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the most drcary and iuhospitable on
the continent. The nights at these
high levels are always bitter cold, and
tie air is SO thin that bullOcks brought
up to the Plateaus 0 die. apparently
Of consumption. The land produces
only potatoes, tiny, hard as bullets, and
bitter as quiuine. These can only be
eaten after the bitterness has been
roasted out of them. The houses are
built as regular ~fortresses against the
weather. They only have a couple of
small loop holes for ventilation, and
the stencn at night, when the doors are
closed, and the oily reek Of the wool
overhead pervades and mingles with
that Of uuwashed humanity, is simply
abomiHable. The Alpaca farmer is a
creature Of the earth, ignorant and
supeJstitIOus, but he is a mild-natured
fellow, and is nOmiually a christian.
His life is a miserable one, but he
alone is fitted to live it.. 1t Is as i'm
possible for a deniZen of the coast
country or d European to exist among
the mountains, as it has been found to
acciimatize the Alpaca in civilized
countries. In my ride across from
Lima into Bolivia, | suffered almost as
great Inconvenience and miseries in
breathing and in rushes Of blood to my
head, as | experienced a year ago in a
descent into the compressed air inside
tie lock Of the Hudson river tunnel.
About the only thing that will stir
an Alpaca farmer up to rage is the
wanton killing of one of his sheep.
Travellers sometimes make free with
their ~reyolvers among the hoeks, and
several murders have occurred in con
sequence. In every case the murderer
wa an Alpaca farmer, who thus
avenged himself for the injury done his
property.
Unlike the Llama, the Alpaca cannot
be used as a bearer of burdens. II
makes its only concession to man when
it permits him to deprive it of its fleece.
The Llama produces a fleece also. but
it Is coarser and less beautiful than the
Alpaca's, besides being different in tex
ture, OF late years Alpaca wool has
been considerably adulterated with that
Of the Llama, but this is the work of
the traders, The sharp practices Of
our acute modern business systems have
not yet infected the simple denizen of
the mountains. As civilization is rap
idly invading even the Andes, it will
not be safe to calculate too far on the
Alpaca farmer remaining innocent of
the tricks of trade
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-02-16
PENIS GROVE, \. j, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY IS, 1884.

Their away again, elf you do not care
anything about my Waiting with Miss
Downs, lHeed not deprive myself of the
pleasure. She is a suoerb walter"
''She ought to be. | am sure that
she is light-headed enough"
1T is not necessary for a pretty,
attractive girl to be either a scientist or
philosopher"
Certainly not. Mr.. Niles has invi-
ted me to ride with him again to-mor-
rev. He has some splendid new
ponies.''
"Hang Nj. Niles"
"a little while ago you proposed to
hang Miss Downs. But you, never
will begin to write. Have you not
mended your pencil yet2"
Yes, and | think that we have quar-
relied long enough. 1t is time for the
reconciliation now"
Eyes, l agree with you.p
"Then let us rehearse it. Lovers
always take each others hands, y L said,
making a melton to that effect.
ut is not necessary to rehearse it., "
she replied utterly ignoring my intend
ed demonstration.
"But we can describe the scene with
far more feryOr after practicing a little. y
ut IS not necessary or proper" she
replied, with an air of extreme irmness
and rigidity.
Indeed, l persisted, sit is proper
and even laudable, if you will only look
at it from an esthetic point of view"
Il am not esthetic."
yes, you are. And you know
lovers are not satisfied with merely
holding each others hands; they en-
brace and kiss" she gave me a very
severe glance, but l continued with I'M
daunted courage. 81 think that we
had better rebearse the whole thing ~
81 think that you are very impu
dent" she said, with her face TUNED
away from me.
Il do not mean to be-, | replied. 81
think we should consider this as a liter
AIRY matter altogether and not regard
our own feelings at ALL"
Yes, she said, ''but we are not act.
ing, We are only writing a play; and
even in acting, amateurs only do those
things III a shadOWy sort of way"
GLOW do you mean?" | asked with
great Interest and animation.
Il mean the lover only put his arm
behind the lady, without touching her
at all and kisses the air instead of her
lips"
VERY shadowy," l remarked, "and
very unsatisfactory also. How great a
distance do you demand-a quarter of
an inch?''
NO, indeed, fully six inches" she
answered with the utmost gravity.
LET US try it," l said with a gravity
equal to her own, as | put my arm be-
hind her on the back eff the sofa. Then
l made elaborate and praiseworthy
preparations to kiss the air, but her
eyes looked so gentle and so sweet and
her red lips SO tempting that instead of
the air kissed her.
'sMr. Vermont" she exclaimed, spring.
ing up Indignantly, with eyes looking
anything but gentle now.
Cob, Nelly" l cried, don't YOU
know that l love you dearly, dearly?
Tell me you are not angry, my darling
= could not help it, to save my life"
She was not very much offended,
after all, and we did not talk any more
about the play during that sitting,
which was a pretty long one; but We
are to be married next week, and Nelly
says that after l get over being silly we
will write a play in good earnest.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-02-16

About a mile from the City Hall,
Baltimore, on Greenmount avenue, is a
queer establishment in which a singular
industry is carried on. 1t is known as
"Sunnyside Apiary'-the home of the
Aeuey.tee-and is devoted more especi-
ally to the rearing Of queen bees.
~Sunnyside Apiary was established III
1858, and has been successfully con-
Quoted ever since. 1t was here that
the first foreign bees ever introduced
into this country were received, and
the first attempt at queen rearing and
the Inflammation Of the native bee was
made.
At this establishment are many
curiosities Of interest to the visitor,
noticeable among which is a hive pre-
scented by King Otto, of Greese, another
from Poland, an extractor from Switzer-
land, the ''casket" in which the first
Italian bees reached the American
shores, every conceivable style Of hives,
and all sorts of bee keepers ''ixings."
Mr.. Robert Oliver is the present pro-
prietor, and the manager is Mr.. Lake,
who has spent thirty-two years of his
life in the study of bees, and is
thoroughly posted on this most compli-
Gated branch Of natural history. On
the occasion Of a recent visit to the
apiary, Mr.. Lake kindly gave a reporter
some very curious and interesting facts
relative to these remarkable insects.
Mr.. Lake, in the course of his
Investigations, has made some very
interesting scientific discoveries relative
to queen bees and what are termed
'laying workers." He states that
queen rearing is very uncertain and is
made more so from the fact that the
queens mate high up in the air. She is
Improperly called a queen, because she
has no other office to perform than the
laying Of eggs in the cells, and is
simply the mother Of the swarm, at
least Of all the working population of
the hive. This brings up a wonderful
fact in reference to the physiology Of
the queen. by depriying her Of her
wings, 80 that she cannot mate, it is
a~scertaiued that the eggs she ever
afterwards DEPOSITS will produce
drones or male bees only, while on the
other hand, if she is allowed to fly and
mate, then she can produce both
workers and males. The workers are
uudeveloped females; the queen is a
developed female. An egg deposited
in a workers cell will produce a worker
bee if the queen has been formulated,
but the same cell would produce a
droue if the egg was deposited by an
unfertle queen. To produce a queen
the bees change the cell to a perpen-
dicular position and feed the larya on
the prepared 'royal jelly" which
developes the sex, and the sting, mouth,
wings, legs, size form and habits are all
changed by tins remarkable process.
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Chinese and Siamese.

A sojourner in China writes: l adj
init that, as l have before said, the
ChInaman has his vices. One of them,
and perhaps the principal. one, is his
propensity for gambling. He will play
for money at any moment, out Of work
and whatever may be the consequence.
You have seen him toiling in the hot
Siamese sun with bags of rice on his
back or great pieces Of teak on his
shoulders. Were you to follow him at
night you would almost certainly find
him, after the evening bath and sup
per, moving in the direction of a gam
bling house. The bamboo-built room,
a spacious one, is full of people, all Of
whom are squatted on the floor in front
of little mats, playing for all they pos
sess. Almost every man is of Chinese
birth. There are some woman, but
these are generally Siamese, and Of
them L have something to say later on.
The game they all play is a very simple
one. A pile of cowrie shells is placed
by the side of a cloth on which are
marked in four squares the figures l, 2,
3 and 4. A cup and a long thin stick
complete the gambling apparatus. The
people who attend playing stake their
money on one or other of the squares,
just as at Monte Carlo the gamblers
place their napoleons ON the cloth. The
croupier or representative of the keeper
of the establishment then lifts the cup,
puts it ON the pile of cowrie shells, and
draws away from underneath ii as many
as he can, Lifting the cup off these
thus s%ubtracted he proceeds to count
them with the long stick, for the play
ers will not allow HIM to touch the
shells with his fingers. lie pushes the
shells away four at a time. If when
he comes to the last lot, one shell is left
only, those who staked on the figure l
get twice their stake and the money
they hazarded besides; SO will the 2 and
the 8. OF course, if the shells divide
equally into four, those who lnzarded
on the 4 win. That is the whole of the
business, and on that game the China
man will risk all he is possessed of, no
matter how hard he has to work for it.
The Siamese will do more than that
lie will actually play away his house,
children, and even himself, going into
slavery willingly rather than miss the
excitement o The game. But [ am
dealing more u .icularly with China
men low, an viii speak of the Siam
ese later ch 4 for the Chinaman
away from tl9 gambling-house, | find
him a model of what a man should be;
a good husband, thrifty, careful, a cap
ital father, generally bathing and feed
ing as Fell IS providing for his children,
leaving to his Siamese wife the task of
correctiIg 5lem-a duty which she I'M
dertakes 1 am bound to say, in a spirit
that woIId have pleased Solomon, that
royal advocate of the birch, to the very
utmost. Indeed, the Quilting of her
offspring seems to be nearly the whole
duty of the Siamese wife of a China
man. Married to a Siamese she would
probably have to work; but as the
spouse of a Celestial her days go easily
by, and all she has to do is to look for a
hard piece of bamboo wherewith to
chide L4r unruly children. And that
she usually selects a very heavy and a
very hard piece is a fact which forms a
pretty fair index to her character.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-02-16

jay Gould is safely guarded from in
truders and can only be reached by card
or message. A reporter called at his
barricaded quarters yesterday aud sent
in his card, with an intimation that he
wished to ask the following among other
questions:
How much are you worth?
How is 1t invested?
What is your income2
How much does it cost you to live?
After waiting patiently for over a
quarter of au hour a messenger returned
from an inner room, on the door of
which is printed: "Jay Gould, Private"
and returned the message to the re-
porter, much %crumpled, and bearing
evidence of having been copied, with
the significant words:
''Nr. Gould is not in"
"When will ne be iu?" was asked.
81 cannot say" was the quick re-
pon ''probably not to-day"
AT the time there stood beside the
Reporter an intellectual looking gentle
man. whose card when sent in was in
scribed, 'Dr. Corey" He looked up
wonde1ingly as the messenger announced
that the great railroad magnate was
''not in, and asked:
els this an answer to me alsop"
'Oh. no." said the messenger, very
much confused; "Mr. Gould will see
you, DR., Corey, but he is not IN to the
other gentleman.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-02-16

CELERY bold in a little milk favored
with salt and thickened with q little
flour makes an excellent auc for
boiled mutton.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-02-16
GOODBYE OR HowDY-DO.

Say goodbye or howdy-do-
What's the odds betwixt the two"
Comin'-goin'-eyery day
Best friends first to go away
Grasp Of hands you'd ruther hold
Than their weight In solid gold,
Slips their grasp while greetin' yon,-
Say goodbye or howdy-do?
Howdy-do, and then goodbye
Mixes Jest, laugh and cry;
Deaths and births, and worst and best,
Tangled their c~ontrariest
Ev'ry jinglin' weddin' bell
Skeerin' up some funeral knell--
Here's my song and there's your sigh
Howdy-do, and then good-byel
Say goodbye or howdy-do-
Jest the same to me and you
faint worth while to make no fuss,
Cause the jobs put up on usl
Someone's Iunnin' this concern
That's got nothin' else to learn
If he's willin' we'll pull through.
Say goodbye or howdy-do?
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-02-16

How TO GREASE A WHEEL.-A well
made wheel will endure constant wear
from ten to twenty-five years, If care
is taken to use the right kind an proper
amount of grease; but if this matter is
not attended to it will be used up in five
or six years. Lard should level be
used on a wagon, for it will penetrate
the hub. and work its way u around
the tenor of the spokes. and will spoil
the wheel. Tallow is the best lubrl,
Gator for wooden axle-trees, and castor
oil for iron hubs, but many of the
patent axle greases are also excellent,
and have the merit Of being cheaper
and more convenient to handle. just
grease enough should be applied to the
spindle of a wagon to give it a slight
coating. This is better than more, for
the surplus put on will work out at the
ends and be forced by the shoulder
bands and nut-washers into the hub
around the outside of the boxes. 10
oil an iron axletIee frat wipe the spindle
clean with a cloth wet with spirits Of
turpintine, and then apply q few drops
of castor oil mean the shoulder and end.
One %teaspoonful is sufficient for the
whole.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-02-16

A NEWLY married Texan man shot
his bride while she was mixing her first
batch of biscuits. His plea in court
will probably be self-defence.
In her "Poems of Passion" Ella
Wheeler writes: "She touches my
cheek, and / quiver." 1t is very evil
dent Ella does not write the words Of a
Chicago man or a commerclal traveller.
"THosE picture cards / brought back
from Boston," remarked Mrs. Parting
ton, in a pensive mood. They are
momentums Of the art loan imposition. "
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-02-16
Improved washing Machine.

An improved washing machine has
been patented by an Armstrong, Mo-,
man. The object Of the invention is to
produce such a combination Of parts
as will facilitate the application Of
rubbing devices to an ordinary wash
tnb. There is a false bottom, below
which the dirty water collects, and
the false bottom being provided with
radial ribs, the clothes to be washed are
spread on the false bottom, and a disk
is rocked to and fro owe them
in a horizontal plane by means of
a suitable handle. The machine can be
readily adapted to or easily removed
from any tub.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-02-16

The Claim Is made for Cleveland,
Ohio, that it showsa lower proportional
death list for 1888 than any other city
in the Union,
Absence diminishes the ordinary
passions and increases the great ones,
as the wind e~xtinguishes the candle and
lights.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-02-16

PROBABLY more thar half of all the
weeds are first brought to our farms in
grass seed. Suppose we were given q
bushel of clover or timothy seed con
tanning only twenty seeds Of ripple or
wild carrot or daisy; how much better
to burn it than to sow and go yer the
fields time after time to pull out the
weeds? 1t would cost more than ten
times the price OF the seed to get the
last OF these plants out. 1t is far better
to refuse entire.y those seeds with ''only
a few weed seeds, aud to pay a round
price for those entirely free from them;
and then on seeding down land we
should SOW plenty of seed. so as to have
the surface fully occupied with the de
sired crop,
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Going into Politics.

We hear it asserted on every side
that il will only be short time I'M
til the Brothers of Freedom will have
their own officers elected. 1t has al
ways been our understanding that
politics should not even be mention
ed in the lodge, and we thought GER
tainlv the farmers had had enough
experience in politics not to he led
into them by any horde of Office seek
ers. 1t may be all well and good for
the B. of +. to put out ticket and
elect all the county officers from con.
stable up, but we cannot see how it
will advance the interests Of the Or
der one iota. Will our laws be en-
forced any better? Will the taxes be
any lighter? or will anything be
done any better than it has been
done? We ask these questions can
didly, and we want candid answer
from every reader Study them
over and don't let prejudice get the
better Of your judgment. "We want"
says an objector 'these fine haired
fellows out of Office and farmers in
their place" If you do, why don't
you vote for farmers? Since we can
remember farmers have run for Of
flee, and they invariably get beat.
If you want farmer to fill an office,
vote for one, but do let the B..
of f. stay out Of politics. Ii we bad
the remotest idea that it would be to
the interest and advancement of the
order to elect officers on B. OF +.
ticket we would be supporter, yes,
an advocate, OF the move, but we
think such a move will certainly
prove detrimental to its best inter
ests. 1t would very likely split the
organization, and they might fail to
elect their ticket, and If they did
carry, what possible good could come
from it? From the legislature is
where the farmers relief will have to
come from, and there could not pos
sibly DC more than five or six b. of
f. mentors in 1T and they could not
do anything LET'S wait about poll
tics until the order can carry the
state, and is so firmly cemented to-
gether that no political jars can sep
arate us. In such matters, let us
make haste slowly and surely.
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BY the Wayside.

Mr.. EDITOR. If you will allow me
space in the DEMOCRAT, ! will give
you few items concerning the
Brothers Of Freedom.
The order known in this county as
b. OF +. is in a prosperous condition,
and is growing rapidly, and is one
oi the best organizations for the
farmer known. 1t began about one
year ago in the west, and is spread
ing rapidly, and it will continue to
grow II kept strictly for the purpos
es the founders Of it intended. |
will not attempt to discuss the Oh
jects and intentions OF the order here
but will say that the order in this
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1884-03-20

To Parents and Friends Of RusscllviIle
School.
The present term of free school closes
upon Friday next. A public examine
tion Of each grade will be had upon
Thursday aud Friday. In behalf Of the
teachers who have labored in all con-
science; In behalf Of tile pupils who
have remained true to the school, in
behalf Of education, both general and
special may not urge a generous, out
spoken attendance upon this examine
ton? The assigned work has been COM
pleted in every grade, and it only re-
mains to see how we'll it has been done.
Teachers are confident,a and 1t is thought
that splendid showing will be made.
Cannot every one find time TO listen, to
question and to aid? DR.. Hill, Mr..
Brashears, Mr.. Wooten, J. f. Munday
and j. E. Battenfield are earnestly re-
quested by the faculty to act as Board
of visitors, and to unite with the Prin-
cipal aud the Board of Education in
determining the status of each pupil
and the necessary promotions.
Very Truly Yours,
JOSIAH FL. SHINN,
PRINCIPAL
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county numbers about fifteen hun,
bred, and II Is recognized by all to
be one Of The orders 1T the day. II
has been So far recognized, that mer-
chants have taken hold OF it and
made contracts with the b. Of +. to
sell them goods at a stipulated per
cent. profit, and others are looking
10 the order to reform tue credit and
mortgage system and bring about
that long wished for cash system, or
cash transactions. As / understand
the objects OF the order it is to pro-
mote the interests oil the laboring
class OF men, and make their condi-
ton better in life and financially.
AS / understand 1t the order is not
political. Neither indeed can 1t be,
for the order is composed Of both pc
litical parties, and therefore politics
should not be mentioned IN the Or
der. II it is to be political why ex
clude tspe lawyer, banker, and mer
chant? Now let the b. OF F. adopt
that part OF the proceedings Of the
grant council which ignored party
politics in the order The grand
council ignored politics and we
should do the same. We should
leave every b. Of f. free to exercise
the right 10 vote as he thinks, and
for the man that he wants to ill the
office. If the B. of F. should organ
ize the order into political party,
and call convention, make nomina-
tons for all the offices in the county,
just that certain the order would
crumble to pieces, go to nothing and
be broke up forever, and then we
would he in worse condition than
when we went into the order.
Now, b. OF f., let us act like the
grand council, keep politics out Of
our order, and let us work to main
tain it, and keep it up, for ! assure
you that politics will take care of
themselves.
A BROTHER OF FREEDOM.
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Texas Topics.

l see in the last issue Of the DEM
ocRAT the announcement Of the
death Of Mrs. Sallie McCracken.
Having lived near neighbor to her
/ can truly say that a good woman
and kind neighbor has gone. Am
sorry to hear Of the death Of SO
many friends and neighbors. When
l hear Of SO many deaths | think
that country must he getting more
sickly than it used TO be. live in a
more thickly settled country than
that, and we have had but one death
from a natural cause and that was a
small child, and | have been living
here nearly three years. We have
healthy country here on the prairie
but some sickness on the water
courses and in the brush.
see great deal said about the
B. of F. in your paper. Well, it may
be good thing in its way, but |
think they had better organize
oranges all over the county and or
ganize co operative stores and buy
and sell their own goods for cash. |
say this because we have little eX-
perience in the business. A few
farmers here organized co-opera
tive store three years ago with n
capital stock Of only $3.50. Now it
is worth over $4,000. We buy and
sell for cash exclusively. We have
oranges and grange stores all over
the county, with Wholesale and re-
tail house in the city of Dallas doing
a fine business.
l am glad TO see that our old friend
II. Clabe Howell Is able to stir out,
and hope he will soon regain his
health
Mr. Alex nj. HARRISON an old
Pope county man lives near me; he
and family are we'll. Also Dir. Hugh
HARRISON lives here, but in very
poor health. | think he cannot last
long.
Ed Wooten, brother to W.P.Woot-
Ell Of Russcllville is here and well
pleased with the country.
c. L. BREWTON
Duck Creek, Texas.