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14 zHE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MAR CH 10, 1894-TWENTY PAGES. ing and fetid that attempts have not been made to eat ic. x “I am gratified to bé able to say that CURIOUS MUSHROOMS a widespread popular interest in :ush- eensenene eneereaeel rooms hi ly been aroused [in thi. P ‘ ae country. beginning to wake | 7 up to the fact that an Important so: ‘2 ot Agarics Which Grow in the Vicinity food supply in the United States has been 7, . hitherto neglecte Surope variow of Washington. Kinds of fungi cont largely ‘to. tne support of the pop certain r. st rat I need hardly spe FUNGI THAY AEE PATCHED FECM EGGS) “Ss: Mae 2 eeepc of the Water. Wien tje American farmer realizes that he c: produce expence a winter crop for which always a market demand, a new ¢ Day Appreaching When These - tural industry wili uickly develop. The Plants Will Be Cultivated. manure required for the purpose is all the better for after it has do service money than in he: time of year — SOME GOOD ANP OTHERS BAD and {i may be carri hen hens are not lay xploded dens. be ot that Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. One of them is to th a sily COLLECTION OF | sooon used for stirring them while they mushrooms which | ooo will turn black if any toadstools are gree: wid. te he fe ce thee wae axel tanne neighborhood of |p .ced on such a test, and a similar belief ton has been ertained ng a white onion is Placed on eX-| equatly with indation. Mushrooms MaKe fs’ he me change color when cut are not alwavs seum building of the! poiconous. Edible wally have an Department of Agti- | odor tike fre ewoe Ge laiaa culture. More ac- | suit no to be placed euratety speaki 1 that | rous wh) when cooked. The safes mushrooms that have a dis: “4 bY | Specimens growing in filth Taylor, | be looked upon with hues, such as Iso" suspicious. tter is in the identitication of sp gear in the woods and ‘ot long ago a man ‘ng from green turf, while others spring | asin: “With & (rom the bark of trees. | ans I shall call the 7 till you give me a better name “It is a fact well worth knowing that ane a Moke het they are models aries native t fon, prepa’ ‘Thomas Dr. who has made a life study of these inter- ; y are shown as thi esting plants. T for i een vexe- its habits it polsonous mushrooms always grow in woods | taple and animal Ife. It lives in £r or on the edge of woods.” said Dr. Taylor | hazel woods, on hill or flat ground yesterday, as he pointed out the different | first It pushes itself up thro varieties in his collection. ar as Tam | me fry Pragly aware, no dangerous agaric is ever found | {© SI7° Of on an open ficid or lawn. The ¢ pends u degree of humic orange,” of which you may see in the atmosphere. General ens here, is a plant of the about three d One other Lospatieac eagh it | 2 common with its t other membtrs of the ‘amanita’ family, | times dies andr und in the shape of | this description mig ped relative, it the * Of e a t apply te any of the an egg, which looks like a hen's | amanita family. frg on end. The egg bursts open as if to| “The manner in which a mushroom rows chick, and from it,the mush- | and develops is no longer a myste ts eee ee ero 4s are produced on the under side of the reom unfe Penn: salen opie and of such that a single agaric often hi 10,000,000, These — ‘spc Ned, when they fall up end forth fine cotton-Itke thre bring nourishment to them ing thus supplied with food from the earth, swells into a fleshy kernel. From kernel the mushroom ts completely de- veloped before it shows above the grow It requires several weeks to form, compact and in small com a moist night comes, the cells expan the mushroom pushes itself out abovi e. Though much is no st numbers $s maay as ity of this mushroom, which | its red or ¢ nge-colored top is sticky and ccvered with wart-iike specks. These | 's of the broken shell, which > to the top on s nt of its sticki- The gills and stems, you observe, aps the most poison- @ bit no bigger than a! nough to kill a man. It does ny alarming symptoms until swallowed, when ress. are white after being gome hours tes are ineffectual. Then coma su-| heavier than the day before. when it iay re ae cares aaah hidden under the top layer of soll. Such ts Lape typi Sie : ao | the fact. as opposed to the fiction that “It is a fact well authenticated that aj meyact, je Opposed th | certain botanist of reputation once partook | “Tha blizhia and mildews which attack | of one of these mushrooms for the sake of experiment, though he knew that it was polsonous. He probably supposed that the | (TIED fed apo eee diserees, portion he ate was too small to do any | thoy redueed the yield of the crons, serious harm. However, he died the same | occasionel by supernatural cles. night. A man living-in New England wrote | about them certainly me a while ago that he and his family had |2nd probablv tmpious. Tt is been made extrem ill by partaking of a that there are r as man dish of this fungus. fungi as of flow plants. Fecovered, and he sent me the uneaten par ‘Truifles Can Be Cultivated. af the dish. I left it, uncovered. at might! Until recently it d by morning it had killed a pint of flies ! ,, sana i. which had feasted upon it. Flies, oddly ee beagle cape enough, are very fond of it. Indeed, it is ROt be produced by c¢ a utilized in Europe as a substitute for fly | been discovered that th per, serving excellently for that purpose. | In fact, this sort of farming Is now Fiere ‘te another Very deadly amanita | which is pure white in all of its perts. “The true orange variety has yellow gills end yellow stems, whereas those parts in the false orange are white. Its top is not sticky and therefore has no warts. It is one of the most delicious of all mushrooms, though it is said that one of the Caesars died from eating a dish of it. If so, his trouble must have been indigestion result- | plants are now known to be ¢ by parasitic fungi, related wer: truffle ion. jand barren as possible. It |eable to plant the truffles themselves, but jdry and rocky ground will produce them. | trees, and it only remains to dig them up. Acorns may be sown for the same ing from surfeit, for it is entirely harm- | pose, but that method is slower. This less. On the t I have mentioned it | great improvement on the old plan of gath- is called the ‘amanita caesarea.” | ering wild truffles by the aid of pigs. eee | ‘The primitive m: ee | ples about, “On that tree stump you may see grow-|f root up a Ing the delicious ‘oyster’ mushrooms. truffle—they are one of the best of known varieties; but |on the snout and make him drop it. Later ¢are must be exercised in gathering them, |on_ trained, dogs were presse? nine = because certain members of the same fam- | (5"T'Ti ge extent at truffle hunting, Thee ily and of very similar appearance are | are fed p poisonous. They got their name from the | have acquired a taste for them. By culti- resemblance they bear to oysters in bunches, | vation it is reckoned that two acres though in color they are pure white. You | land) will yield $179 worth of truffles an- | nu: can test them very easily. Break off the! The natural production of the truffle used stem and lay the top, gilis downward, upon! t9 pe regarded as highly mysteriou @ sheet of black paper. Examine the paper | it is now known that a little @ few hours later, and it will be found | fy Is responsible for it. July is tt eavered ‘thickly with the spores or repro- | Period of acti and during that month |it seeks an oak tree and cut ductive germs of the agaric. If the spores | in “the root.” it. There it lays are white, the mushrooms are all right and | the scar thus made may be eaten with safety; but, if pink, | stance, which, clinging to the root, 3 they should be rejected. into a truffle. The truffle is about as big “Here on this oak tree you see growing /as a2 walnut, rough, brown and wart several specimens of the extraordinary | When cut open, its interior reveals a black, ‘beefsteak mushroom.’ It is sometimes | shiny and slightly marbled flesh. There is called, from its shape and appearance, the | more than me vari ‘horse tongue.’ T! young ones, you ob-| Truftie: ‘ur in some portions of the serve, are of a brilliant red color, while | United Stat but, for obvious reas: those more mature are darker. ‘Under-| very { is Known about them in th w. When cut into the flesh looks like beefsteak, and, cooked and broiled in slices, the flavor strikingly re- sembles that of meat. j annually produces 3,000,000 pound “Beyond is a group of ‘boleti.” Some of | fungus, valued at $a pound. them are edible and most excellent for eat-| grows a truffle of two pound g- while others are extremely poisonous. |{s known as “native bread.” ‘This specimen, for example, which is of a| to be sure of bright red color underneath, is deadly.| them whole, because they are much When cut open the flesh turns dark blue} tated. The counterfelt article usually re while you look at it, as if a brush full of|on appearance for deceiving, paint was drawn across it. That is a very | no favor worth mentioning. easy and sure test. All the boleti that are prea white or flesh-colored inside when cut are Peper ap, aay Beath they are ye |country, nobody taking the trouble to dix them up. They grow in various weight, wh The only way etting real truffles is to buy | imi- good. This variety here is one of the best. It grows plentifully near Washington, I know a German shopkeeper who s worth of them last year, gathered in this neighborhood. In Germany every shop that sells peas and beans and barley ns dried boleti in stock. They article of merchandise at country as dried apples are in the United States. “No agaric 1s better for food than the ‘fairy ring” mushrooms, which in this ccun- try are uneate! ncluded in the hst of despised ‘t Everybody has seen the curious rings formed on meadows | by these pigmy fungi. No grass grows within the magic circle which they form. = x It ts not surprising that many superstitions | 41 came to the counter and I didn’t should have been entertained res; much attention to her. After I was through them, the most popular notion bemg that | with the party I was waiting on I happened fairies danced the ground bare, using the| to look at her and saw her take jools’ to sit upon bet the turns. headed hairpin from a tray. I didn’t s ‘AS a matter of fact, such a ring has| word, but I found out who she wa its beginning in a single mushroom of this| night I went right over to her house kind. In the process of its dev2lopment it| told her what I had seen. She exhausts the nutriment in the soil imme- diately around it. The spores which it A Girl Detects a Shoplifter and Re- wards Herself. From the Buffalo “It was the queerest thing,” said the girl at the jewelry counter during the lull. “When I was in the other store uptown the floorwalker came around and told us all to look out for these people that go around and steal because they can’t help it. I was kind of green then, and I almost put my eyes out looking for them. One day a wo- and finally she owned up that she had taken Seatters do not germinate within the ex-| the pin.” hausted area, which, for the same resson,| “Did you have her arrested?” asked the remain bare of grass, but around the edge | other girl. they produce a ring of mushrooms. The} “No,” said the first girl, “but I made her latter when they die leave the bare space | sive me the pin.” Then she turned her enlarged, while a bizger ring of mushrooms | queenly head, pointed to something glitte concentric with the last springs up. Thus | ing in her hair and asked, proudly, “Ain't the ‘fairy ring’ keeps growing bigger and | Bigger, until finally it loses its “orm. ‘The Devil's Snuft B. “Of the well-known ‘y many varieties. All of eat that are white insi istied, they may be consumed wit When black within they are too oi wholesome, the spores having become ripe. | Puff balls in this condition are commonly | called ‘devil's snuff boxes." Here is a kind | T of mushroom called prinus comacns.’ see ‘Tragedy. ff balls’ there are them are good to! le. That test | From the Indianapolis Journal. a Ittle wal wh was donned, ne cried for b alas When it decays its flesh is dissolved into a} She couldn't black liquid, which times was | used for ink. It is absolute ible. | The mushrooms which grow on trees! ns and stumps are generally armiess. At| From Puck. this moment I cannot think of one tat is this ¢ micy are worthless as food. with brownish tops, ting in clusters fr in m stumps, an} stools hoy, glass is thot to comb me hair in it” The spore, be- this | } on. j which feed upon vegetable growths. It used | when To hopeless known species of was supposed that the could But it has was a mistake. a on in France to a considerable extent, the | land selected for the purpose being as poor is not practi- | plantations of oaks set out as saplings in |They grow about the roots of the young pur- \l was to drive the d, when one of them chanced are extremely They | fond of the delicacy—to whack the animal iminarily on truflles, until they of but } | tle | broncho up the steep sides of a rocky bluff, parts of In Australia | possessing | | miles around; | knew ‘That | | tried to! brazen it out, but I was too much for her, | § IN THE LAVA BEDS ee eee Horrors of the Desolate Regions of New Mexico. A TRAGEDY OF THE DESERT Locomotives Screech Where Apa- ches Once Yelled. THE DECEPTIVE MIRAGE — + Written for The Evening Star. plain xno Jornada Del Muerto, in New Mexico, is a Gesolate place. From Sap Marcial south- ward the traveler gazes upon a lava tora and rent, of yawni ages, fuil P Par away on the line of the west: ern horizon a fringe of green against the dusky background marks the course of the Rio Grande, an¢ on the east bold, bare untain ran; eut and furro ir a nd seams and gashes. Overhead the is blue and without a cloud, but the re of the sun reflected by the and black lava beds only seems tensify the horrors of ihe Jornada, a desolate, grewsome place. Men end ant- mais have gone mad here fighting thirst There is no water, no shade no birds, no life. Even the ‘asshoppers avoid it, and & Mexican pursued to the death will turn and face the scalping knife of the Apache rather than the silent horrors of the Jor- nada. Only wildness and desolation and Sreat silence, such'is the Jornada. It is full of deceptive mirages. Deceived by Mirages. Only a compa: tively few years ago a party of emigrants, with no guide and but m slighty acquainted with the country, crossed the mountain range on the cast side and struck out boldly, early fall. Looking out over the treache s desert the emigrants imagined they of trees, el 1 and grassy slope dows, and so they tray: Their supply of water gave the fourth day, just at sunset, the devoted ; asined they saw a beautiful lake r only a few miles ahead, and the sight gave them fresh hope on to reach it S came an rater. The party was composed of six nd one woman, a wife and mother, ne little toddler clinging to her st. Morning w ss plain there, oh, glor: head, with the tree grassy green me: s lapping and curli on the beach, Pparently was t uke. ‘The poor ants went almost wild at the sight, but the dumb oxen at the wagons, weak, ated, by “d no symptoms of eager- n, within a de y would ted ti control. The morning hours fy h noon came, the children ert 1 and the little boy in and and tfully s “lover the with no « ume parched and they stagsered hot, parched, cruel ground, nite aim or purpose, and with but one thought. one prayer, water, w nd there still ahead, now growing 1 now receding, was the fatal mirage, hold: ing h fri sed with its grove of trees. ‘The purty gered on till late in the afternoon, and then the oxen fell and refused to rise. The men gave up in despair one by one over the s speech 1 chfidren, ng and a nl would ter. Another night with its blazing heat, t the mother and her to each oth had eath the shade of one of the and were still alive. The stars covote, bold with hunger, en for his feast, gaunt hand and away. She had ro trees “just over bring them all some w passed, anothe the oxen all d children, clinging cl wled be ons frightened the brute nourishment for the baby lips still rived to | her breast, and the little boy with his head | on her lap could cry no longer, he enly | moaned. They were in the jaws of the Jornada and the terrors of the desert were upon them. A Tensedy of the Desert. At 10 o'clock the next morning, and some miles west of the point where the mother and her children were slowly dying, a cat- herder had urged his gaunt, wiry and sat scanning the horizon with his glass | in the faint hope that he might discover some trace of a gang of thieving Apaches. who had stampeded a few of his choicest | When the Apache | steers the day before. works a me n trick and ts apprehensive of |immediate and vigorous pursuit he always strikes for the desert, knowing that his trail will soon be lost on the lava beds, and then when he feels sure that the pursuit has been abandoned works his way back | to the protecting gorges of the mountains. The herder, with his faithful Winchester hanging at his saddle, horizon in every dire ion for miles and he noted every rock and | sorge and dark ravine, but saw nothing, and, wheeling in hi dal giving up the search in disgust, when his attention was attracted b » Which app some mere specks in the s ared to be slowly circling round and round and gradually settling vn to a lower altitude, Experience s the wits of a plainsman. It hard- ond glaree to convince him were turkey buzzards, the scavengers of the western plains, and he further, that when Mr. Buzzard slow- ails In a circle and then settles toward round he does so with the ation of feasting on some carrion. “The cursed Ap muttered the herder be- tween his clinched teeth. “They have jaughtered my steers and packed off the nd now the buzzards are coming t's left.” He worked his faithful down the side of the bluff, and, once 1 ground, worked his w the circling b view. Drawing rein onc saw the buzzards settling down which his gla covers of flash the h that th toward ut saw that they near two white soon told him rant. wagon jer took in t objects, were the Quick as » situation. F n slaughtered by the Apaches. th He did not stop to consider » the peril ther his i might te led in the vicinity. in a hidden a inst e put broncho down to a d ad | rging him with voice and spur and, | at the same affectionately patting | him cn th true plainsmen alway do, As he drew r rer he could distinguish the dead tle still fastened to. the and then hi horse shied at a t, with glassy and protruding tongue and hands clinched in a tuft of grass in the | death ny. and then another and an- othe ntil all the six men men were pas: out in single file. and who had i fell. They had w: ast two miles from the wagon: they hi lake, The heré in the whole stot lon for the w on rosaw it all ons in the hope t found might he rd the feeble wail m, strate form of the mother, ‘The rough herder, who now trans- und tende! 7 r ree canteen trickled down the parched throats, and with the blessed water returned Ife and | selousness to the woman and children. n he kindled and prevared broth | and coffee and « 2 same tn | homeo) trength re- turned, and at last, when the gallant fel- | encountered at many poiht. ! HAT VAST LAVA | as the the and rocicy hill- | | senoritas s are vant: with the cowboy and ; the coyote; but when the road was con- structed the country was practically un- | that he would get there on time provided with the idea of reach- ing Rio Grande river to the west. It was arming lakes and winding and ver- led on and ut, but on ea | attached sledge-hammer fists, and a general e | physique calei no hirt n- the sun poured down on the ver- y! but a few jected in the dows with the for bad A miles d been be- wor- and ore the blood-shot eyes and reeling steps of the emigrants the beautiful lake | country. | ing purposes, but having come from differ- ed tonsue | the next day's coursing and commenting on arefully swept the | | From the Boston G! cautiously | zards for a better | more, he not only | vere | | would doubtless hail them with joy. gons belonged to an em- | w had either perished of | situation or | id him that his | | something in her lap. eyes upturned | uth found them still looking for the | and | at a glance, but | at | ve. As he in readiness for ying: “xt instant he was bend- thirsting for | jow had made them as comfortable as he could. he rolled them all up in blankets, and, without pausing for food or rest him- self, rode back a distance of twenty miles and brought a party to the rescue. The mother and children were saved and the men buried where they fell. The herder never recovered bis but he found a good, true wife in the woman he saved, 4 it was from her own lips that the writer learned the above story. Building the Railroad. ‘The onward march of the western pioneer is not to be stopped by deserts, and in the course of events it became necessary for the Santa Fe system to build a railroad over the terrible Jornada. Wise men shook their heads and prophesied that the thing could not be done, and while they were prophesying the engineers and contractors set to work and did it. Lut the difliculties in the desert were simply immense. The water required for the railrond camps could only be ob: ed from Rio Grande » or natural ngs at the foot of some mountain range, and was hauled on wagons a distance cf twenty-flve or thirty mi! The rock en- countered in the cuts was so hard that it Now variety a band of yn on the line and p a few grader: stampede the stock, and it became necessary to place Winches- ters in the hands of the men and chase the Indians out of the country before work could be resumed. The genuine grader or mule driver not an Indian fighter, and oceasionally the tables would be turned by the Indians chasing the men out of the country, and thus werk would be deiayed for weeks. But in the face of all these ob- stacles the work was finally completed and the traveler seated in his parlor car now glides over the lava beds of the Jornada, reads his flirts with the dark-eyed d has no con- bid destance io drills or giant powder, of and then by wi Apaches would swo ception w end money and the towns znd adobe known, From Santa Fe south the only Modern metuicd of locomotion was the stage coach, drawn by a dozen untamed bronchos } and generally handled by a drunken driver who never failed to assure his passengers the road ts did not “hold him ap” or the Apaches stampede his stock. On one occasion Hon, B, Gratz Brown, who ran on the presidential ticket with Greeley, was ng the trip from Martin’s Well to Point of Rocks, and at one of the stations a new driver was taken aboard who chanced to be a little drunke ch a thing was possible, than his predecessor. Gratz ex- postulated, but the driver sung out “All conch runs on time ground In the high es." Relating the incident afterward % declared that he could verify the driver's statement as to the “high places, but he was not particularly anxious to re- peat the experiment, and that if he had the thing to do over again he would walk. ‘The grading cay brought together aj miscellaneous collection of the human race impossible to describe, but among the most | impossible of all was old Jim Best. He was about fifty yea: of age, with the neck and lungs of & butfalo, the head of a battering ram, long muscular arms to which were aboard, old m: and only tou uted to Ww any one who had offended him to resort to diplomacy rather than fi When Jim was sober and in the possession of his senses he was kind and gentle and would bear the rough horsepiay of the eamp without a murmur, but when payday came around and he had imbibed a gallon or so of the Taos lightning pecullar to t tion of the country he Was, in the la of the boy: a holy terror.” At last Jim became such a nui- sance that it was found advisable to get | rid of him, and one evening a committee waited on Jim and in firm but expressive language gave him to understand that his health required a protracted journey to some other quarter of the globe, and that he must never retu Jim disappeared, and about a week after his lifeless body was found floating In the Rio Grande. He was buried on the railroad grade, and to this day a ru headstone can be seen on is inscribed. “Here lies Jim Best. Died Noy. 9, 1880, a victim of hard luck.” a JACK RABHITS IN A FIGHT, The Fur Flew tm Reality and Both of the Combatants Died. A San Francisco man recently received two consignments_of jack rabbits from the They were to be used for cours- ent localities, the two tribes were continu- ally at war. An obs er, in telling a re- porter for the Call about one battle royal, said: “We were chatting over the prospects of the weather when a ‘jack’ was seen cro: ing the field in the direction of the escape with another ‘jack’ in hot pursuit. At first I thought some stray dog had got into the field at the south end and was driving the hares toward the breeding paddock. Sud- | denly hare No. 1 turned in its track and dashed at its pursuer. to speak, and then the fight was on. You shouid have been there to see the fur fly. There was no fake about this match; tt was for blood and fur. The rabbits rolled into che mud after the first charge, and as they regained their pins they rose quickly on their hind feet and slashed at each other hey telescoped, so with their front paws in a manner that | would have made champions of the prize | ring feel as if the r asnail in their movements. I positively never have seen such flerce fighting. At each stroke the fur would be seen to fly in bunches, nd the blow can be termed as such, were s. After a min- ute’s contest the pursued hare made an ef- fort to run, but it was so badly crippled it lost its equilibrium and fell in the | slush, where it received still further punish- | ment from {ts opponent. We thought that | the jig was up with No. 1, and moved slow- | ly toward the spot where the conflict had taken place. When within fifty yards of; the fighting quadrupeds the hare we sup- posed was dead or dying leaped to his feet and fought more viciously than ever. The| contest did not continue much longer, as the hare which had challenged its opponent fell back as if hit with leaden pellets and lay apparently dead on the ficld of battle. After driving the successful competitor away and picking up the pro: e animal we found that both of its eyes were com- pletely destroyed and its face horribly lacer- ated. We easily captured the ‘conquering hero’ and had the two little pugilists cared for as well as circumstances would permit, but they were too severely punished to sur- vive their wounds, and that evening the proprietor of the park found himself minus two of his ‘imported flyers’'—they had kick- ed the bucket.” SHE WAS BENEVOLENT. But There Was a Arrangeme a Blunder tn Her ts for Charity. My journalistic friend on the Beacon tells this stor} i A dignified and elderly spinster, who sits at an editorial desk in town, was asked by the manager of her paper the other day if she knew of any poor but deserviag person who would like a pair of his discarded trou- sers, and replied that her furnaceman Ac- cordingly, a morning or two later she found on her desk a brown paper parcel labeled plainly: “Old trousers for Miss W—s fur- naceman.” At night she carried the parcel home in her hands, together with another smaller package. Sitting in the trolley car between a cou- ple of gentlemen, she noticed that one of them seemed to be much amused about Ww was her horror and disgust, on lock- ing down, to observe that she had partly covered the la cel with the smalier, concealing the last part of the Inscription, so that it read in bold, black script: “Old trousers for Miss W—," giving her name in full, — +0 Too Much for Him, From Pack. | many authors considerable trouble. NEW PUBLICA’ POPULAR HISTORY OF THE BUS. A Complete Compendi His Voyazes, Discoveries and General Career, Collected from AM Authent a Digest of Ail the Facts Obtalnable “from Historical, Critleal, Biographical and Other Publications on the. Subjec Professor Natural Selene Rirds in Their Haunt -, and Foster, Offictil ‘Translator to the Pan-American Conference. Washington: Wom- an's National Press Association. Very far, indeed, from being a stilted es- say on the great seaman, and in its sim- plicity unlike any of the preceding efforts of any moment to show the world what manner of man Christopher Columbus was. It is a book without a theory, its authors being entirely careless as to whether Co- lumbus really discovered this land cr not; it being suggested in the introduction that it might be just as well to end the debate as to the priority of discovery by admitting that the aborigines first found the western continent, the glo: that should be his for giving America to the world. There is entire ab- sence of sectarianism and partisanship in the treatment of a subject that has Cer a history for the people. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF NATURAL AW. By Henry Wood. Author of leal ‘Through = Mental Phot Image in Man,” “Edward Burton,’ Boston: Lee & Shepard. Interprets political economy from the standpoint of evolution and natural law, and does it in a manner which entertains even those who would be frightened by the subject. The titles of a few of the chapters afford an idea of the book's contents. Among them are The Law of Co-operation, The Law of Competition, Combinations of Capital, Combinations of Labor, Profit Sharing, Socialism, Economic Legislation, Can Capital and Labor be Harmonized? The Distribution of Wealth, The Centralization of Business, Booms and Panics, Money end Coinage, Tariffs and Protection, Industrial Education, ete., ete. STATES' PHILOSOPHY, STATES’ ECONOMY ASD STATES ES, INSEPARABLE ' DISTI Batory. Baltiinore: Discussion, such as is found in this little handbook, has been M>. Batory’s delight for years. Believing that the object of the framers of our government was “a cheap government and kappy people” the author proceeds to point out what he believes to be the only way to national prosperity and personal comfort. He aims to show how every man can make a living easily, and has convinced himself, at least, that his ar- guments are unassailable. A better motive than that which urged Mr. Batory to pub- licity conld hardly be conceived. SOMP SALIENT POINTS IN ‘THE SCIENCE OF KE _EARTH. By Sir J. Wililam Dawson, 1.G., 1 F.RS. F. &e. With Forty-sit Ilustrations. New York: Harper & Brothers. Washington: Woodward & Lothrop. ‘This, says the brief preface, “is intended as a closing deliverance on some of the more important questions of geology, on the part of a veteran worker, conversant in his younger days with those giants of the last | generation, who, in the heroic age of geo- logical science, piled up the mountains on which it is now the privilege of their suc- cessors to stand.” Students of geology will welcome the information given and the con- clusions reached. ¥ THE FLIGHT OF THE SWALLOW. By Emily Mulbore Morgan. Author of “A dar den guadounas of, the | Smoke,”” &e. ew 01 nson D. F. ‘ashing- ton: C. C. Pursell, a7 The story of a temporarily poor French nobleman, who endeavored to earn a liveli- hood by teaching some of the young folks of a New England village how to dance; how he was unrighteously persecuted in the name of religion, and how he heaped coals of fire on his tormentors’ heads when for- tune smiled on him. A fascinating sketch of bygone days and ‘people who are now rare. MOQUT PUERLO INDIANS OF ARIZONA ANI et EBLUY INDIANS OF NEW MEXICOS Fon Consus Helletin. Dy Thowas Donaldson. Ex- pew eelal Agent. Washington: U1 pote ES ‘Office. reg Darn eccerae Mr. Donaldson is to be congratulated on this especially interesting contribution to modern ethnology. A vast amount of in- formation about a strange people is con- tained within the 120 pages of a publication which called for much research and ene=zy before it was ready for the printer. Some of the illustrations are very good. TWO GERMAN Frederick the Grea and ‘Hismarck, "The Founder and. the’ Bullder of German Empire. By Author of “Beacon Lights of History, Xe., to which are added a Character Sketch of Bismarck by Bayard lor and* Bismarel G Speech on the Enlargement of the Gi man Army in 1888. With Two Portrait: ¥ rds, Howard & Halbert. William Ballantyne & Sons. Dr. Lord deals fairly with the two great- est of Germany's princes, hesitating not to smite when he deems a blow necessary and pouring out praise in unsparing quantity when there is good reason for admiration. SHADOW OF THE ALHAMBRA, or ! OF THE MOORISH KIN B M.D. Knoxville: An interesting historical romance, the de- tails of which were acquired by the author during many years of travel and study in the lands where the scenes are lali. A book of heroes and villains, murder, mysy tery and love. MASSES AND CLASSES. A Study of Industrial muditions in England. Ry Henry Tuckey. Author of “Under the Queen.” “The Latter- Tang Fae." &e. Cincinnati: Cranston & urtis, Hardly an uninteresting sentence in this frgm beginning to end. Mr. Tuckley makes plain the precise situation of British totlers of both sexes, and makes many instructive comparisons. A good book for the discon- | tented American wage-earner to read and digest. A CHRONICLE OF SMALL REFER. By Reid. New York: J. Selwin Tait & Sons. The gift for chronicling such minor mat- ters as Mr. Reid includes in the term “small beer” is rarely bestowed, but it is possessed by this particular chronicler to a delightful extent. A readable series of sketches. Joba DOLLARS AND SENSE, FOR FIPTY CEN ‘The Money-Making Booklet. for Husinese Mee of Brains. By Nath’l C. Fowler, Jr. Boston: The Trade Co. The keenwitted merchant who has not quite mastered the science of advertising will find in Mr. Fowler's latest a mine of parorma tion and suggestion worth digging 0. DAVID OF JUNIPER GULCH. A Sto of the a beer, tons = ee ny Tanta, huey, author of “California Suns! a3 Chicago: Laird & Lee. ee Very much better than the average novel of today; a story that has in it a sufficiency of unobtrusive but none the less real prin- ciple. AMPARO. One of the Cortina Text Books, In English d Spanish. Edited by a Cortin works B.D. Cocuss, > EL INDIANO. A Three-act Comedy. One Cortina "Test Books, New ork! I Dae is Cortina. These volumes show clearly the workings of what is called the Cortina Method, and are calculated to make popular the acquiring of the Spanish tongue. fae OF ‘THE GEOLOGY AND PHYSIC. “RES OF MARYLAND, with a Gevlogk, bof the State and 16 Plates. By z Williains, Professor of Inorganic Gua ic Hopkins University, and William’ B. Clark, Associate Professor of Organic Geology in Jobns Hopkins University. (Extract. from the World's ir Book on Maryland, prepered by Members of the Faculty of Johos Hopkins University and published by the Board of World's Fair Managers of Maryland.) Balti The Jobus Hopkins University, THE STORY OF A LIFE. By James B. Good: Author of “The Golden Gems of Thought.? “Good ‘Things to ead." “Abelard ~ and Helolve." A’ Farmer's Daughter," A Trip Through Arkansaw,"” “His Heart's Best Love, 5 Blossorn,"* "Madge," “Aron.” “Ella.” Kausas City: The Kansas Novel Publishing Company. al A ‘Tale of the Inca World. By Anson ock, Author of “A “History of Chile, ins of Galllee,"” “Old Abra- ham’ Jackson, . Novelist,"” “Silhouett Afe,"” &e. Chicago: hue, H CE. By Maxwell Gray, he “Silence of Dean Maitland,” tof the Storm," “The Reproach Embellished ‘with Eight. Mlus- Ibert Hencke. New York: Lovell, Marie Walsh, Author of “Hazel “saints und * “Wife of Two * “Kor Love of Gold.” “fhe Lost Para. New York: The Mascot Publish- ROMANCE OF A DRY GOODS DRUMMER. By rk hands, &e. ing ‘Co. THEY MET IN HEAVEN. By George H. H. worth. Author of. “Hiram Golf's. Religion.” New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Wasb- ington: Wm. Ballantyne & Sons. THE COMING OF ARTHUR AND THE PASSING OF ARTHUR. By Alfred ‘Tennyson. May- nard’s English Classic Series. New York: Mayn Merrill & Ca, THE WON rank Barrett, Author of “Folly OF COLUM. Narrative of Sources, Making - By J. HH. and Acthor &e. but that Columbus be awarded | | A student's mind hed N OF THE IRON BRACELETS. By Morrison,” | is “Honest Davie,” ““Fettered Ee J. 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Written for The Evening Star. The Broken Melody. 1 soar'd above all ken of earthly things, As rev'rently bis fingers wandered Geftly w'er the strings. The master's noble Found echo ip the she stole, And as be slowly realized her presence at his le, ‘The wusle ceased the while be asked, “If she would be his bride."* answer'd not, ber gentle cheek with blushes feem'd aflame, melody appealing to his soul, maiden's heart as to bis side She stooped and kissed his forebead, be was answer'd just the same. And then, again, be struck the chords of that majestic theme. ola ‘Time seem'd loth to wake them from the happy, wondrous dream. Forgot they ev'ry care of earth as only lovers do, And so in flood of melody they started life anew. 1 But, ah! those splendid castles that have melted into air, Neglect and man’s indifference supplanting visions fair. ‘The modesty of genius seldom destiny can carve, A world “deceived with ornament” bad left a man to starve. 4 man without « rival @id the world but know the truth, ‘The fruit, now ripe for plucking, that bad blos- som'd in the youth. ‘The life of her, his “all in all," was ebbing fast away, He'd scarcely food to give her, in the garret where she lay. Ged help him! could he think of naught to give relief from pain? ‘The air they both Bud loved so! should be try it once again? He struck a chord—a wailing cry—and to ber side he flew; ‘The melody was broken and bis heart’ was broken, too. mm. And once again he played that air with laurels on his brow, ‘The proudest and the bravest vied in paying homage now. And as o'er hearts of all be beld a master's perfect sway ‘They could not tell he dreamed be played to au- lence far away. ‘That grand old melody once more! while listeners held their breath, His head fell forward o'er the strings—they called it simply death. ‘Twas something more! to take the wage. And bowed becoming entraace to that celestial For lfe of truth he w: stage. To that old theme his spirit flew to hers be loved so well, Orer audience seraphic be will weave that magic spell. And wander with his loved one through the realms of boundless space. Where melcdies are endless an¢ where sorrows have po place. J. H. BARNES. coe Different Uses for Salt. From the New York Tribune. There is no article of common use more often put on the table in a slovenly way than the ordinary salt. It should be pul- verized, and in order to do this the salt should be frequently dried and sifted. Spe- cial table salts, which are sold at the stores, are usually prepared by mixing a certain percentage of corn starch with the pure salt. The starch acts as an adulterant, and, while it is harmless in the salt for ordinary table use, it would not improve the asoning qualities, and in the case of clear soup would add enough thickening to partly destroy its clearness. The same objection applies to adulterat- ing salt in this way, though it be harmless, that there is to adulterating all other con- diments. Considered all in all, a pure salt, dried in the oven and sifted occasionally, is the very best for all purposes. Heat the salt as hot as possible in the oven for at least ten minutes. Then crush it fine with a potato masher and sift it through a flour sieve. Store it In a wooden box and set it on a high shelf in a dry closet. Treated this way, it will not cake. The only rea- son for its caking is the presence of damp- ness. Salt which is exposed to the air in a common salt cellar is quite likely to be- come lumpy, and for this reason the salt box kept in use in the kitchen should be covered. The Germans use little hanging recept: cles for salt in the kitchen, which are co ered to protect the contents from dust as well as moisture, and are placed against the wall near the kitchen stove tn order to keep it dry and be convenient for its fre- quent use in cooking. But the German kitchen is in many ways an ideal one. Salt, sugar, flour and all the articles which are in hourly need are kept in boxes of blue and white stone ware, which are much more wholesome and easily kept clean than the receptacles of Japan ware or tin, and are much more picturesque. There are many uses for common salt be- sides seasoning. Rock salt, which is by no means the purest salt for culinary uses, is excellent in the bath. The purest salt for table use is that prepared from salt springs. Ordinary rock salt is too apt to be mixed with other substances to be safe- ly pulverized for table use. Bathing the feet and limbs In hot salt water is said to soothe the suffering from rheumatism and neuralgia. There ts nothing more soothing in case of nervous restlessness than a hot salt bath taken just before retiring. The efficacy of a simple gargle of salt and water has long been proved in ordinary sore throat. The poison of mosquito bites or bee stings may be removed by a strong solution of salt water. A dose of salt, fre- quently repeated, is the ordinary remedy for hemorrhage of the lungs or stomach. In the laundry and in house cleaning salt 1s scarcely less efficacious than it is medic- inally. It is the simplest means of setting the color in printed cottons, though it may be used in the small quantity of a cupful to two ordinary pailfuls of clear, cold water to prevent injury to the fabric, for a power- ful brine tends to rot the material. There are various plants, like asparagus, which originally came from the seashore, which require a certain amount in the Soll to make them grow, while on most vegetation salt acts as a blight. There is no surer way to destroy grass and weeds which will spring up uncalled for in the gravel paths than to sow them with salt. A Startling Fact. Sixteen Per Cent of Life Insurance Ap- plicants Rejected om Account of Dis- eased Kidneys. Dr. Lambert, the general medical director of the Equitable Life Insurance Company, New York, sald: “We reject sixteen per cent of the appli- cations made to us for insurance, and I have saved the entire expense of this medical department by the rejection alone of applicants who had diseased Kidneys, and who died within two years after I rejected them."* ‘This appalling statement should have the atten- tion of our citizens. There 1s no reason today People should allow kidney disease to get such a bold on them. Nature sends ber wa! in the slight pain in the back, poor circulation the blood, sediment in the urine. When any these symptoms appear, Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy should be taken tn small doses at once, and thus drive the poison out of the blood and restore the kidneys to healthy action. To our Knowledze this is the only medicine that surely cures this almost untrersal cotplaint. We note the recovery of Mr. Oscar Lambert of Jerico, Mo., Whose case has been talked of in the Papers the’ world over. Quoting from his letter to the Press, Mr. Lambert says: “I neglected the first symptoms until I found myself tn bed with complicated disease of the kidnevs. No mor tal ever suffered more and lived. My phystvians failed to help me. I then used Dr. David Ken- nedy's Favorite Remedy. It relieved mr kidneys almost immediately, and in a few weeks I was clear of all pain, and entirely cured. Mrs. A. J. F.’ Manchester of Providence. R. 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