Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-08

1t was the hope of all who desired the good
of the country that these two should marry,
snd thus form a united Government but it
did not seem Ptobable that this would ever
happen. The cousins were of very different
dispositions, and although they had not yet
quarreled, or violently opposed each other,
there was no sympathy between them,
aud one Sc dom approved of what the other
did.
Chamiau WAS bold, active and athletic
fellow, and delighted in field sports and all
sorts of outdoor lie. while Millice was OF an
intellectual turn of mind, and devoted to
the study of art and science. During the
time that these two had governed no ques-
tions of public Importance had arisen, but
it was feared that If it should be necessary
for the Government TO take any decided ac-
tion ii would be difficult to make the cousins
agree upon any course. If tine two should
marry there would probably be no further
cause for anxiety, for the Queen would
naturally de!er 10 the King, and all would
20 on smoothly, but, as mas been said before
Of this happy issue there was no reason to
hope.
But there was one man in Tanobar who
did not desire the cousins TO marry; who did
not desire the Government to 90 on
smoothly, and whose earnest purpose was to
effect a general revolution in public affairs
in order that he might reconstruct them to
suit his own plans. This man was named
GromIine, and be was the Minister of Agri-
culture. He was a man OF great ability and
very much given TO stirring up political
dissensions, and the principal reason for
making him Minister CT Agriculture had
been that it was thought that in that depart
ment he could do no mischie;. But since
he had occupied this position he had come
very near inflicting upon the country what
most sensible people thought would be q
terrible injury.
He had discovered a plant, which, after
years of experiment and culture he had
now brought 10 what he considered perfec-
tiOn. This plant he named the Cosmic Bean,
for the reason that il was capable of taking
the place OF all other food, and becoming
the universal nutriment of mankind.
Cooked in certain WAYS it tasted like meats
and afforded the same nourishment Pre-
pared in other methods, it resembIed differ
ent kinds of vegetables, bread, and even
cheese and butter. 1t could be dried in vari-
Gus ways, and so used to make drinks re-
senbling tea, coffee, and chocolate and its
juices when fermented produced several
sorts of wine and spirits. In fact there was
no article of common food, of which an ex-
cellent substitute could not be produced
from the CoSmic Bean.
A most important property of this plant
WAS that it would grow In anv soil, with
little or no cultivation, and that it was an
evergreen, and produced its fruits in great
abundance ali the year around. Gromlne's
experiments and exhibitions had satisfied
the Government that his bean would do
everything that he claimed for it, and that
II might, indeed, take the place of all other
food.
But from the wise people of the country,
Gromline's efforts to introduce his bean had
met with the most decided opposition. 1t
had not been brought to perfection during
the lives Of the twin kings, but they had
both declared that should GromIine ever
succeed in his efforts the plant ought to be
Immediately eradicated from the face of the
earth. Their wives, the queens regent, were
OF the same opinion, and when the Cosmic
Beau was ready for cultivation and intro
ductlon, had forbidden Gromlne or anybody
else TO grow IT, and had ordered the de-
struction OF all plants, wherever lound.
The reasons urged against the production
of the new food were very good ones, 1!
this were plant capable of giving people,
old and young, all the different sorts OF
nutriment they needed or cared for, and
which would grow everywhere without trou-
BILE to anybody and WELD fruit in abundance
at all seasons, it was quite certain that a
great part OF the people of the country
would be content to let nature provide for
them and to cease to provide for themselves
This state of affairs, as the officers of the
Government plainly saw, would som turn
everything upside down; the upper classes
would soon cease to be upper if the lowe
classes ceased. to work for them, and so this