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Pope Leo's Wine Harvest.

Thanks 10 the marvellous strength of his constitution, the pope seems to have rallied slightly from his recent ill., ness, and has been able to devote his attention 10 a yearly function, which possesses some little importance, though it lies quite outside the sphere of his ecelesiastieal duties. namely, the gathering of the grape harvest in the grounds of the vatican. The vineyards of the latter extend over several acres, and yield an average of 6,0o0 bottles of an excellent wine, which enjoys great favor among the prelates and in those religious communities which permit the use of stimulants. Much of the wealth of the Pecci family, to which the pope belongs, is derived from the produce of their vineyards, and it is from them that the present pontiff has inherited his pronounced taste for this particu- lar form of agriculture. The holy father invariably manifests the strong est interest i'll the character and quan- tity of the yield of the vatican vine yards, and rarely allows year to pass without paying a visit to the presses, where the men are engaged in extract ing the juice from the grape.-Chicago Inter Ocean
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NL0NDIME .1s;czs2se111
BY JOHN (ANGDON HEATON
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Its a disgrace to the camp, he said, with deep feeling, sweeping his eye slowly over the group of us. If I ever find out the blasted cub that writ that paper and nailed it up, I'll make him think he's roasting in the bottom oven of the devils kitchen with forced draft on Also, there'H be a meeting this afternoon. Here Four o'clock"
 Dolan's speech decided the group, which had for moment hung unde- cided between leyity and disapproval. It was full meeting that followed at the hour named, and Ike Moffitt, John Doe, Etienne Maeier and Jack Foster were appointed q committee of ar engagements, Dolap acting as chair man.
 The news spread like wildfire, and by evening of the next day enough simi- lar committees had been formed to in sure accommodations for every soul in Dawson willing to make bluff. at eat ing a Thanksgiving dinner Pretty soon this new notice appeared in the place of the bogus proclamation on Dolan's door:
 PRIVIT HOME THANKSGIVING
 A Privit Home Thanksgiving Dinner will be Served on Thanksgiving Day, which will be November 9, as we reckon it, at five ?. m, at the Palace Hotel and Grand Cafe Metropole, Dawson City. Tickets, one half ounce. For Sale inside, at the Bar
 BY ORDER COM.
 am bound to admit that the four members of the committee spent most of the next few days at the bar ar ranging details, and that John Doe was drunk a good share of the time. He had called himself John Buck on coming to Dawson. The nickname was given as delicate intimation of dis belief in his identity
 When men are lonely in the great wilderness or at sea or in strange lands far away from home little things in- terest them strangely. We thought of nothing else save this dinner until the day arrived.
 By common understanding we gath cred at Dolan's an hour before the din- ner was timed to be ready. Silent we sat and still. looking gloomily at one another. Then loud, booming voice started in to sing. 1t was big Jack Foster, and we all joined in;
 Thus far the Lord hath led us on,
 Thus far His power prolongs our day. and I suppose every man there thought. as he sang, of the early dark ness and the moaning wind outside, and the long, fierce winter so swiftly l coming on, that would listen to no prayers and be moved to relenting by no sufferings.
 A little pause followed the song, and then Shortfoot Dolan rose impressive ] ly to say; As chaSrman of the eom-
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You could have heard a pin drop when Ike uncoiled his long legs and got up, Mrs. Moffitt looking up at him, kind of proud like.
 Boys" he said, "I'm no preacher, as ye all know Nor we don't need no preacher to remind us this day that we're in the holler O the Almighty's hand. We're temptin' Providence, that's what we're doin' here, brayin' the win ter nigh on to the eternal snow where He never meant man to dwell There ain't one of us that don't know trials are comin'. It'll need stout hearts to live through what's before us. If we find ourselves some day face to face with starvation and famine and pestf- lence, it's because of the stubbornness that's born in us and the greed of gold that comes nigh making beasts of us sometimes. And if we're spared it'll most likely be because it's the Divine plan to give us more time to stake out our claims in the great golden Here after.
 'fYou know how it is. Sometimes the pickax goes easy and sometimes it
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goes hard, and the pay dirt is always pretty much always, anYhow-way down next the hardpan An if you don't get through the claim an work it clear to the bottom you don't win out. It takes patience and forbearanee to do anything in this world, an' # takes heap more of lem to do any- thing for the next. We've got to keep the camp clean an decent. We've got to realize in the shadow of what may be comin' that we are all brothers an sisters, an we must be ready to hold out the helpin' hand to each other, There's some that's foolish and waste ful, an some that's worse than others, though we're all bad enough; but it must be share and share alike, if the grub runs low. l don't know much about religion, but if l had to choose between passin' in my checks to-mor- row like a white man or twin on awhile longer by some sneak play Pd-well, I'd pray for grace, shut my eyes and go ahead on general principles and grace of Heaven.
 We don't want sneak camp. We
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don't want drunk camp, nor gam blin' camp, nor shootin' camp. But there's another thing we don't want, either. We don't want to forget that the drunkards and gamblers, and even the shooters, is all children of the same family, and brothers an sisters in His household We all walk on two legs eXceptin' Billy the Bum, an he did be- fore he got caught in the log jam-and We all have the same color, pretty much, and our blood runs red an hot d few years, more or less, an then the time for quittin' comes to all of us alike. And the Lord that made us am knows us better'n we know ourselves He'll know an judge us, each accordin' 10 his lights. He'll understand. And we shall be asked to give an account in of our talents by One whose books are always balanced, fair and square
 Now we'll all just stand up and say the Lords Prayer together"
 There was a great rustling of heavy garments and shuffling of big boots as we rose, and then the humble of many voices. Another hymn-"Old Hundred, ,
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DEoPLE have often importuned me

DEoPLE have often importuned me
 to tell this story, and I have as often refused.
 Now, therefore, that l am an old man, and the sole survivor of all that band of ill-fated adventurers; now that no one's feelings can be hurt by the recital, I can see no further objection; indeed, ii seems my duty to see that the story of Thanksgiving day, 1897, in the Klondike, is not lost to the world.
 The histories tell how the raw town of struggling streets of shanties lay that year along the bank of the creek and the shore of the Yukon; how the newcomers poured into town until late in the autumn, crowding every shapty to suffocation and even camping out in tents almost at the edge of the Arctic circle What the histories cannot de scribe is the tense anxiety of the little town, its feyerish growth, the stark suicides that lay in the street O morn ings, the haggard faces worn with fierce toll and privation. No, they cannot describe that; nor can I.
 It may seem the grimmest of jokes that such hungry, tattered, desperate gang should have thought of celebrat- ing Thanksgiving at all. But habit is strong. Most of us had seen better days in pleasanter homes, and we didn't propose to let the 25th of Novem- Der go by unnoticed.
 Yet we might have forgotten the day altogether in our greed for gold, our fears and our hardships, but for an ill timed attempt at d jest made by some one who afterward never dared let his name be known.
 It was on the morning of the 18th of November that this announcement was found posted on Dolan's door:
 NOTICE.
 Wheras, a kind Providence has Grub staked us through another year with no more than the usual Proportion of Star vation and Chilblains, and
 Whereas, The aforesaid kind Providence has opened up here such crack-a-jaek tier of claims that we're all likely to be starved and frozen to death before spring by the multiplication of mouths, sub traction of grub and division of frewood; therefore,
 I. by the authority vested in me, do pro- claim Thursday, November 25, as Thanks giving Day. and particularly recommend that on that day Dawson City be run wide open.
 Given at the White House nitD under the hand and seal of
 BILL MKINLEY.
 Shortfoot Dolan himself came hob bling out of his saloon as a crowd of us were reading, some with laughing faces. some with anger in our hearts.
 Dolan spelled the paper out slowly, then reached up a sinewy hand and tore it down. -..,
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Waking Up tbe ColoneI.
Copyright, 1897
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 A SISTOOD talking with the landlord "A of the hotel a eolored man entered the office and inquired:
 Will yo' please tell me, Mistah White, if Kurnel Snow dun slept yere last night?"
 Yes, the colonel is upstall an bed, : was the reply.
 Den his wife wants him right off, an can't wait"
 Can't she wait for him to wake up ?1
 No, sah-can't wait tall. SaidI wal to stay right yere till he dun woke up.1
 "Well, 1 reckon it's got to be done, sighed the landlord, "and the soone| it's over with the better. l tried to gd him to go home, but he was drunk an pig-headed. l hope nobody will g( killed"
 ''ls there anything peculiar in wa ing up Col. Snow2. | asked
 "Yes, indeed If you want to s| how it works, come upstairs.
 l followed him to a room on the thi floor His first move was to inspect rooms on either side and opposite, d then, telling me to retire up the h he stationed himself to the left of colonel's door and reached around battered on it with his fists, and cal out:
 'Oh, there, Col. Snow-oh, colond
 There was no reply until he had dh mered and shouted for three or minutes. Then we heard the cold tumble out of bed, and five seed later there was the report of a pi and bullet bored it's way through door.
 Are yo' awake. Col. Snow?'' que the landlord as he battered again.
 There was pop! pop! pop! And bullet came through the door-t was crash of glass in the tra11 over tive heard the spud of bu| as they entered the walls. With shot there was a yell, and after six lets had been fired we heard q eyertufned and furniture smashed the end of about ten minutes the opened, and the colonel stuck his out and demanded
 Who is it, and what's wanted!
 Just waking yo' up, colonel wife wants yo'." replied the landld "Oh-I see. We'll, I'll be outi in ute"
 Wide awake, colonel?'
 sYes."
 All right And ten minutes later, when th mel descended to the office, ready home, he laid a $20 bill before q lord and said:
 Reckon that'll pay the Tom, and hope didn't hurt} Bad way I've got when I'mf and, I must try to get out of I must!s N. o
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ringing out like peal of triumph and the service was over. I have never for gotten it. You know, everyone knows now, what fate had in store for LIS, and how tragieally Ike Moffitts words were realized.
 The benches were then pushed back to make room for boards laid on barrel ends, and we drew up around the tables 10 discuss the dinner. It was certainly one of the best I'd ever eaten. Short foot Dolan had done himself proud. and the rest of the committee shone in the reflected light. The menu, as near as l can remember, was like this;
 Pea Soup
 Dried Yukon Salmon Bread. Olives. Crackers.
 Canned Corned Beef.
 Dried Potatoes Dried Tdrnips.
 Roast Turkey Canned Dried Apple Sauce. Currant Jelly.
 Canned Plum Pudding.
 Coffee. Tea.
 l may have forgotten some of the things, but it was about like that Any how, it was good full meal, such us some of us were never to taste again. A long time we sat and talked about old times in the states; the long, long night dragged on.
 At last we rose 10 go The stars were shining clear outside. 1t was al- ready bitter cold, and keen wind came clustering up the valley of the great river from the northwest aud the home of the ieebergs
 We thought of the cruel distance the implaeable distance. Yet, with stouter hearts and strengthened spirits, we separated, each to seek lis bleak hut in the great Arctic wilderness.
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times more sensible than people, and when they find they cannot improve matters they settle down and make themselves as comfortable as possible under the circumstances.
 At the Metropolitan ZOO in New York, the monkeys seem to take life the most comfortably of any of the ami mals. They do not pace up and down and look savage and miserable like .'Br'er Wolf, and ssBr'er Bear'' in the cages outside Their lot is, perhaps, a little happier than that of the other animals, because they receive better care and more attention from keepers as well as visitors. They are such curi- ous little fellows and look so comically like folks that they attract notice from
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A Horse That Ate class.

After long and peculiar illness a horse belonging to Frank Heinen, of Reading, Pa, died the other day, and a post-mortem examination revealed that the animals stomach was partly filled with broken glass, some pieces of which had pierced the tissue. The glass was of several kinds, going to prove that the horse had a fondness for the diet.
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HUMAN NATURES MAY.

Thanksgivin ain.t the roasted fowl, Ner yit the cranberry sass; We ought ter give our thanks @ much Fer jest some bread ter pass. Thanksgivins ainit the relativas That flock in hy the score: We ought ter offer thankfulness With jest ourselyes-no more. An ylt tis human natur's way Fer friends an meat an tart Ter warm out thankfulness a bit That's froze around the heart.
 Detroit Free Press
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ARD it is to im- a zine what the
 o
 poor =eaged beasts have to be thank fuI for imprisoned as they are for life, and not a very long life at that. But =
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Furnished the Ham $

Teacher Fritz, tell me the name of the animal that furnishes us with hams?
 eThe butcner."- Philadelphia Times.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-01-30
On a Stocked Stream.

| had just got my rod together and was
hooking on Il worm when the owner OF the
brook. a sturdy and somewhat ill-looking
farmer, appeared on the bank beside me.
[ offered a short salutation, and received
one in return considerably shorter than my
own.
"Any trout in this brook p asked.
"Chock full on um.
'You allow fishing here, of course? p
;'Yaas, eff the pay is all right.
"How much q
'Five dollars trip, now she s stocked. "
''Oh, she's stocked, is she? Well, I'll
give YOU So; in advance, too.
He pocketed the money, and | swashed
down the brook, basketful of half-pound
ers swimming before my dazzled vision.
In the first three miles the only bite | had
was from my coat pocket. spent an
hour casting in 1.-The Pool another one
through ''The Cut and finished out the
afternoon skirmishing around the shores of
'The Pond" The night came on, and
| was glad IF ever | have an evil deed
to perform, anything like numbering an
able bodied farmer, l prefer to do it after
dark. On my way to the station stopped
at the house of the farmer and inquired for
him.
PAS gone tur the village said the
boy; she got some money turday, SO he's
gone over ter cit some groceries. -
''Your father told me the brook was
stocked l said, fercely.
$50 tbs. -
II don't believe there's trout in it
over an il ch long.
Il don't nuther, said the boy; pa
didn' stock it tell las summer.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-01-30
Kalamazoo Celery Industry.
From the New York Evening Post.

Kalamazoo celery is so well known in
every part Of this country that the name is
used for all the better kinds Of celery, and,
like ''Blue Point oysters and ''Little
Neck CLAIMS, - the guarantee contained in
the name sells the article to the exclusion
OF other brands. The excellence Of this
celery is said to be due to three things
good seed, dark, heavy soil, and care in
growing and bleaching it. Careful pack
ing might be added But as any gardener
can select good seed and give the plants
good culture Kalamazoo must excel in
the soil OF better natural conditions as
celery region.
The celery meadows are just outside Of
the town Of Kalamazoo, Mich, north and
south of the city, and surrounded by hills,
divided crosswise by high ridge on which
the houses are built. The meadows are
about three miles long and a mile wide.
These bottom lands are not common farm
ing lands, but are composed OF peculiar
form of black muck, the result of vegetable
decomposition, and formerly they were SO
rich that no fertilizers were needed. Not
more than dozen years ago very little
celery was raised on these meadows, and
none for shipment to other markets. The
growers are nearly all Hollanders, and they
live in dwellings on their small holdings,
which generally consist of from five to ten
acres. They are frugal, industrious race,
and they adopt the most advanced system
Of intensive farming. Five acres easily
support an ordinary Holland family, and
there is no doubt but the head of it saves
money.
The city of Kalamazoo is one Of the
prettiest in the country, and it owes not a
little of this to the industry of the celery
growers. The amount of celery shipped
from the city varies from year to year, but
conservative estimate places the average
quantity at sixty tons per day from July
to January l. This would mean about
5000, 600 dozen, and, at 10 cents per
dozen, this would amount to $3.50, 900
As this is a very low estimate, one is al
most safe in saying that the industry nets
the town at least half million dollars a
wear
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-01-30
VOL. XXXII.--NO. II.

miser for her sons sake-how, in spite
of death, she had heaped her all upon the
beloved child, and had returned to her
shanty and her COW. There was very
good picture Of the cow.
Ann went down to newsstand on a
neighboring street corner and bought a
supply of this fcrid article, Of which she
was the heroine Then she borrowed a
postal card Of Mrs Mandelbaum and sent
for Kitty Mccarthy to come and see her.
1t happened that the McCarthys, not
being much given to literature, had seen
nothing of the famous article
Hold yer hand, Kitty Mccarthy, "
an oi II pay the car fare fer the whole of
yees to go an see. It's tin cints there
and tin cints back, for We Git wan trans
fer, do ye mind That Il take yer
mother She paid two more That 5
fer Moike, yer father. 1.-TWO more. }
There fer Dan; there fer Torrance,
there's fer yerself. Kitty Mccarthy;
there fer Nora; there's fer Meery Ann.
It's no use payin' fer the twins, Sure
yees can take them on yer laps on account
av the small size av thin; but there the
fare fer Bridget Docherty-seein' We trai,
her like wan av the family! An here s
the peppers. Take them wid We an doan'
be losin thin. They'll be tellin' ye all
about it. -
The tomb was quite an object of pill
grimage, being jauntily accessible by trolley,
and Benoni' work was noticed even BY the
graver journals as worthy Of visitation.
The sculptor had hewn from pure block
Of Carara marble very beautiful angel Of
the resurrection. The strong young fig
ure springing from a vague design of clouds
seemed to give itself with free upward
leap Of every line to ininity and to spread
its life in the one utterance that was cary
ed as nearly as sound can be carved from
the long trump pressed upon its lifted lips.
The message was the fuller to the heart
from its silence on the human ear; one felt
that it was a harmony too great and round
ed for the narrow sense Of man, like the
super. mortal music of the spheres. But
to the intelligence Of the McCarthys, when
they saw it, it blew familiar pipe in
very human key.
AHA! and did yees get left or didn t
yees, me darlin So it seemed to them to
be footing. AN aint this an Elegant
tomb intoirely ly-an' Dinnis in it,
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-01-30
The Bicycle in Relation to Health
From Harper's Weekly.

The greatest danger of bicycling, in
common with other sports, results from the
strain which active eXertion necessarily
brings upon the heart. That all important
organ tends, like other muscles, to lose
tonicity under the sedentary conditions of
the average life, and readily becomes en-
barrassed if asked to perform an unusual
work, as any one who is not in training can
assure himself by climbing flight of stairs
rapidly, OF attempting to run a few hun
dred yards. Under such conditions the
heart often doubles the frequency of its
beat in attempting to dispose of the in
creased food of blood that is driven into it
| by muscular contraction. With a dis
eased heart the strain thus imposed may
be hazardous Several cases are recorded
where person with such heart has fall
len dead while riding bicycle. But then
thousands Of other cases are recorded
where persons have similarly fallen dead
while riding in carriages, or while sitting
in easy-chairs at home 1t does not fol-
low, [ presume, that we must all eschew
easy-chairs, carriages, and bicycles, but it
does follow that any one who has rea-
son to doubt the normality of his
heart may wisely consult physician be-
fore deciding to undertake any active ex-
ertion, bicycling included
Even the perfectly normal heart may
suffer permanent injury if subjected to pro-
lonsed and excessive strain This fact
should be borne in mind by every novice
in bicycling, for it is peculiarly easy to
overdo under the exhilarating influence of
this pastime. Presently the heart gains
tone and strength, and is able to adapt
itself to the new conditions; but until time
has been given for this it is the part Of
wisdom to proceed carefully, training on
gradually. Furthermore, the person who
is wise will use reasonable discretion as to
the amount Of exertion he will undertake
even when thoroughly trained. AS we
have inherent differences Of strength, each
one of us should be in some measure law
unto himself as to how fast and how far he
shall ride, keeping well within the limits
OF his own strength and endurance, and
remembering that healthful fatigue is one
thing, complete exhaustion quite another.
The person who rides for pleasure and
health and uses reasonable Judgment will
not feel obliged to cover ten miles in half
hour, OF to pedal. up every hill that some
one else has managed to climb. Above
all, he will eschew such insane and harm
ful performances as century runs and
similar attempts to cover distance for the
mere sake of covering it regardless of con-
sequences.