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SEPTEMBE X,

She comes with a halo floating round her,
Fair as a cloistered saint of old.
In courtly stuffS have her handmaids gowned
Royal purple and cloth of gold.
Her lips are sweet with the honeyed sweet
ness
That turks in the heart of q luscious pear,
When the bee discovers its ripe complete
ness,
And sips unstinted the nectar rare.
The queen OF the meadow bends to meet her.
Wearing a smile on her royal face.
The cardinal-f1ower, in haste to greet her,
Lowers his colors with loyal grace.
She owns their homage with glances tender,
And blossoms CLEAN where her foot has
trod,
While the mellow haze which the sunbeams
lend her,
She drops on the swaying golden-rod.
With lissome measure her footstep wrinkles
Buoyantly over each bosky dell:
With countless aSterS the mead she sprin-
And tints with crimson the fox gloves bell.
She twines a leaf in her floating tresses,
And the last bright garland which summer
blesses,
She binds in a coronal on her brow.
But q speedy summons the west winds watt
Bidding her haste on her destined way,
And only the sound OF their mocking laugh
ter
Tells of her brief. triumphal sway.
Gems OF crystal and beads of amber
Glow with the fire of her parting beams;
And ere we know her, the Sweet September
Fades like the visions we see in dreams.
Helm Whitney CLARK. IN Fraak Lsnis'a
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honor of it, and if you are Russian you
will invariably cross yourself on coming
into its presence.
The baby of our consul general at st.
Petersburg fell sick during my stay there
few weeks ago. and its nurse said that the
undoubted cause of its illness was because
there was no icon picture in the room in
which it was lying and she would not con-
tinue to wait upon the child until one was
put up. In every railroad station in Russia
there is a shrine of this kind, and you can
not get out of sight of a picture of one Of
the saints, of the Virgin or of the Savior.
There are stores here in Moscow which sell
nothing but icons and the painting of them
gives work to thousands In making them
the workmen get prices according to the
size of the saints and their number. A
good man can make three, each containing
one figure, in a week, and as he gets 80
cents saint he makes 81 80 at this rate for
a weeks work. Some of the icons are very
well painted, and those in the churches are
often studded with jewels and the metal
work is OF solid gold. Some icons are holier
than others, and the most sacred are kissed
BY the worshipers and candles burn con-
stantly before them.
The Candle Business in Russia
Speaking OF candles, Russia burns more to
her population than any other country in
Europe. She uses about so, 900, 900 pounds
of candles every year, and one of the great
sources of income of the churches is their
candle sales. At the door of every great
cathedral there are candle peddlers, who
have counters before them and who sell
candles TO the worshipers as fast as they
can hand them out These men are dressed
in the uniform of the church, and they take
in pennies by the bushel. 1 watched
couple of them for a long time at the
entrance of the Kazan Cathedral in St.
Petersburg, and in the course of half an
hour 1 saw at least 800 men, women and
children buy candles 1t took two men to
supply them, and the candles they bought
were of various sizes and of different prices.
Some bought as many as dozen and others
were satisfied with one.
l wondered what they would do with
them and walked in behind them The in
terror OF this church is as large as the hall
of the House of Congress Its halls were
hung with golden icons and there were jew
eled icons on the pillars and set into the
solid silver altar at the back of the church.
Before each icon there was a silver candle
stick with stem as big around as Grover
Cleveland's thigh, and rising from the floor
to about the height of the spot on which
President Harrison's hat rests. The tops of
these candlesticks were in the shape of
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-18
History of the Great Explorer and How He Found America
ESPECIALLY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
WRITTEN THE DISPATCH
BY L. H. WEEKS AND PAUL LATZKE.
1Copydghed by the Authors.l
OR THE DISPATCH

that little to the south he should find the
famous country told of by Marco Polo,
where the King lived in a gorgeous palace
covered with plates of gold and was served
out of vessels of solid gold. On the 14th Of
October he rowed about San Salvador in q
boat, and finding the island unimportant,
he set sail the same evening, carrying with
him seven natives to learn the Spanish Lam
guage and act as interpreters. He found
the islands that are now called Coneepcian
and Exuma and others OF lesser Importance,
but nowhere did he discover the lOnged-for
gold. The appearance of the natives pleased
him more and more and he continued to
make them presents and to treat them
kindly so as to win their confidence In this
way the explorers got fruit and fresh food,
and an abundance of fresh water and gained
much information about the islands among
which they were cruising They were de-
lighted with all that they saw, and Colum-
bus wrote in his journal:
The groves are marvellous, and everything
is green as in April in Audalusia. The sing
ing of birds is such that it seems as If one
would never desire 70 depart hence. There
are Hooks OF parrots that obscure the sun,
and other birds large and small, of so
many kinds different from ours that it is
wonderful; and, besides, there are trees of -
thousand species, each having its particular
fruit, and ali of marvellous flavor. He also
added that as he came to one particular
island "there came thence fragrance so
good and soft of the flowers or trees of the
land that it was the sweetest thing in the
word
But all this, delightful as it was, brought
them no nearer to their desires. They now
heard of Colba and Bohio wonderful is
lands, full OF gold and spices, and Co.
lumbus was sure that in this direction he
should find the mainland of India, the
wonderful city of Quinsai, or ''The City Of
Heaven" as the name signiied, and the
Great Khan in his splendid place further
on in the Province of Cathay. Deluded with
these expectations, he set sail October "a and
heading west southwest, he came in sight Of
Colba, the Cuba of to-day, on the morning
of October 2a The appearance of this
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one chair, while just opposite him sat a
lady who was holding out her arm, from
which stream of blood was spouting and
upon which another barber was performing
the operation of blood letting. In another
part of the picture on a stool was man
having tooth pulled, and the sign intended
to conve ythe fact that the barber was a
dentist, shaver and surgeon. A feed
store will have bundle of hay in door
way and on the walls at the side of the door
will be painted horses feeding and COWS
grazing.
The dairy signs are cows with maids or
men milking them and the tea signs are
usually gaudy Cinnamon, who are slipping
tea.
Even the newest inventions, such as the
typewriter, the bicycle and the camera, are
painted on the signboards in this way and
sometimes the whole front of a store will be
covered by pictures, each of which repre-
sents some article sold BY the merchant.
The windows are filled with samples of the
goods sold and not infrequentlv articles are
suspended on the walls outside in order to
show just what is offered within. Every
merchant makes his calculations with box
of wooden buttons strung on wires, Just as
the merchants do in China, and only the
larger establishments keep book accounts.
Little business is cone by checks.
FRANK G. CARPENTER
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Making silk Waterproof.

A ready method of rendering silk water
proof is to coat it with quick-drying linseed
oil; but more effective process owes its eff
fcacy to the formation of an insoluble
stearate OF aluminium in the material. This
is accomplished by passing the silk success
sively through bath OF aluminium sui
phate of soap and water, then drying and
calendering. For the first bath commercial
alum cake dissolved IN ten times its weight
OF water is used. The soap bath is pre-
pared by dissolving ordinary yellow soap
in 80 times its weight of water, and this
bath should be kept hot while the goods are
passing through it. The three vessels
should be kept alongside of each other, and
special care should be taken to have the
fabric thoroughly soaked in the first bath.
For materials OF white or light color white
soap should be nsed in the preparation OF
the soap solution.
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The FUMIGATI0H PROBLEM,

One of Its Worst Phases Can Be Studied In
Western Pennsylvania.
zone who desires to study the vital phase
of the immigration problem should go to
the anthracite fields of Pennsylvania
There he will find one of the richest regions
of the earth overrun with horde of Hun
garians, Slavs, Polanders, Bohemians, Arabs,
Italians, Sicilians, Russians and Tyrolese
of the lowest class; q section almost dena-
tionaliZed by the scum of the Continent,
where women hesitate to drive about the
country roads by day, where unarmed men
are not safe after the sinking of the sum-"
says Henry Rood in the September Forum
There he will see prosperous little cities
like Hazleton, Mahauoy, Ashland, Shenan-
doah, with fine business houses and edu-
Gated people of fortune, and surround
ing these towns great wastes of
the Commonwealth diseased by thou
sands and tens of thousands of
foreigners who have no desire to become
Americans, who immigrate to the United
States for few years to make money, who
have driven to the cities and to the West
the great army of English, Scotch, Irish,
Welsh, Germans and Americans who once
gave stability to the coal regions; in short,
condition of affairs which, if equaled
elsewhere, may become more than a
national problems national peril They
leave their families abroad and send to them
sums of money that seem enormous when
the fact is considered that they belong to
the laboring class.
'gThe little city of Hazleton is said to send
each month to Southern Europe from
S75, 600 to S125, 900. Such immigrants, as q
rule, make no attempt to become Americans.
They care naught for our country, but as a
place where they can accumulate enough
money to make them independent when
they return home.
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which are finer than those of any other part
of the world.
The merchants as rule are Russians in
long coats with their pantaloons stuffed in
their boots and their hair chopped off level
with the neck so that it forms q sort OF q
brush as it hangs down from the crown.
They part this hair in the middle and they
are usually long men of the Rus
rian type. They are shrewd dealers, but
are very suspicious of one another and 20
on the principle that everything is fair in
trade Some of them grow very wealthy
and some of ths finest houses in Moscow
belong to the merchants. The mobiles
looked rather down on them until in recent
years and to-day the merchant class Is not
as high as the official class in Russia They
are very superstitlous ana believe in signs
and omens.
The Merchants Take Life Easy.
Their hours of business are from about
in the morning until about in the after
noon. and though. they are as anxious to
make q good trade as our merchants, they
take more rest than we do and they will not
open their stores during the holidays nor
on Sundays Everything is closed in Russia
on Sunday, and st. Petersburg and Moscow
at this time look much more like Boston
than Paris. 1t is interesting to watch one
of these bazaar merchants close up for the
night. In the first place he locks up every
thing in the store and seals it shut. He
then comes outside and closes his windows
and locks the front door of his shop with
great paddock. He then takes string and
ties the paddock to the staple and joins the
two ends of the string together and puts
some hot sealing wax on them. This he
stamps with his own seal, 50 that 1t will be
impossible to open the lock without break
ing the seal. He then stands in front of his
closed doors and crosses himself and says
prayer before he leaves for the night, and
he viii say another prayer when he opens
up In the morning. This is done BY every
merchant, and the crossing and sealing OF
these padlocks is going on all along the
arcades at the hour of closing.
The Russians do not advertise great deal
and Russian business advertisement looks
six letters in the Russian alphabet, and
these letters seem to be combination OF
the Greek, Chinese and the Arabic charac-
ters A great majority of the lower classes
cannot read them and the result is that it
hardly pays the merchant to advertise. You
see few posters about the cities and the
man is absent from these Russian
streets. Many of the peasants cannot read
the signs on the stores, and for this reason
nearly every store has painted on its walls
pictures of the articles sold within.
Realistic Business Signs.
I saw barber sign the other day here in
Moscow which consisted of bare-armed
man shaving patient, who sat upright in
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A Sensib Q Edict.

The intendente, or civil governor of the
city of Buenos Ayres, finding that the
death rate of the city was much higher than
it should be, organized an Investigation
into the habits of life and the food of the
inhabitants. He discovered that a great
part of the sickness of the city originated
from the importation of articles so adulter-
ated as to be injurious when used as human
food. He has therefore issued a notice to
merchants, shopkeepers and the public
generally that the chemical analysis of
every alimentary substance imported, manu-
factured or sold for consumption is obliga-
tory, and that the case, cssk, bottle or
wrapper, ETC., containing the same must
bear the seal of the chemical Office. Mer-
chants are prohibited from printing on
their label the certificate of the chemical
Office, the only authorized form of certif-
cate being the seal obtained from the Office
itself.
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A Business Advertisement
disc and each top had a number of holes in
which to stick candles
Using the Candles In Worship.

Using the Candles in Worship
The worshipers whom 1 followed tramped
from one of these candelabra to another,
lighting candle before each and putting it
up to burn before the picture. While they
stood aud crossed themselves before the
saints 1 saw other candles being passed up
from man to man, finally reaching the hands
OF the church officer who presided over each
candlestiek and being lit by him and put be-
fore the saint. There were probably 500
candles burning at one time in this one
church and when you remember that this
goes on all over Russia every Sunday and
every holiday and during most of the days
OF the week you can see where the candles
go to. A large part of the candles used are
made In homes and not in large factories,
and in fact the house industry of Russia
seems to purpass that of the factories It is
estimated that there are 100000 workmen
in Russia who make things at their own
homes, and ore authority states that these
people turn out $750, 0,000,0 worth of
goods every year These people in many
cases peddIe their goods themselves, and in
some instances they work for the factories
Russia has in fact many queer trades of
which we know nothing. Along the Volga
there are colonies who make a speciality of
breeding and raising cats, which are sold
Tor the 1ur ana winch are usually disposed
of to peddlers. The cats bring from 5 to Is
cents apiece and the peddIer collects them
in bag, kills them as soon as he gets awav
from the villages in which they have been
bought and takes off their skins, which are
shipped by him to the fur centers of the
Empire. In a village not far off from the
home of 1olstoi, in Tnla, there are 80 fami-
lies who do nothing else but raise canaries
and in Tamboff there is a section where
pigeons are bred for the sake of their skins.
which are sold at the weekly bazaars and at
the fairs. The feathers are, of course. left
on the skins and they eventually form
part of some lady's cloak or hat.
What Can Be Bought In Russia.
bought a pair OF boots and a rair of
slippers for 50, and l was offered a very
good travelling satchel of the finest Russian
leather for 81 80. l bought shawl in Mos
COW to-day which is so large that it wculd
cover the biggest double bed in America
and so fine that i: will go through Iady's
ring. 1t was made by the peasants of
Orenburg and is OF the kind known as ring
shawls. 1t was made entirely bv hand and
the fine lace work OF these Russian peasants
is wonderful. The yelvets made by them
are noted all over Europe, and some of their
yelvets bring S. yard. They make car
pets which are equal to those of Persia and
Turkey, and 1 met here at Moscow Ameri
can buyers for Tiffany & Co., OF New York.
and Bailey, Banks K Biddle, of PhiladeI-
phia, who are sent here to buy the wonder
tul Russian silver and the famous bronzes
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Toned snuff boxes came, and they now make
sleeve buttons, tea caddies, book covers and
lacquer pictures.
Every Man Has His Icon.
Speaking of pictures, the icon trade is
one of the great industries of this country.
An icon is the picture of saint, the face
of which is painted, but the body of which
is made of carved gold, silver or brass
Every man in Russia has his icon and there
is scarcely q room in a Russian house which
does not contain one of these sacred pict-
ures They are of all sizes and prices,
from little ones no bigger than a watch and
worth only few cents up to great paint
ings the size of barn door and worth tens
of thousands OF dollars. The Russian says
his prayers before them and he looks upon
them as the guardian angels of his life.
There is no store in Russia that has not one
OF these icons hanging up in it, and if you
want to De ordinarily polite you will take
of your hat when you enter the store in
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An enthusiastic sportsman has con-
structed boat in the form of a canoe which
can be propelled equally well by sail, oars
or screw. The screw is worked by pedals,
which q speed of 81 miles can be kept
up for several hours. The boat is said to
be remarkably silent, and the mechanism,
which is simple, is not liable to breakage.
The position of tine occupant is very COM
Portable, and he can read or fish while work
perform its evolutions with the greatest
ease, and to move backward or forward at
the will of the operator, besides turning
about in an exceedingly limited space The
sportsman can conceal himself completely
and fire with ease, as both of his hands are
entirely free. When it is desired to use
either oars or sail the screw can be INSTANTLY
raised In the cir.
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OUININE AND PE-RC-NA.


Two Great Malarlal Remedies Compared.
Nothing is more clearly demonstrated
than that there are two distinct forms of
malaria, which, for the want of better
names, may be denominated acute and
chronic. 1t has been recently shown that
the parasite which causes malaria are diff
ferent in the acute and chronic forms The
acute form is commonly known as fever
and ague, or chills and fever. This form of
the disease is too well known in malarlous
districts to need description, and is gener-
ally curable by large doses of quinine,
though this is not so favorable remedy as
Pe-ru-na. The chronic form of malaria is,
by no means, SO we'll understood, as the
symptoms are hardly ever exactly alike in
any two cases, and it is rarely, if ever, cur
able by taking quinine. Each case pre-
sents slightly different symptoms, the most
common ones being dull headache, sallow
complexion, furred tongue, bad taste, poor
digestion, shiyering feelings, hot flashes,
cold feet and hands, and constant, tired
feelings.
Quinine will not cure cases of chronic
malaria as above described. Pe-ru-na is
the only specific for such cases. Pe-ru-na
is sure to cure, leaves the system with TO
arrangement, and produces no drug habit
hard to leave off, which quinine will do
Pe-ru-na is for sale at most drugstores,
accompanied with directions for use; but
those who are using it should send for the
Family Physician No. 1, treatise on
malaria Sent free by the Pe-ru-na Drug
Manufacturing Company, Columbus, o.
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heaven upon wings. When they saw the
Spaniards with their light compilations, fall
boards, shining armor, splendid dress and
gorgeous banners and the strange ceremo-
nies on shore, with the monks chanting,
they were sure that these wonderful beings
must be spiritual visitors from above. They
were terrified at first, but after awhile, see
ing that no harm was coming to them, they
began to feel more at ease, and approaching
the Spaniards fell down before them in
alteration.
Columbus made every effort to gain the
good will of the natives. He gave them
red caps, glass beads, hawks bells and other
baubles, and received in exchange fruit,
parrots, cotton yarn and few ornaments in
gold. The Indians regarded the worthless
things that we're given to them as priceless
treasures, because from the hands of super
natural beings, and the Spaniards took ad-
vantage of this to their own profit.
The first inquiry of Columbus wa, for
gold. He received conflicting reports, but
all that he heard convinced him that he had
arrived near to the mainland Of Asia and