whirl
Lies far upon the outworn verge of pools Anin,
time. Though hIlorl nd soul shalll quall and
When my hand, searching, may no body iiiver,
longer find you . I will wade in.
In any clime.
0 lloei t! beyond the tumult of the cross
If I hut dream your step by hill or hollow hig
Has left its echo falling on the wind, If lthre should be no voice nor any
I will arise and gird myself and follow trale.
Though I be blind. Only strange winds on leagues of grasses
tossing
Or if clear .sighted. I shall but discover And the wide space.
That. in the dew at dawn, your foot
prints lie Only Eternity with worlds to wander.
Where, through long Ilelds. the whistling A soul an llg the unknown souls ot
of the plover men.
Comes like a sigh. Andt, ( try heart, no clue, no footprint
yonder.
And should they lead me down to Denth's 1What then? What then?
MICHIGAN AT GETTYSBURG
What part did Michigan take in the
battle of Gettysburg, the crowning vic
tory of the civil war, and what was
her loss? Of the seventeen loyal
states engaged, her loss was the third
in numbers and the first in the propor
tion to the numbers engaged. The
following Michigan organizations,
numbering 4,834 :men, were engaged
at the battle of Gettysburg" First
Michigan Infantry, Third Michigai In
fantry, Fourth Michigan Infantry.
Fifth Michigan Infantry, Sev
enth Michigan infantry, Six
teenth Michigan Infantry and
Twenty-fourth Michigan Infantry,
Companies C, I, K ano B, Berdan's
Sharpshooters; Battery I, First Ar
tillery; Michigan Brigade of Cavalry
under the gallant Custer, consisting of
the First Michigan Cavalry, Fifth
Michigan Cavalry, Sixth Michigan
Cavalry and Seventh Michigan Caval
ry. Michigan had killed, wounded
and missing, 1,131; killed, 192. Many
died afterwards from wounds receiv
ed.
In 1887 the legislature of Michigan
appropriated $20,000 for monuments
to be erected on the battlefield in the
"A MONTANA BLUFF"
What is regarded as one of the tall
est "bluffs" on record furnished Capt.
Edgar Russell, chief signal officer in
the Philippines during the insurrec
tion, with a story, which he tells as
an example of western nerve.
"We were outside of Manila in
some little scrap," said the captain,
"and about seventy-five natives were
lying in a trench ahead of us. shoot
ing away merrily, but not hitting any
body.
"By .and by I noticed a little dis
turbance in our front. Presently four
Montana troopers trotted out of our
lines and started straight for the Fili
pinos. -Everybody looked at them
with wonder, and waited to see them
all killed. Bullets whistled all around
them, but they never halted.
"Slowly, just at a trot, they jogged
GIRL MADE GOOD SOLDIER
A story is told that while the Union
army was at and near Chattanooga,
Col. Burke, of the Tenth Ohio, ex
changed a large number of prisoners
with the rebels. The colonel noticed
a particularly natty young soldier
among those he received. The soldier
gave the name "Frank Henderson, and
said "he" belonged to the Nineteenth
Illinois. It developed that this soldier
was a young girl, and that she and
her brother at the outset of the war,
had enlisted in the Eleventh Illinois.
The pair were orphans and were
devoted to each other. She could not
bear the thought of being separated
from the brother who had been her
only companion from babyhood. At
the expiration of her enlistment for
three months in this regiment she was
WHEN STEEDMAN LAUGHED
"Among the Ohio Democrats who
were in the army early," said the cap
tain, "was Gen. James B. Steedman,
and he has a monument at Toledo.
Steedman had been a canal contractor
and a '49er, and was given to rough
usage of men, and when his regiment,
the Fourteenth Ohio, was organized,
the boys did not take kindly to their
colonel's rough language and ready
profanity. On one occasion he order
ed a sergeant on duty to remove a
pile of cracker boxes f"n,m a particu
lar spot in camp a:ld to do it as
quick as the lord would let him, as
he had decided that his own tent must
stand just whore some infernal idiot
had placed the ooxes.
"The sergeant, irritated, hut not
THE FOURTH ARMY CORPS
One of tt1 most famous organiza
tions in Washington on the occasion
of the Grand Army encampment was
the Fourth Army corps.
The corps was distinctly a fighting
machine. It was born of a great
battle. It obtained its name and
splendid birthright from the consolida
tion of the Twentieth and Twenty
"- t army corps, which had been re
-.-rihers on account of dis
---^s. %fter Chicka
":trq of the
- grunt
different positions held by the differ
er:t organizations. The infantry regi
Ients' monuments cost each $1,350,
the sharpshooters, $500 each, the bat
tery $1,(00 and the cavalry brigade,
one monument, cost $5.400. The First
Michigan monument is located on
what is known on the battlefield as
"The Loup;' the Third Michigan In
fantry in the Peach Orchard: the
Fourth Michigan Infantrr in the
Wheatfield; the Fifth Michigan In
fantry on Cemetery Ridge; the Six
teenth Michigan Infantry on Little
Round Top; the Twenty-fouth Michi
gan Infantry in Reynolds Grove near
Willowby Run; the Sharpshooters on
Little Round Top; the Battery Mo-u
mcnt on Cemetery Ridge; the mo-ti
ment of the Cavalry Brigade located
on Runnel's Farm, about three miles
east of the village of Gettysburg. JT.e
monuments were dedicated on the
12th of June, 1889. They are a credit
to our noble state, and the people of
Michigan can take a just pride in her
volunteer soldiers who fought in this
glorious battle and the grand monu
ments erected to their memory on
the battlefield of Gettysburg.-D. G.
Crotty, in Detroit Free Press.
on toward the enemy. The natives
fired and fired, but for some unknown
reason did not hit. On and on went
the quartet, disdaining cover.
"At last, there was a shout, and, to
our utter astonishment, we beheld the
seventy-five Filipinos jump out of
their trenches and take to their heels
in mad flight. The nerve of the Mon
tana troopers was too much for them.
"When they had all fled, thrcdwing
their rifles away as they ran, the
troopers came back, their arms full of
guns. That is what the army has
come to call 'a Montana bluff.' It's a
sort of nerve that lets a man open a
jackpot on a pair of deuces."-New
York Tribune.
Nothing is so great an instance of
ill-manners as flattery.-Swift.
mustered out, and next enlisted in the
Third Illinois, where her sex was not
discovered. In that regiment she
made a most excellent record, but
being wounded in one of the engage=
ments, she was again discharged and
sent home, only to re-enlist in the
Nineteenth Illinois. She served in all
the battles of Col. O'Mara's regiment
and finally was taken prisoner at
Holly Springs.
The girl soldier was taken to Atlan
ta, Ga. There in attempting to escape
she was shot in the leg, but even in
her confinement to the prison hospital
her sex was not discovered. After
recovering from the wound inflicted
by the prison guard she was sent to
Graysvllle, where she was exchanged.
She was sent to her Illinois hoxne.
frightened, looked over the ground,
returned, saluted, and asked. 'Where
will you have the boxes put. colonel?'
The colonel rose in his wrath and told
the sergeant he was a blankety blanik
fool. Tno sergeant saluted again
and said: 'But where will you have
the boxes put, colonel?' Steedman
roared: 'Take them away, man, I
don't care where: take them to hell.'
To this the imperturbable sergeant
replied with a salute. 'Excuse me,
colonel. )tllt would't they he more
out of your way and less likely to
trouble you again if 1 took them to
heaven?' Steedman was amazed, but
he turned his back on the sergeant to
laugh in the face of his adjutant as
he murmured, 'Take him away.' -
zation. It consisted of seventy-st.
regiments of infantry and nine bat
teries of artillery, who bore their
colors to the front on many a hotly
contested field.
The states represented in the corps
were as follows: Illinois. Indiana,
Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, ,Mis.
sourl, Kansas and Wisconsin. The
three divisions of the corps were com
manded by Major Generals Devic. S.
Stanley, Philip H. Sheridan, and
Thomas J. Wood. General Granger
soon gave place to Gen. O. O. Howard,
pnd ,erldan to Gen. John Newtor
FOR AL'. THESE.
I thank thee. Lord, that I amn straight earth
and strong. lRipe fruits and laughter, lying doWn to
With wit to work and hope to keep ime sheep.
bravo; Th, .olllle of ligltedl t) i s. the graver
That two score years, unfathomed, still ,rth
belong ()f I) jting hurl;nn hea'ts that laugh
To the allotted life thy bounty gave. aud weep.
I thank thee that the sight of sunlight I thank the that as yet I need not
lands know.
And dipping hills, the breath of even- Yet nt.ed not fear, the mystery of the
Ing grass-- end:
That wet, dark rocks and flowers in my IBut more than all, and though all these
hands should go
Can give me dally gladness as I pass. Dear Lord, this on mny knoes!-I thal
thee for my friend.
I thank thee that I love the things of - Juliet Wilbur Tomkins.
PRAYER AND PROGRESS
Prayer Is necessary to progress.
That principle is fundamental for the
construction of character and the con
duct of affairs. The world is fond of
boasting or its progress, while half of
the time it does not understand in
what true advance consists. All pro
gression is not progress. A march in
the wrong direction, demanding even
tually a counter-march back, contrib
utes nothing to the success of a <@*m
paign. A great deal of the motion and
commotion in the world represents
just this sort of tramping about to no
purpose. It is activity, but not ad
vance.
It is here that the office of prayer
comes in usefully, since prayer se
cures that wisdom from on high which
directs the steps of a good man into
the path of a true progress. The
sincerely prayerful man will lose no
time in the by-paths of sin or the
mist-covered morasses of bootless
theorizing. Instead of remaining a
ploral truant or tramp, he will become
; pilgrim to a definite heavenly goal,
and a spiritual discoverer, adding
treasures of great value to the knowl
edge and culture of mankind. If any
man lacks wisdom let him ask of God.
There is no other way to avoid not
only the pitialls of a positive sin, but
as well the sinuous and tangled trails
of profitless speculation or self-seeking
along which multitudes stumble and
stagger to their eternal hurt and un
doing.
Refreshment for the Mind.
How welcome would it often be .to
~nany a child of anxiety and toil to be
suddenly transferred from the heat
and din of the city. the restlessness
and worry of the- mart, to the mid
night garden or the mountain top!
And like refreshment does a high
faith, with its infinite prospects ever
open to the heart, afford to the worn
and weary. No laborious travels are
needed for the devout mind, for it car
ries within it Alpine heights and star
lit skies, which it may reach with a
moment's thought and feel at once the
loneliness of nature and the magnifi
cence of God.--James Martineau.
Our Duty to Know Our Duty.
If a man does as well as he knows
how, he is likely to think that he does
as well as can be expected of him.
But he makes a sad mistake who acts
on that idea. It is every man's duty
to know what is right, and then do it.
God's commands are "Thou shalt" and
"Thou shalt not." There is no allow
ance for ignorance of the right way.
In human society it is a man's duty
to know the law, and then to do it.
And that is God's standard for man.
OUR IDEALS GOVERN US
We live in the throes of an intensely
energetic age. We boast that we live
fast, think fast, and travel fast, and
that the telegraph and the press have
indefinitely multiplied our sensations.
if our faces are eager and anxious,
we do but reflect our environment. It
was said of John Keats that his face
was the face of one who had looked
upon a glorious vision; on other words
he had fixed his inward eye upon
beauty. You cannot have the face of
the dreamer without the dream, the
quiet eyes of the saint without the
discipline of the saint. Do not ask
magical and impossible th'ings; be rea
sonable. Figs do not grow on thistles,
nor grapes on thorns. This univer-al
law governs everything, and to have
the calm brow you must have the calm
soul, and if you think on pure things,
you will be pure. Our ideals govern
us, and what we think, we are; what
we most think of. we most resemble.
Rev. W. J. Dawson.
Rev. Francis E. Clark.
Editor-in-Chief of The Christian Em
deavor World.
UNSEEN DOORKEEPERS
"Sometimes we see the Angel who
opens us the door of opportunity, but
piore often we do not see him, just as
Peter did not see him. Sometimes
iGod makes very plain to us the lead
,og of his Providence, but far more
often things seems to happen of their
vwn accord. No gate opens without
the gate-opener. If any blessing has
come into your life. you may be sure
:hat someone put it there. If you hear
Sny call there is a month behind the
roice. Not at haphazard has any open
ing of your life come to you. Some
hand has taken down the bars; some
arm has pushed back the doors. The
cloud of witnesses are more than wit
nesses, they are preparers; they are
assistants. Your dead father is still
helping you if you will let him. Your
dead mother is still lifting your bur
dens. The Angels are God's minis
ters sent on his errands, and what
errand more pressing than to aid
God's children. When next you ap
proach some closed door, whether it
be closed by sickness or poverty, of
former failure, or what not, do not
see the door. do not think of it, but
think only of the unseen Angel wait
ing beside it. And remember, it is
only by following the angels you see
that you can obtain the good offires
of the angels you do not see."-Amos
B. Wells.
Lawyers' suits are sometimes mis
fits.
LET US TAKE THE LESSON
Do we not sometimes feel, in trial
or perplexity, that others might help
us ift they would only stop and listen?
But they will not, and in their con
stant hurry we know it is little use to
speak. Let us note the lesson for our
selves and give what we ask-leisure
to hear, attentive. concenetrated, not
divided---calm, patient consideration.
It may be our busy work. as we think,
for the Master. which so overcrowds
our lives that we have not time for
tnis "standing still." Sad eyes meet
ours. but we cannot stay to read their
story. Some look to us for help in bat.
ties which we folght long ago, but we
cannot turn asidel to see how it fares
with them in the strife. cr to whisper
the secret of victory. But He would
have said even though some plans of
our own for his service were put
aside. "Ye have dlone it unto us."-HL
Bowman.
A banana teel is no respecter of
rank. It will rcll down anything.
TRUTH IN RELIGION
An astronomer notices the slower
or quicker rate of motion in a planet
at one part of its orbit, and he tells
you that there must be a world beyond
it, not yet seen.
-He tells you its size, its gravity, its
orbit, its rate of motion; and when at
last Neptune is discovered, it proves
to be precisely that which Uranus dic
tated by his perturlations.
And so it is, that our religious doc
trines are not, wit,, us. a mere dogma;
they belong to a gr':;t scheme of re
vealed truth, all (f which stands or
falls togict her.
As sulrely as ,ne star leads us to
another, so smol;l cd'-; 'l. one doctrine
briing u fartn to lface with their se
An n;i ' in'!t nail r, as i0 a sorry
apology ti any ( i:: :oniach.
DEMAND SHORTER DAY
One hunldred allnd twenty-live ma
chine shops in Chicago have adopted a
nine-hour dlay for their machinists.
This was in complian~L with a de
mand of the International Association
,of Machinists sent to the shop owners
the latter part of August. The asso
tcti have ' an 'er?('j The
h12-1W--t:Lc~it U? 1;u (~ia jfiusts are
mnakirg daily to ;hr ,hIoTs and
renew in; tl* · lt·;i!!! r th!i V employ
ers in pe" son. "It =aid a' thorita
tiv-oly that t follow in every
shop in ,he (.dnmaid of the men
BACKACHE.
Backache is a forerunner an
one of the most common symp
toms of kidney trouble an
womb displacement.
READ MISS BOLLMAN'S EXPERIENC
"Some time ago I was in a ver
weak condition, my work made
nervous and my back ached frightfull"
all the time, and I had terrible head
aches.
" My mother got a bottle of Lydia
E. Pinkhain's Vegetable Con
pound for me, and it seemed to
strengthen my back and help me at
once, and I did not get so tired as
before. I continued to take it, and it
brought health and strength to me,
and I want to thank you for the
good it has done me."- Miss KATs
BOLLMAN, 142nd St. & Wales Ave.,
New York City. -$5ooofrfeit IforiginaIof
aboue letter proving genuineness cannot be produced.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound cures because it is
the greatest known remedy for
kidney and womb troubles.
Every woman who is puzzled
about her condition should write .
to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass.,
and tell her all.
The empress dowager of China in
tends establishing a girls' school in
the palace at Pekin. Ten daughters
of princes will be the students. The
reason is that the empress needs in
terpreters when entertaining the
wives of foreign ministers.
Do Tour Feet Ache and Burnt
Shake into your shoes, Allen's Foot
Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes
tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures
Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Hot and
Sweating Feet. At all Druggists and
Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE.
Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y.
Cattle can be sent at less cost from
Chicago to Liverpool (about 4000
miles) than from Northumberland to
Liverpool. It costs more ,to send one
ton of goods from London to the wet
of Ireland than from London to Japan.
THE BEST RESULTS IN STARCHING
can be obtained only by using Defiance
Starch, besides gettinr 4 oz. more for
same money-no cooking required.
To Cure a Cold In One day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25o.
In affairs of life many peculisr
things arise.
PUTNAM FADELESS DYES pro
duce the brightest and fastest colors.
While malaria is not contagious
from person to person, it is neverthe
less advisable to keep infected per
sons from healthy places beca .se they
infect the mosquitoes that bite them,
and these, in turn, infect other hniman
beings.
, DEFIANCE STARCH
ahould be in eve., household, none eo
good, besides 4 oz. more for 10 cents than
any other brand of cold water starch.
J. H. Stoddart, who looks back to a
career of seventy years on the stage,
is the Nestor of the profession in
America, antedating Joseph Jefferson
by several years.
Of the 47,332,840 acres within Mani
toba, 6,329,000 are taken up by lakes
and 25.000,000 are cultivable.
DREISS' SPUCIVIC HSAnAcIS POWRSs-
Cheonly harmless and sure cure for all Leadsa5 .
Price i0 and J50o. sent by al I upon receipt of pris
Ldolpb Dreies, ii Alaso '±aza, asn Antonlo TO.
De sure that you hold up your end l
your earthly duties.
Mrs. Winslow'sa Soothing Syrup.'
Far childrcn teething, softens the gums, reduces Is.
alnuatl on, allays pain, cures wind colic. 2c a bothI
Refinement attracts the admiration
of all mankind.
Energy all gone? Headache? Stomuob
outof order? nimply acaseof torpidllver.
Burdock Blood Bittera will make anewm
or woman of you.
The henpecked husband doesn't
crow about ,it.
MeCANE'S DETECTIVE AGENCY,
Houston, 'rexa, lot trained and reliable d.s
tective service
The business instinct is sometimes
truly wonderful.
Defiance starch is put up 16 ounces
In a package, 10 cents. One-third
more starch for same money.
cBelgium's po!ulation by the 1901
census is 6,799,999.
Don't you know that Defiance Starch
nesides being absolutely superior to
any other, is put up 16 ounces in pack
age and seels at same price as 12
ounce packages of other kinds?
Home-made bread is responsible0or
many a crusty temper.
Hives are a terrible torment to the little
folks, and to so.t oider ones. Easiy cured
Doan's o y cured
e, periantmean nev fails. Instant r
Peter Benoit, the Flemish composer.
i1l have a attue in Antwerp.