The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-08-05

from the markets. III any are louhu,
they are wretched things; or if they
have been carefully kept, very dear.
But the American apple that began to
come last fall and conquered the Ger
man market has not only not disap-
peared, but is coming in enormous
quantities. Last week saw five thou
sand loads of beautiful, red Baldwins
landed in the wholesale houses in Ber-
lin and sold, according to quality,
from Is to 35 cents for five pounds.
The IS cents was paid, of course, for
perfect apples. Those sold from
wagons by street pedlers vary in price,
Int seldom 90 over rs pfennings (lS
cents) for five pounds. These, too,
have no faults, except slight bruise
from pressure during the voyage:
They DIRE most excellent for household
purposes: 1t looks, too, as if Ameri.
can apples are to continue coming, not
only during the next thirty days, but,
experts say, even up to the arrival OF
Continental apples next fall.
An expert connected with the For
estry Division of the Agricultural De
partment has been studying the white
pine supply of this country, and has
reached the conclusion that those who
assume to tell within few years how
long it will last, have not sufficiently
considered the conditions governing
consumption. At the present rate
there would be none of this most use
full of woods left in the East after fiji
teen years, and forty would see the
Pacific slope swept bare of it. AS
pine grows scarcer, however, its price
will rise, substitutes will be used
whenever possible. and the consump-
ton will grow less and less. There IL
no real danger that the genus Will be
exterminated, for long before the last
pines are threatened, the country VIII
be aroused to the absolute necessity
for intelligent forest culture. Nothing
very effective in this direction is like
lv to be attempted until Americans
are reduced to much smaller supply
of lumber than they now possess. AT
present they are using for all purposes
about $50 cubic feet of wood per cap.
tia each year, while in England people
get along moderately well with only Is
cubic feet
The American youth should derive
fresh inspiration from the career OF
Hon. John Green Brady, who has re-
Gently been appointed Governor of the
territory of Alaska, says the New York
Times. He was born in New York
city in what is known as the Tender.
loin district. He knew neither par
ents nor relatives, and was veritable
street arab. In 1860 a society was
organized to care for homeless waits,
and little Jack" Brady, with num-
Der of others, was put in a car and
taken to Indiana, where they were
given to anybody who would take
them. When the car arrived at Tip
ton and number had been passed off,
a certain Judge John Green, then O
prominent citizen of that city, went tc
the car and called for the "ugliest,
raggedest and most friendless" of the
lot. The manager of the boys pre-
scented "Jack" The Judge was at first
! inclined to refuse to receive him, but
finally took him home and presented
him to his wife. She was mortified
and chagrined, but after washing up
the boy she thought she might learn
to love him. Jack appreciated his
new home and spent his leisure in
study. After few years he was grad
uated from the Upton schools. The
Judge then sent him to Wesleyan Col.
lege, and afterwards to Harvard. AT
ter his graduation he was sent tc
Great Britain, where he took theo-
logical course and returned to Upton
in 1876. He was sent to Alaska in
1877 as a missionary by the Presby-
terrain church. He became inter
ested in the new territory, and in 1881
returned to the States, bringing with
him many specimens of gold and sill
yer rock. Prospectors and capitalists
became interested, and rapid growth
in population is the result. He gave
great deal of information on Alaskan
resources for the census reports of
1890, and was one of the territorial
commissioners under the Harrison adj
ministration.