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3HIE EOTEKFETSE* ENTERPRISE CO., FOBLISHBS3 AND PKOPBIBTOKk. TEBM81 $1.00 per Year, in Advance. Advertising Kates on Application. THE ENTERPRISE. 3 VOTED TO YI6INITY INTERESTS AND TEE GATHERING OF LOCAL NEWS. YOL. VII. NO. 32. ALTAMONT, JST. Y., SATUBDAY, FEB. 21, 1891. WHOLE 1TO. 344. THE ENTERPRISE Job Department Unapplied withfiellitleifor dojat FIRST-CLASS WORK. LEGAL PBUfTING-. SpMltl ntu glYen on mortgage foreclosure!, i * tlc« to creditor! and other legal printing. •^reru.A.'r is SCROFULA It Is that impurity in the Mood, which, ac- cumulating in the glands of the neck, pro- duces unsightly lumps or swellings; which causes painful running sores en the arms, legs, or feet; which developes ulcers in the eyes, ears, or nose, often causing blindness or deafness; which is the origin of pimples, can- cerous growths, or the many other manifesta- tions usually ascribed to '-humors;\ which, fastening upon the lungs, causes consumption and death. Being the most ancient, it is the most general of all diseases or affections. I'or verv fuw persons aro entirely free from it. CURED By taking Hood's Sarsaparilla, which, by the remarkable cures it has accomplished, often when other medicines have failed, has proven itself to be a potent and peculiar medicine lor this disease. Some of these CDres are really wonderful. If you suflerfrom scrofula, he sura to try Hood's Sarsaparilla. \Every spring my wife and children have •been troubled with scrofula, sores breaking out on them in various places. My little boy, three years old, has been a terrible sufferer. Last springhe was one mass of sores from head to feet. I was advised to use Hood's Sarsapa- rilla, a. -.1 wo have all taken it. The result is that all have been cured of the scrofula, jny little boy boiug entirely free from sores, and all four of my children look bright end healthy.\ AY. B. ATIEEBXO^-, Passaic City, N. J. Hood's Sarsaparilfa Soldbyalldrupgisis. gljsixforgs. Prepared only hT C. I. HOOD & CO., Aiiothecaries, Lowell, Mass. \IOO Doses One Dollar • FEAHK S. LAPE, Confrador and Painter. ALSO PAPER HANGING. \Will sell at reduced prices bsst Zinc and Lead Paints oE my own manufacture. Call »nd examine stock. P. 0. Box 100, ALTAMONT, N. Y. Hotel and Restaurant 28 & 28 MAIDEN LANE, ALBANY, N, Y. DRUGGIST, Makes a Specialty of Truces, Abdominal Supporters and Shoulder Braces. 39 WasMngton Ave., Albany, - ST« \^g- 1 When in the City of Albany, VISITS THE Albany Half-Dime Lunck Room, Each and Every Dish Served 5 Cent*. Specialty of Tea and Coffee. 537 Broadway, - - Albany, N. Y. HICKS St. PICKUP, Props. I \When in want of anything in th« line o£ Dentistry call on QUAKER STREET, On Saturdays of each, west he will ba at Gallupvills, M. Y. AMSRICAH^HOTEL, N. TIMESON, Prop., 221 State Street, Sclienectady, H. I. Good Barns and Livery Attached. WTerms Seasonable. JOHU RYALL, Justice of the Peace. Particular attention given to the drawing of Deeds, Mortgages, Lea3es, Bill3 of Sale, etc. Blanks constantly on hand. Terms rea- sonable. Office and uost-olEca address, VOOKHESSVILLE, N. Y. JAfV.ES R. MMN, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW, NOTARY PUBLIC. Also Insures Buildings, Farm Property and Live Stock against Loss by Fire aricl Light- ning. Office and P. 0. Address, GUILDERLAND, N. Y. ~~ ALBANY CITY SAVINGS mmm Established I85O. Banking House, 47 State Street. Deposits Securely Invested According to tho Laws of the State. Money loaned on bond and mortgage and on securities allowed by law. 4 PER CENT. Interest at FOUR PER CENT, paid on de- posits not exceeding THRL.E THOUSAND DOLLARS, commencing THE FIRST OB EACH 1I0XTH. INTEREST PAYABLE JANUARY AND JULY PIRST. Deposits may tie made by mail in post- office orders, bank checks, or cash in regis- tered letters, cr by express, and bank books will be returned liy mail to such depositors in registered packages. OJSTICEKS. P. M. MURPHY President GEORGE I. AMSDELL....Vice-President. JONAS H. BROOKS Treasurer. EDWARD J. GALLIEN Secretary. TRUSTEES. P. M. MURPHT, RODNEY VOSE, SEM>EN E. MARVIN 1 , GEO. H. THACHEB, GE0. I. AJtSDELU E. DE h. PAUIEB, KJIANCXS H. WOODS, ALBEKT HESSBERG, ISBAN HESS, HORACE S. BELI,' JOHN E. \WALKER J. M. BATTEEMASJ, f AMES \VV. Cox, JK., J. H. BROOKS, EDWABD J, GALUBK Oregon and Washington aro becoriing great hop raising States. Of the 611 colored men ia the employ- ment of the Federal Goverrnent, 159 are iu the Interior Department. Fiji is commencing the cultivation (,f tobacco, the enterprise being assisted by the concession of Government land to tho planters on easy terms. . \WHAT SHALL IT PROFIT? ; K1 lay waste and wither up with doubt ! The blessed fields of heaven where once my I faith Possessed itself serenely safe from death; • K I deny tho things past finding out; | OrifX orphan my own soul of One ! That seemed a Father, and make void the place Within me where He dwelt in power and | grace, I What do I gain, that am myself undone? —William D. Howells, in Harper. The Boston Cultivator believes that \the abundance of cheap and fertile land in the West, and its possession by farmere of small means and roving ten- dencies, has operated to lower the stand- ard of American agriculture.\ • The heavy increase in the Eussian ! army and navy estimates will furnish in- | teresting reading for continental diplo- j mats. It shows, concludes the San Fran- cisco Chronicle, that the millenium, when abitration shall succeed -war, is as far ofi as ever. Sheep raising may be profitable, after all, admits the Boston Transcript, if this story of the experience of a young New York woman is true: Two years ago her brother, Saving money invested in shesp in Utah induced her to put $1~,DO into the investment. She has late- ly sold her share to her brother for $3500. Queen i.iiiuokalani,who succeeds Kala- kaua on the Hawaiian throne, is fifty- two years old. She is an amiable and very intelligent woman, having a taste for poetry and music. She is stately iu appearance and has a dignified carriage, but of late years she has become rather stout. She is animated and interesting in conversation, speaking in the low and musical tones that are peculiar to her race. She speaks English and is well versed-in the current literature of the day. E. L. Godkin, in the Forum, under- takes to prove that the expedition to re- lieve Emin was clearly a piratical under- taking, since it had the sanction of no Government and its leader was responsi- bleto no power. In the course of the argument Mr. Godkin shows the sym- pathy for Eniin which caused the ex- pedition to be undertaken was a senti- ment born of the Gordon myth, and he points out the curious fact that the peo- ple of Africa, owing to the slave trade, has always been regarded as fit spoil for pirates even by civilized nations who hold no such notions even about any other savages. Mr. Godkin expresses the high- est admiration for Stanley's courage and endurance, and approves of his conduct of the expedition. It is its legal charac- ter only that he criticises. <- The Boston JETeraW thinks that the fact that only three persons were killed by ! electric light plants iii New York State last year, while eight lost their lives by \blowing out the gas\ rather goes to show that it is less dangerous to monkey with electricity than to fool with gas. A London vegetarian amateur athletic club has just been formed. The avowed object of the founders is to have a school for vegetarian athletes which will in time produce as good runners, wrestlers, harriers, vaulters as any of those now be- fore the public who get their results on ' a meat diet. The Indiana House of Representatives has passed a resolution directing the au- ] thorities of that State to co-operate with Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, Kentucky and Pennsyl- vania in an inquiry as to how much for- ! eiga capital is loaned in those States, ! with a view of taxing that capital. The baby King of Spain starts out well, soliloquizes the San Francisco Chronicle, , by causing the death of his nurse before he has cut his milk teeth. If he had been born four hundred years ealier this would probably have been regarded as a good omen of his prowess as a warrior, but in these degenerate days the incident will be variously interpreted by the super- stitious. RECEIVINGS. PRINCE. La Pauline isn't much of a place, and yet even the train de luxe stops there. This is because this is the junction where trains leave on the little branch line that runs to Hyers. A tall mountain stands sentinel over La Pauline, and if a person were on the top of the mountain he would see Toulon and the iron-clads, as well as & great stretch of the blue Mediterran- ean. On the long platform north of the line five young men were marching up and down together, singing at\ the tops of their voice-3: \There is a tavern in this town— In this town. And there my true love sits him down, Sits him down. And we'll hang our harps on the weeping willow tree, And maythp world go well with me— We'ii with me,\ Or words to that effect. They sang very boisterously, and suited their marching to the tune, giving three stamps with their feet all together when they came to the refrain: \In this tows.\ They ap- peared to be American citizens, and seemingly didn't give a hang if all the •world knew it. Suddenly the five stopped before a young man who was seated on one of , the benches. He was a quiet, dignified, self-possessed young fellow, and he looked up afc them as they halted before him. \Come on, Johnson,\ said one of the five, \we are not going to let you go back on the crowd like this. You sing bass, and we just want a. good bass voice.\ \You do that,\ remarked Johnson, quietly, \also five Other good voices.\ \See here. It's easy for you to sit here and criticise the singing, but we are not going to allow that. You've got to join in. Come on, Johnson.\ \I don't see why we should make idiots of ourselves in the south of France any more than we should in America.\ \But we do in America, dear boy, we do. Always have done it, and we're not going back on our record. Come on, Johnson.\ \I'm just a little tired of that tune, you know.\ \What's the matter with the tune? It's the one Keenan sang all through Siberia. Come on, Johnson.\ But Johnson would not- come on, and so the five set at him and tried to force him to join them. The uniformed man of the station looked on with knitted brows, apparently not knowing whether this was a genuine row or not. Johnson held the fort and sent one after another sprawling. Then one of them desisted, and started down the long platform sing- ing: \There is a tavern in this town.\ l . The French people have given another striking proof of their wealth as well as ' of their confidence in the Government by subscribing for sixteen times the amount of the new loan of nearly §200,000,000. j \It is extremely doubtful,\ observes the New York News, \whether any other na- j tic, in Europe ^t least, could achieve so great a financial victory in existing con- 1 ditions. The farmers and working peo- ; pie of France have taken the loan so ex- tensively that little is left for the banks. . Nowhere else are the masses of the'peo- | pie so ready to intrust their earnings to ' the Government, although the public Sebt of France is already the greatest in _ the world. Those persons who have been accustomed to regard the French nation as approaching financial and po- litical decay may have reason to revise their hasty judgments. The French peo- ple have reason to be proud of their latest financial achievement.\ The others joined him, while Johnson sat serenely on the bench. The official shrugged his shoulders and evidently thought these foreigners were hard to understand. There was a shrill whistle to the west, and the train from Marseilles came rush- ing in. I walked down the long train, opened the door of a compartment that was empty and took my seat. When the train started there was a shout of warn- ing from the guard, and, before I could look out to see what the matter was, the door was flung opsa and one of the sing- ing young men tumbled in. The guard Blammed the door shut with a maledic- tion on the man who broke the rules and nearly broke his neck. The ycung fel- low picked, himself up, lifted his hat and said: \Pardonny moi mouseu—\ \Oh that's all right,\ I answered, \don't mention it. If that is your usual way of getting into a train, you will find yourself ?n a French jail or cut in two on the track some day.\ \Oh you speck English, do you?\ re- plied the young- fellow, ignoring what I said, and seemingly surprised that he had not a monopoly of the language so far south in France. \Yes I can make myself understood in most parts of England and America.\ \Well then, you must hare heard our row with Johnson.\ \About the alleged singing? Yes.\ \Well! We're just laying for old Johnson. You won't give it away, will you?\ \Certainly not.\ 1 'Well, you see it's like this. Johnson's mother was a Prince, and—\ \A princess, you mean.\ \No she belonged to the old Prince family of Boston. Johnson is very proud of that branch of the family, more so than of the Johnson side. His name is J. Prince Johnson. We used to call him Prince at college. He likes that, and that's why we call him Johnson now.\ \I noticed you ran in the name John- son pretty often.\ \Of course we did. Whenever he tries to put on airs we call him Johnson BO often that he gradually tones down. Now, here's the plan we're putting up on old Johnson. I got in here so he wouldn't tumble. By the way, where is the first stop ? Lend me your time book.\ I threw the pamphlet over to him. \Ah he said, \we have half an hour vet. By the way, where are you go- ing?\ \I'm going to Cannes.\ '•We're-going to St. Raphael. That's this side. Better stop off with us and see the fun. It will be worth-while.\ • 'If it's worth while I'll stop. Tell me what it is, first.\ \You wait till I write a telegram.\ After a few mo-nents he handed me a telegram, of whieh this is a translation: Proprietor Hotel of the Monarchs, St. Raphael: At 3 o'clock H. E. H. Prince Johnson will arrive. Provide for him. Have one car- riage at station for t ..* prince and one for his suite. Provide suitable escort. HON. SIR BROWN, Chief of suite, J. K. S., N. I. X, O. K. AC. AC. • \I think I see the plan. You are go- ing to prepare a princely reception for Johnson.\ \Exactly. He is really a quiet, unas- summing fellow and hates anything like a fuss, even if he does put on airs now and then. He'li be the most surprised man you ever saw.\ \I think I can tell you someone else who will be more surprised.\ \Yes? Who?\ \The fellow who has to pay the hotel bill. He laughs best who makes out the bill. You will get the carriages and per- haps the escort and certainly the best rooms In the house, but when the bill comes in it will paralyze you. I know how they charge for that sort of honor. I am a duke'myself.\ \The- dickens you aret Why, I thought you were an American.\ \But I never travel under my tittle, I can't afford it. A duke is all right at home, but on the continent 1 travel as Mr. Welcome Smitb.\ \Well nevertheless I think we will surprise the hotel-keeper as much as we will surprise Johnson.\ \You might do it nearer the frontier, but I doubt if you will be able to evade payment here.\ At this point in the conversation the train stopped and Brown got out to send off his telegram. When he came back into the train he began writing another. \Are you going to send more than one dispatch?\ \Lord yes! I'm going to fire a tele- gram from every place v~e stop at. I'm going to work up St. Raphael. They'll be getting returns from the back coun- ties most of the day. That's an Ameri- can phrase, you know,\ \Oh is it?\ And so the telegrams went from every stopping place until we reached St. Ra- phael. It was evident the moment we stopped that there was an unusual commotion in the little Mediterranean town. The platform was studded with officials in gorgeous uniform. As so>on as Johnson got out of the train we all ranged our- selves behind him and kept our hats off, •while Johnson had his on his head. The eagle eye of the hotel proprietor at once took in the situation and he advanced to- ward the young man, bowing frequently and deeply. \H. R. H. Prince Johnson?\ he in- quired. \Prince Johnson—yes. But. J. is the initial.\ With a wave of his hand the proprietor introduced a gorgeous official, who at once began to read an address of welcome in French. Johnson looked around him in a be- wildered way, as if some one had hit him with a club. \Say boys,\ he gasped, \there is something off the line here. What's the fuss, do you think? Whose funeral i« this, anyhow?'' \Shut up, Prince,\ whispered Brown. *'Go through the thing and let us see what's in it. That's what we came abroad for.\ WJien tlie address was finished John- son thanked the official in a dazed sort of way and then turned to us. \Come boys,\ he said, \let us get out of this as quickly as we can.\ The hotel proprietor walked by ' his side, bowing all the way. When we reached the outside Johnson was aghast. Instead of getting out of it he had just got into it. At a signal from the official the town band struck up the Slarsellaise and the millitia that they had managed to gather together presented arms. The whole populace seemed to be there and they raised a cheer. One carriage had four horses in front of it and the carriage for the suite had two. \Oh this is too much,' ; said Johnson in anguish, as he draw his hand across his brow. \Better get into the carriage and get this over as soon as possible,\ said Brown. \You get in with him, Duke. I guess the' bos3-in ~llie.gqld lace is going, too.\ ^- . We three members of the nobility got into the first carriage. Johnson turned to me, \Are you a Duke?\ he asked. \If you are, I'll bet a dollar all this is for you. It's missed fire in some way.\ ••'They don't usually receive me in this way.\ \Then Srown's put up this job on me. If he has, you bet your life I'll get even with him. I'll slay him. I'll wait until we get into Switzerland and then drop him .gently over a two-mile preci- pice ; see if I don't. SHU, if he lighted on his cheek it wouldn't hurt him. Brown's a villain.\ All the officials of the* hotel were ranged out in two rows to xeneive ns and the people all along the route cheered. Well, we spent a very nice time at St. Raphael. But, just as I said, when the bill was called for, it was a corker. Even Brown turned a shade paler when he saw the appalling total* \Don't you charge for the brass band and the sscorfc? 1 ' ' \It is all inclusive,\ said the pro- prietor, -t;,ith a low bow. \Then we won't have any trouble,\ continued Brown. \You see we travel with 's hotel coupons. We bought them in London. You take them at this hotel. That's why Itelegraphed to you.\ \But said the proprietor indignant- ly, \not for these rooms. You must give me notice when you have 's coupon's.\ \They assured us in London that they were good for the best in the house. You can't give us any better than that, can you?\ The proprietor was wild, but finally the matter was compromised on what the boys considered a square basis, which was much less than the original bill. When we were all in ths railway car- riage boand for Cannes Johnson said: \Browr this thing has been more suc- cessful than you deserve. I'm willing to let by-gou«s be bygones; but there is one thing that you will all have to 1 promise me on your word of honor, and that is that you ivill not let this get into the newspapers at home.\ The boys all gave the desired promise that the affair would be a dead secret. Johnson said to me: \You have no idea what ferreting .yil- lains American newspaper men are. If they get a hint of a thing, the first you know they know all about it. I think we will be lucky it we keep this from them.\ I told him I thought they would be.— Detroit Free Press. A Queer Cable message. Governor Gilpin, of Colorado, had -to pay $147 for one of the first cable rnes-' sages that went over the ocean. • Gilpin was a good-natured fellow, and the probability is that he came into the telegraph office at Denver and wrote out the cable,never thinking it would be sent. It was sent, however, and he had to pay the bill. The first Atlantic cable was completed in 1858, and it was alleged that a dis- patch was received by President Bu- chanan from Queen Victoria' over it. This dispatch, however, was about .all that ever came over it. There was skepticism throughout the United States as to whether the dispatch ever got through, and it was eight years after this before any cable business was done. The successful cable was the new line completed on August 3, 1858. At this time no one seemed to think the cable would work. The \Western Union had sent a corps of operators and explorers to Alaska to build a line across Bearing Straits to Sussia, and when it was an- nounced that the new cable was done and that any one wishing to send dis- patches to Europe for §10 a word couVd do so, the whole world laughed and the telegraph operators looked upon it as a gigantic joke. It was a t this time that a dispatch was received from Denver, Col., signed by the Governor of the Territory, to be forwarded to New York, and addressed to Paris. The dispatch had to be sent from New York to Newfoundland by steamer, and was there-cabled. The dis- patch read: \DENVER Col., Aug. i, 1S56.—To Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor, Tuileries, Paris, France. Please leave Bohemia alone. No interference will be tolerated by this Territory. JOHN GILPIN, Governor.\ The message was looked upon as an expensive joke of Mr. Gilpin's and for- warded to New York. The result was that it was sent to Newfoundland and telegraphed, and Napoleon HI no doubt received it. The price of the cable was~§147 in gold. It seems that Governor Gilpin came into the office, and, on being told there that the cable was completed, dashed off this message and handed it over, never supposing that it would be sent. The probability is that when he found it was sent he paid the bill.— Philadelp7iia Times. A Memory Test. In a Westgrn court, a witness had been detailing, with great minuteness, certain conversations which had occurred several yeai-s before. Again and again the witness testified to names and dates, and precise words, and it became neces- sary for his cross-examiner to break him up. This was done by a very simple device. While the witness was glibly rattling off his testimony, the cross- examiner handed him a law-book and said: \Bead aloud a paragraph from that book.'' \What for?\ inquired the witness. \I will tell you after you have read it,\ said the lawyer, and the wit- ness accordingly read aloud a paragraph of most uninteresting material about lands, appurtenances, and hereditaments. Then the lawyer went \up and asked Mm a few more questions about his memory, and the witness was positive that his memory was very good. Suddenly the lawyer said: \By the way, will you please repeat that .paragraph you just read about lands, appurtenances and hereditmeuts?\ \Why of course I could not do that,\ replied the witness. \You must have a queer memory,\ re- torted the lawyer, \since you can repeat things that you say occurred years ago, and you can not repeat what you read a moment ago.\ The witness was non- plusedV\—• -Argonaut. Nonchalance of a Famous SeaSTfll. At the taking of Moscow, Russia, whild the troops sat in their saddles under a murderous fire, Murat received a dispatch to which an answer was re- quired. Though his mettlesome horse was trembling, Murat laid the reins upon the horn of the saddle, took his note book in one hand and a pencil in the other, and began to write a response. Suddenly a shell fell and exploded on the ground close by. The horse leaped into the air and swung wildly around. Murat simply transferred the pencil to the hand that held the note book, calmed the horse with the other hand, and then went on writing his dispatch as if noth- ing had happened. A shout of admiration went up along the line. Murat saw that the enthusiasm aroused by his trifling act had created a favorable moment for a charge. He gave the order, and his men swept clear through the enemy's line.— Atlanta Gon- utitution. A Powerful Electric Crane. A powerful crane, says the Philadel- phia Record, capable of raising into the air. in response to the touch of an elec- tric button, a locomotive weighing ninety tons has been put in operation at the Baldwin Locomotive Works. The huge engine rides smoothly on a heavy track elevated twenty-eight feet above the level of the floor of the main shop. For- merly the work of raising from the o-round a locomotive in process of con- structing was accomplished with great difficulty by the aid of hydraulic jacks. At present the locomotive, whose wheels or other parts are to be adjusted, is grasped in a wrought iron yoke, and, with surprising ease, lifted in obedience to the engineer's touch into mid air and shifted to any desired position in tlj.e sljojps. A CHAPTER ON BANANAS. A SUBSTITUTE FOB MEAT AND BKBAD I N SOUTH AMERICA. Hills Covered With :Fruit-Bearing Plants—Various Kin.tls of Bananas —Bints on Cooking Them. In South America the banana is not thought of as a luxury. In fact it takes fte place of meat and bread and vege- tables auong a large part of the people. Every garden has its banana patch, just as we have our indispensable rows of potatoes. On the Isthmus of Panama the cars spin past Mils covered from base to summit with the beautiful broad-leaved plants, their great clusters of fruit hang- ing from the stems just under the leaves. The banana plant looks somewhat like an immense calla-lily. Its stem is made np of the bases of the leaves so sheathed, or^olded around each other, and hard- ened as to sustain the weight of the mass of foliage above. It will in some lo- calities attain a height of even twenty feet. When two years old it bears fruit and then dies, but a number of young shoots spring up from the base of ths old stem, so that it continually re- news itself, and the farmer, who is usu- ally an Indian or negro, has no trouble, except to keep the weeds and the old withered trunks cleared away from the growing plants. Even the trunk is of some use, for it contains a fibre almost as soft as silk, which can be woven into the most exquisite muslins. Indeed, some of the dainty India muslins are made of this very fibre. There are as many kinds of bananas as there are kinds of apples—medium sized ones, such as we see in the North; big ones a foot long; thick ones, almost like small muskmelons; and little ones only three or four inches in length. When you visit a fruit stand I fear you are likely to select the biggestand hand- somest bananas you see, and there is just where you make a mistake. The smallest bananas are in nearly all cases the sweet- est and juiciest, the tiny \fig\ banana being the be3t of all. The rind sljould be thin, and there should be no ridges or corners on it. The larger the ridges the coarser the fruit. The plantain, which is the very coarsest kind of banana, has enormous ridges. This species is not fit to eat without being cooked, but when boiled or baked or fried it is delicious. Any coarse banana—that is, one haying a thick rind with large ridges—is good for cooking. All bananas contain starch while green, which upon ripening is changed by nature's wonderful chemistry into sugar. Now if the banana is taken just after its rind has begun to grow golden, but is still streaked with green, it will contain a great deal of starch, which will make it palatable when cooked, while the small amount of sugar which has been formed will give it a sweetness like a sweet potaio.. Strip the rind off, and boil it until soft, and it •will make one of the nicest vegetables you ever ate. If you live fr the country, where you are blessed with the 1-sxury of an open wood fire, try roasting- some peeled half ripened bananas in the abhos, as you dp potatoes, and see how savory a morsel they make. It is one of the com- monest sights along the Amazon to see groups of half-chid Indian men and wo- men squatting around little camp-fires Toasting bananas, and having endless mirth trying to pick them out ot the hot coals without burning their fingers. We are all used to fried bananas, but we are prone to forget that for this purpose they should not be fully ripe, as that makes them tco soft and too sweet. Above all, a banana roasted or fried should be served hot, for as soon as it becomes cold it grows tough and unpalatable. This fruit, which is the greatest of all tropical foods, comes to us chiefly from Panama and the West Indies in great ship loads, and in the banana market in New York the big green bunches^— \heads\ they all call them in South America, just as we speak of heads'of •cabbage—containing from five to ten dozen each, can be bought for a dollar or two dollars and fifty cents, according to the variety. They are not so expensivo, after all, acd a big green bunch hung in a cool cellar will ripen gradually, so as to furnish a fresh dozen of ripe ones each day until the whole bunch is gone. In this way you can. enjoy your bananas just as they do in the-land of palms, for even there they cut them while green, and allow them to ripen as we do in the NSB' Young People. EnrieA Wood. ' *--_ To find partly decomposed wood or even that in a good state of preservation one or several hundred feet below the present surface of the • land is such a common occurrence that it is no longer considered at all curious or wonderful. All the coal veins of the world are made •up of vegetable matter and must have required immense forests to furnish the material for some of the thickest veins. In the lignite veins o,f the Western States large blocks of wood are some- times found, and these scarcely changed in color or appearance since buried, no one knows how many thousands of years ago. The earth's surface has un- dergone many changes. Some of the mountains were once under the sea, and probably large areas of the present ocean beds were ranges Oi mountains, but it is scarcely possible to employ our mode of reckon>ime to vast geological periods, — New York Sun. The Story of an Egg- During the month of December, Mr. Boyd, of La Grange, Ga., employed a boy to cut down one of the giant oaks in the grove at his place, known as the Cline place, for firewood. In the center of the tree about four feet from tne ground was found a fresh hen's egg, em- beddedSin the solid wood, there being no hollow or hole of any kind that the eyes of the astonished beholders could dis- cern, for any one to place the egg—only space enough to hold it, as a bullet mould holds the bullet when closed. Tho tree was a little dotted around the egg. Now who can solve the wonderful freak? Attctnfa Constitution, \ JOHN D. WHITE, Attorney and Counselor at Law AND N0TAB.Y PUBLIC. 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