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The Country's Trade
Phil1deiphia Times.

Telegraphic advices from thirty-seven lead
ing trade centers throughout the country to
Brddstreefs Journal foreshadow an early
opening of brisk fall trade. At some points
In Indiana, at st. Louis, Louisville and else
where the opinion is held that owing to short
crops in Immediate localities a curtailment
Of the autumn's business at these points
must result. At most other cities, however,
the outlook is decidedly the reverse. There
has been considerable excitement at the
principal grain markets during the past
week, and sharp advance in the leading
staples. Canal shipments east from Buffalo
continue light, and boats are being laid up
in consequence. There are no new features
TO chronicle from industrial centers, manu-
facturers still reporting orders in excess Of
their capacity. The failures throughout the
United States and Canada reported TO Brad
streets Journal during the past week were
s6-the usual weekly average-a decrease
ct so from the record of the preceding week,
which was the exception at this season OF
the year. The greatest decrease is noted in
California, New England and the Southern
States. The t,tal failures in the Middle
States were q, decrease of /. New Eng
land, 1s; decrease of 10. Southern States,
4; decrease of 8. Western States, %; q
decrease of 1. California and the other Pa
ciic Coast States, 8; adecrease Of IL. Car
ada and the Provinces, IL; decrease of Q.
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CANNIBALS IN THE SOUTH SEAS.
Men Killed and Eaten by Natives on the Shores
of New Britain.
From the San Francisco Chronicle.

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
The steamer Zelandia, from Australia, ar
rived late last night with fresh advices from
the South Sea Islands and Hawaii. A special
reporter was sent out last November by the
Sydney Telegraph to report upon the South
Sydney and gives the following details about
the disturbed state of the islands in the
South Pacific: ave, In the ship Atlantic,
found the whole coast Of Guadalcanar dan
gerous. The natives tried three times to
catch us off our guard aud fred at us. As
we passed Off Langhoe, at Buckatoo Isabel,
we were swarmed upon by natives, forty
seven canoes being alongside, And not less
than 240 natives being on our deck. In the
canoes were tomahawks, loaded guns, and
spears and money to pay for our heads. The
steamer Ripple, Captain Woodhouse, brought
news of two more murderous outrages by
natives Of New Britain. One has resulted
in the loss of the German naturalist Klein
smith, with two Frenchmen of the Marquis
De Rays expedition. The other is Homo
lulu native, who was trader. Kleinsmith
went across from his station at Duke Of
York, where he left his wife, and when talk
ing with the natives was struck down with
out chance for his life. The two unfortu-
nate remnants Of the ill-fated French coloni-
zation organization shared the same death.
Kleinsmith was all through the American
-
Daniel Hall. He left the ship in the even
ing, saying that one of the natives had stolen
something from him. In the morning news
came that he was dead. He was killed al
most as soon as he put his foot on shore.
Captain Wood has endeavoied to obtain the
body from the natives, in order to give it
burial, but their thirst for blood and greed
for human flesh was greater than their avar-
ice and he was eaten.
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There are at this time scattered through
the mountains of California 1000 prospect
ers. Their lives are spent looking for signs
or gold. They are peor and their dress pro-
claims IL. They live on hope and scanty
food, and never refuse to take something =
Pick In hand their sharp eyes are quick TO
spy speck Of gold In the fragment Of quartz
turned up. The country Is covered with
their little shafts and with stakes marking
their pre-enption claims, always l,200 feet
along the supposed outcrop Of the vein- OF
1000 20 marked, perhaps one or two may
amount t. something, and one In 1000 OF
these adventures, after . life Of privation,
may succeed In realizing small competency.
But they average happier lives than most
people. They imagine themselves prospec-
tive miIliomaires. A bit Of quartz with three
specks OF gold seen through magnifying
gIsss sets them Wild. There's nillions In Il.
but their Gypsy life and IT, happy excite-
isent unfit them for quiet enioymeet- ln age
some give Il mp, and 60 back ~ the wilder
ness and 70 the excitelnent of pr'specting
adventure.
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About Love.
Boston Transcript.

Mr.. Factandfancy has noticed:
That the boy who Is most afraid Of the
girls is the first to be corraled into matri-
mony.
That the little boys prefer boys to girls.
That they soon change, never 20 60 back
to their early love.
That the little girls love the girls best.
That they don't get over their preference
as soon as the boys do-some of them never.
That women love the men because they
lore everything they have to take care of.
That men love women because they can't
helpit.
That the wife loves her husband so we'll
that she has no thought for other men.
That the husband so loves his wife that he
loves all women for her sake.
That the married man is apt to think him
self all-killing among the fair sex simply
because he has found one woman fool
enough to marry him.
That homely husbands are the best. They
never forget the compliment paid them by
their wives In accepting them.
That homely wives are the truest. They
know how to make the most Of what they
have.
That the man who marries late in life does
we'll.
That the man who marries young does
better.
That the man who never marries Is to be
pitied.
That the woman who marries does we'll.
That the woman who does not marry does
better nine times out Of ten.
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A MISJUDGED FRIEND.

The gardener shut the garden gate,
And went to weed the onion bed;
The growing plants stood tall and straight
But what is this ?" surprised, he said.
Some broken bricks, some stones and sticks
And underneath them, crushed and dead,
large brown toad flames, Martin, Fred =
He called three little boys, who played
Near by, beneath D pear trees shade,
And sternly asked. "What cruel play
Is this you've been about to-day ?"
otis very hard we should be blamed,
I'm sure!' poor little James exclaimed:
1--WE only killed the toad because
An ugly-looking thing he was
So very ugly that we knew
He surely would some mischief do.
He had great warts upon his back,
And curious blotches, green and black,
And darting tongue, and strange fat head -
And how he sprawled his legs" cried Fred
"His mouth" said Martin, " was so wide,
1t reached far round on either side;
And queer winks with his eyes he'd give;
We did not dare to let him live.
We had TO kill that toad because
An ugly-looking thing he WAS"
The gardener gravely shook his head;
" 1t was a heartlcss thing" he said;
And more than that, you may depend
UDon my word, you've killed friend;
For often Mt my work I've found
This same toad near me, hopping round,
And. watching him, I've Learned thai he
My constant helper used to hr
A second gardener, without pay,
Who still was busy every day.
4" He killed the young potato" hugs,
The caterpillars and the slmg',
The b,-tles striped with yellow lines,
That spoil the tender melon vines,
And looked round with blinking eyes
For cabbage-worms and turnip-fiies,
Low-fying moths with downy wings,
And Shiny snails In shady hooks.
It was the cruellest Of things
To kill poor Hop Toad for his looks.
" And il, when you shall older grow,
You strangers judge by outward show,
You'll be as foolish a. unjust:
In worthless men you'll put your trust,
And often sorrow, In the end,
For having wronged some honest friend"
Martin Douglas, in Nursery.
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Jasper, the Negro Preacher.
From the Boston Congrega,ionaiist.

From the Boston Congregationaiist.
regret that have forgotten the preachers
text, which was, however, from the early
part of the Book of Acts, and, by most re-
markable exegetical process, was converted
into an argument In favor Of an aneducated
ministry. But, though his text did little to
establish Jasper's right to preach, his sermon
did much. He had the faults Of negro ora
tory, exaggerated action, painful intensity,
together with sort of gasp as " for breath
to keep so bot a fire burning; but the
absorbed attention of his hearers, together
with a suppressed excitement which It was
difficult not to feel, proved that the speaker
had real power The fire, moreover,
seemed truly kindled from above, the i'm
preston being that Of grea: sincerity and
earnestness.
will attempt to give an account of one
passage which may convey some idea of his
peculiar manner. The passage was de-
scription of Chrisi's coming to this earth to
procure his bride. He began with these
words: "Tbe Lord came to the earth in
the Year One" He then recounted, In won
derfully vivid language, how He sought out
His bride, called her to Himself, separated
Ter from the world, conquered her enemies,
exalted her In honor. At last He has fin
ished the work; clothed her In white /: has
brought her down to the rivers edge, and
has got her coming over. Ascending then to
heaven, He appears before the Father, and
addresses Him In these words: "Father,
I've done been TO earth and died, and now
I've obtained my bride and have got her
coming over" am aware that what am
saying conveys but faint impression of this
remarkable passage Of oratory but that
word got with Its emphasis of joyful sympa-
thy and triumph, rings In my ears to this day,
climax of eloquent feeling which / have
seldom heard equalled.
Long before the sermon was through We
all understood that IL was Jasper who was
speaking. Where another man says l, or
uses the more impersonal we, this man said
Jasper. He was not afraid TO talk good
deal about Jasper, and kept himself con-
stantly on terms with his hearers. Toward
the close, In . scarcely less familiar, though
reversnt way, he had q conversation with
God, as friend with friend. remember his
reminding the Lord that he had not summed
His battles, and that the enemy had some
times smitten him. Whereupon he struck
his breast with sudden emphises and cried
out: "Here Lord, here!" He had turned
no coward's back to the foe.
When the service was over, I chanced upon
citizen of Richmond, almost the only
white man beside myself whom saw at the
service, who told me some things i was In
terested to know about the colored preachers.
In the most of them he had little confidence.
Jasper was the bright exception, a man not
only Of ability, but of genuine piety. Afler-
ward, introduced by this gentleman, had .
conversation with Jasper, At the close OF
which he uttered over me some words of
benediction, spoken with real dignity and
grace, which shall carry with me to the end
In pleasant memory Of remarkable man.
and very superior representative Of HE
race.
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A Thief Disguised as a Noble Lady
Vienna Letter.

Viennd Letter.
A noble lady from Holland landed here
last week with Secretary, maid and col
ored footman, the little set putting up at the
White Horse Hotel, in Leopoldstadt. The
Countess, taking the best suite of apartments,
intimated to the hotelier that she expected
both her father-in-law and her sister-in- law,
who was to be married shortly to an Austrian
noble of the best blood, and the wedding
banquet was to take place in the hotel. She
hired handsome carriage and drove out
every day with her footman on the box by
the side of the coachman. During her drives
she stopped at many shops, ordered samples
aud patterns TO be sent TO her hotel, and at
the same time made purchases of silks, laces,
fine trousseau linen for the bride, etc., never
disbursing single kreutzer, for the colored
footman so thoroughly represented wealth
and inspired confidence that shop-keepers
were only too glad to send to the noble
danes hotel double the stuffs she ordered.
The Countess also called OH several jewell
ers, one of whom had just received hand
some garniture of brilliants, which al once
took her fancy, being valued at the lowest
at $4,000 florins, and the father-in-law being
expected on the following day, the jeweler
was requested to bring the set to the hotel at
a given hour. This was done, aud when the
diamond merchant came he was requestedto
be seated and the Countess took the little
case into the next room, where father-in-law
was dressing she said. After waiting a
quarter of ali hour, Mr.. Jeweler Knocked at
the door and got no answer; tiled the door
and found 1t locked. A noise in the passage
attracts his attention. A rush and he is In
the portier's ioge, where he finds the Count
ess disguised In mans clothes and guarded
by q policeman. Providence had warned
that porter, and he had stopped the Countess
In good time as she was gliding past In her
disguise. He saved the Vienna tradespeople
from the loss Of many thousands, and placed
set of dangerous thieves under the lock of
justice. The tradespeople are very grateful,
and the porter has received their thanks with
many bows and salams. The jeweler, be-
lieve, offered him shilling, but be declined
to take it. t
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POETRY.


Monarchs whose kingdom no man bounds,
No league upholds, no conquest spreads,
Whose thrones are any mossy mounds
Whose crowns are curls on sunny heads!
The only soyereigns on the earth
Whose sway is certain to endure;
No line of kings of kingliest birth
Is of its reigning half so sure.
No fortress built in all the land
So strong they cannot storm Ii free;
No palace made too rich, too grand
For them to roam triumphautly.
No tyrant so hard-hearted known
Can their diplomacy resist;
They can usurp his very throne;
He abdicates when he is kissed,
No hoyel In the world so small,
So meanly built, so squalid, bare,
They will not go within its walls
And set their reign of splendor there.
No beggar too forlorn and poor
To give them all they need to thrive;
They frolic in his yard and door
The happiest kings and queens alive.
o, blessed little kings and queens,
The only sovereIgns on the earth!
Their sovereignty nor rests nor leans
On pomp of riches or of birth.
Nor end when cruel death lays low
In dust each little curly head.
All other soyercigns crownless 60
And are forgotten when they're dead
But these hold changeless empires past,
Triumphant past all earthly scenes.
We worship, truest to the last,
The buried " little kings and queens"
II II. in Hupers for September.
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SILK WORM CULTURE.
A Great Neglected Industry.


Neso York Tribune.
The Woman's Silk Culture Association of
the United States proposes to hold an exhi-
bition Of the silk productions of the country
in Philadelphia this autumn. American silk
and silk goods, from the worm spinning Its
cocoon to the finished heavy gros-grain fab
ric, will be shown, and all art schools are in
vited to send paintings and embroideries to
make the display more attractive.
This undertaking deserves more than
passing notice. If ever any enterprise
earned success through It's indomitable ell
ergy, perseverance and courage this associa-
ton of few women has earned 1t. Their
work itself is based upon sound and prac-
tical policy. The silk manufactures of the
United States average about $4,000, 900 In
value and about $4,000, 900 in raw silk is
imported as material. The aim of the asso-
citation Is, as they state, to enable the thou
sands of needy women and children In our
own land to raise this raw material. For
this purpose they have established schools,
they sell trees, eggs, books of instructions
and act as middlemen to buy cocoons from
small producers and forward them in gross
to the mills at Patterson and Boston; all
this without any pecuniary profit to them
selves. Silk culture has been carried on
more extensively in the United States than
was generally known; but, oddly enough,
both eggs and cocoOns have gone to Mar
seilles to find market at the very time our
own silk manufacturers were importing silk
from France. This was principally owing
to the want Of any machinery for reeling
silk in this country. The mill owners
wanted the reeled silk, not the cocoons. Ap-
peals have been made in vain to the Gov
ernment to establish a filature, But this
Woman's Association proposes now to start
one in Philadelphia. The great difficulty in
the way of this industry will be removed.
They request silk culturists to send tabula-
ted statements of their whole product, in
eggs, cocoons, both pierced and whole, to the
Office Of the association, 1928 Chestnut
street, in order that definite idea may be
obtained of the extent of the business before
the exhibition.
There Is no sudden enormous profit to be
made In silk culture, and nothing in 1t to
tempt men of capital to take it up. 1t
would not pay them if they did. Men to
tend the worms cannot be hired here for ten
cents per day, as in China. But it will pay
women, youths and the otherwise unemploy-
ed members of farmers family to engage
in it, and out Of the vast aggregation Of
their individual labors 1t will, as it has done
in France, prove a magnificent addition to
our national wealth.
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Girls VINO Are Out at Night.
Mem York Herald.


The case of Jennie Cramer, at New Ha-
ven, Is sensational because 1t is not known
up to the pl .sent writing whether she died
from an excessive dose of chloroform admin
istered by knave or whether she committed
suicide In remorse after her fist debauch.
Whatever the tardy investigation may de-
velop, one thing, social, is herein demon
straied., Jennie was very beautiful and the
people with whom she, as the daughter Of .
cigarmaker in moderate circumstances, nat
urally associated were proud of her. She
was somewhat vain, and arsenic assisted her
complexion. People who had more money
than her father had fattered her because
she was beautiful. She bad that freedom
which girls of the middle class In America
too frequently have, and her parents per
mitted her to be abroad II night. Their
idea, though they were Germans, Is the idea
which prevails too extensively in this coun-
try-that girl can take care Of herself. A
girl cannot always take care Of herself, and
where she is left to that idea she may become
conta minated, slightly or cruelty, IS the case
may be. Jennie was out at night.
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THE HAND-PAINTINo CRAZE.
Costly and Artistic Decorations That Meet
With Immediate Demand.
PHILADELPHIA Times.

Philadelphia Times.
Never before was there such rage for in
dustrial art work, particularly in the domain
of painting on porcelain and silk and satin
as seems about TO set in this autumn. Guilt
waited people at the more secluded and select
seaside resorts are reported to have had
hand painting on the brain this summer.
Nearly everything they wore was band
painted, and they wonld as soon have thought
of admitting horrid chrome or engraving
into their cottages As a vase or any other ar
ticle of furniture decorated otherwise than
with the brush. People who have returned
early from Europe report that hand-painted
apparel is the very latest and newest thing
among the " "nobbiest Of the nobs" in both
London and Paris, and that the most " ut
terly utter" fancy of all is for q lady to
paint designs Of her own on her parssol, ,
ribbons, drsperies and so on. Such being
the case, 1t Is easy to see that Philadelphia
will not be far behind In the fashion. Al
ready classes are being formed in various
parts OF the city, and the schools where
these branches are taught expect to be
crowded with learners. Ali the stores where
materials are sold for this kind of work are
beginning TO get orders earlier than usual.
Mrs. Vincent Taylor, whose studio is at
1924 Walnut street, says the tendency of de-
signs this season will be toward the quaint
and whimsical. An owl on a branch or a
wrecked hull with croaking frog in sight
and the moon overhead will be one. The
Castle of Chillon, telling the story of BY
ron's poem, will be a popular one. The fig
ures painted on dress goods will be mainly
flowers, birds and insects.
"This is a sample of French organdie
with painted clusters Of moss roses, you see,"
she said, "and l am about painting some
gladiolus and other flowers for Mr.. Wana-
maker on some of the new moire antique
silk stripes which he has imported from
Europe, and which are to be all the rage.
The goods will be sold by The yard, but, Of
course, can only be purchased by the wealthy,
and the dresses, when made up, will be
hand painted all over"
Gentlemen's neckties are to be painted
this season. A great feature in household
decoration will be the introduction of the
"potpouri aromatique," or old fashioned
"sweet jars filled with rose leaves.
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A Prohibitionist on HIS Travels.
Detroit Free Press.

Among the thirsty ones yesterday hunting
up and down Woodward avenue for some
thing to quehch thirst was man In rusty
black, who entered drug store and softly
inquired:
.Have you temperance drink"
"Two or three OF 'em. Will you take
soda water or ginger ale ?''
swell, now, our society does not regard
either Of those as q strictly temperance
drink. Both are associated with stronger
liquors"
aHow would root beer answer ?r
" "Suspicious-susplciou was the whisp-
cred reply.
"Ahp
al can give you straight temperance
drink, IS cool as Ice; but IL comes high"
"How much ?''
"Ten cents Q glass;"
"very well" said the old man as he put
down his dime.
The druggist was absent only minute,
and then returned and placed . glass OF
liquid before him. The old man drank hall
Of Il, smacked his lips, and asked:
I" May ask what you call p"
" Certainly; it Is called water. ! jast
drew Il from the hydrant.r
The excnrsionisE sst Ehe glass iown much
harder than he neea ~. bnttened his coat,
and with glance usnl ID reduce the drug.
gist's weight to 40 pu5s.ids Er ave seconds,
went out - stiff sssxseaas- pole and crossed
the street after Alemonada favored with
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~Talmudic legend.
THE NEW COMET.
Visible TO the Naked Eye and Rapidly Increasing
in B,iilisncy-Its Dimensions.
Boston Ddiip ddyerfiser.

Boston Daily Advertiser.
The new comet Is looming up handsomely
to the astronomers eye, and indeed is visible
to all but the near-sighted In the morning
hours before twilight by the unassisted power
of vision. About the middle Of the week 1t
will be discernable In the evening after twi-
light near to the horizon, at point some
what north of northwest. At present the
direction for finding 1t In the morning is to
carry a line from the star Capella through
Beta AurIga, which is bright star eight or
ten degrees lower and to the right. BY ex-
tending this line further distance, equal 10
the apparent distance from star TO star, the
position of the comet Is reached. IL is now
rapidly increasing In brightness. Its dis
tance from the earth Is about 97,0O0,O0O
miles. The diameter of the bright part sur
rounding the nucleus Ii 11,700 miles that
Of the bright coma, 100000 miles; total d.
ameter Of the envelope, 100000 miles ;
length Of tail, 100000 miles or more. The
deyiations of the orbit from the predictions
mp to August I'd, were 3m. SOS. In right as-
cension, and l.9m. i'm destination. These re-
suits are satisfactory, considering the unfav-
orabIe position, or rather direction, Of the
comets motion when the three earliest OBJ
servations were taken. That direction was
slmost towards the earth. Had the direc-
tion or apparent motion been, 20 to speak,
athwart the sky, more accurate predictions
would have been possible. The develop
ment Of the tail before peribeiion u In this
comet greater than that Of the great comet
OF 1853. On last Thursday night the comet
for the first time kept above the horizon al
night, or technicalls speaking, entered the
circle Of perpetual spparition.