The Newark Journal.
O F. CRAIG, Kdltor.
Newark- - , Arkansas!
ROMANCE OF THE PAPACY.
Secrets of the Vatican That Have
Reached Public Knowledge.
Ah a rule the secrets of the
Vatican are well kept and most
of the stories that are told apro
pos of the new pope must he taken
with a grain of salt. Now and
again, however, something of the
romance of the papacy really
leaks out, though not through the
cardinals. There was, for exam
ple, says an exchange, the strange
ease of Pope Pius IX., pretty
well known a generation ago, hut
now almost forgotten. In his
younger days, when he was fount
Master Ferrati and a layman lie
met and fell in love with Miss Fos
ter, daughter of the Irish Protest
ant bishop of Kilmore, who was
living in Italy with her sister,
Mine. Pe Salis. Miss Foster fa
vored the young count, hut Mine.
Pe Salis drove the lover away.
Afterward she relented, the count,
returned and the wedding day
was lixed. On the appointed day
the bride and her friends were at
the church, but no bridegroom ap
peared and Count Mastai Ferrati
was never seen again. Years
f afterward Miss Foster went to
If see Pope Pius IX. and was aston
■’ ished to recognize in the pontiff
her old flame the count.
The most sensational novelist
could not have invented a {dot
more fascinating than the real
story of Pope Leo’s predecessor.
Mine, l)e Salis had made an un
happy marriage with an Italian,
and her parents, fearing a similar
fate for the younger daughter,
made her promise to guard Miss
Foster against a union with a for
eigner, hence her interference to
separate the lovers; it was only
when her sister pined away that
Mine. l)e Salis relented. The dis
apjiearance of the count had quite
a flavor of Dumas about it. Un
known to his fiancee he was bound
to the Jesuits, and his sujieriors
in the order peremptorily sent
him away on a mission to prevent
his marriage with an English
woman and a Protestant. Let
ters were intercepted and hi* was
led to believe that she had mar
ried another, so he took orders
and rapidly rose to be bishop,
then cardinal and eventually
pojH*. Then in the height of his
grandeur he was brought face to
face with the woman lie had loved
and lost. Nothing more dramatic
has ever been staged.
DRAINING THE ZUYDER ZEE
Daring and Picturesque Engineering
Project of the Dutch.
The Dutch people propose to re
claim the whole of the Zuyder Zee
from the grasp of the ocean, says
Walter Wellman, in McClure’s.
It is a vast, a daring, project, the
most picturesque engineering en
terprise known to the world to
day. An isthmian canal may cost
more money; hut an isthmian
canal is, after all, only a great
ditch. While other nations are
seeking colonial expansion the
Dutch propose to create a hinter
land at home. They propose to
reclaim from the waters an area
equal to one-fourteenth of all the
present Holland. They propose to
add nearly one-tenth to the area
of cultivable land in their coun
try. They propose to find new
homes, where now the sea rages,
for a population equal to four per
cent, of all the inhabitants of the
Netherlands. In the United
States an enterprise of relative
proportions would involve the
creation of a new state like Mis
souri or Texas, the reclamation of
land enough for more than three
millions of people to live upon
and thrive by agriculture.
Emblematic.
A large bronze cage with one
wing broken and dropped is to be
the chief feature of the French
monument on the lield of Wa
ter loo.
PROFIT IN MUSHROOMS.
A Good Cellar the Best Place for a
Profitable Bed.
Mushroom growing is one of
the latest fads that has struck
Washington, says a Washington
letter, and interesting stories are
told of the financial results of this
peculiar kind of farming. It ap
pears that there is a large de
mand for mushrooms, which will
increase as the people come back
from the seashore and mountains
and take up their burden of enter
taining in their homes.
The fact is a course dinner is
not usually complete without
mushrooms in some form, and the
marketmen are sometimes driven
to their wits’ ends to supply the
demand. Numerous private grow
ers of mushrooms have lately met
with good success, if the stories
I told around Center market are to
be believed.
The abandoned vatsof a brewing
establishment in the northwest
section are reported to have been
transformed into beds for mush
room growing with almost as good
profits as were formerly realized
from the beer. Several have
made use of their backyards for
the purpose with satisfactory re
sults. The mushrooms are easily
grown, the yield is prolific, and
their sale is good.
According to the figures given
by a dealer in tin* market, a 15
foot bed will grow about DO pecks
of marketable mushrooms. The
cost of the bed is about The
growers receive 75 cents a peck
for the best, and (50 cents a peck
for the second grade, the size and
quality determining the price.
He figured out that three women
of his acquaintance were clearing
each about $55 a month out of
mushrooms grown in the cellars
of their homes.
The marketman said a good
cellar was the best place to raise
mushrooms. He said the things
necessary to success were few.
First the cellar in which they are
to bo grown must lx* kept at a
temperature of about (55 degrees,
and should be well ventilated,and
arrangements should be made to
have the soil moist.
Good manure, rich in plios
pliate, must be used to form the
foundation of the bed, which will
be built preferably upon a dirt
floor. Two loads will be necessary
for a bed 15 feet long. The mush
room spawn can be procured in
the shape of bricks from tin* flor
ists and nurserymen. The tern
perature of the bed must be test
ed, and no planting must be done
until it is below 05 degrees. Then
the bricks can be broken in half
inch pieces and distributed evenly
over tin* bed.
THE UNBIDDEN POET.
Not Discouraged Even by Repeated
Rejections of His Manuscripts.
The unbidden poet is a source of
much wonderment in every news
paper office. As a general thing,
he possesses not the slightest
knowledge of the rules governing
metrical composition. His spell
ing is bad. his pronunciation is
worse, his sense of words that
rhyme is defective, and he has no
soul above the commonplace.
And yet he deludes himself with
the idea that he is a poet, says the
Philadelphia Record. No amount
of discouragement will turn him
from his mistaken course. He
persists with a dogged determin
ation which, if directed into some
more practical channel, would be
altogether admirable. The yawn
ing waste-basket seems to have
no terrors for him. He is general
ly the most prolific in the spring,
when, we are told, tin* young
man's fancy lightly turns to
thoughts of love; but any public
event of more than ordinary im
portance will stir his muse and
cause it to ferment. During the
international yacht races, for in
stance, the Record was in receipt
of over 100 alleged poems on the
subject, and this state of affairs
probably prevailed in other news
paper offices. During the last
five years one of these would-be
poets has contributed fully 500
verses to the Record without ever
having had one published. And
yet he is not discouraged.
Artistic Workmanship in Glass.
One of the greatest artistic
marvels of the world is to be seen
in the museum at Harvard Pnver
sity. This curiosity consists of
hundreds of specimens of flowers
and plants formed of glass, but
with such exquisite fidelity to na
ture that they appear to be real,
every tint and marking, every t ini
est detail, being faithfully repro
duced. They are made by a se
cret process, the artists being a
father and son in Germany, who,
it is said, may let their secret die
with them. As an instance of the
wonderful workmanship it may
be mentioned that (he very hairs
which appear on the stems on cer
tain plants are reproduced on the
glass imitations.
ITCHING NOSE A PERIL.
Victim ot Hoad Agent* Wanted to
Scratch, lint Wa* Made to
Smell of a tin a.
Ex-Congressman Hell used to tell a story
of a time when he once got into grate
peril on account of his nose. He was going
to Leadville in the early days on a stage
coach which was held up by highwaymen.
| The passengers were ranged in a row out
side with their hands up, the familiar at
titude being enforced by a gun in the
i hands of one of the gentlemen of the road,
while the other went through the various
pockets at his leisure.
In the midst ot the ceremony Mr. Hell's
nose began to itch with that maddening
persistency calculated to drive to insanity
i or tin grave if not relieved. Involuntarily
bis right hand began to lower itself to the
seal of troubles.
"Hands up there!” called the man be
hind the gun, sternly.
His hand shot back into place, but in a
moment began to lower itself again.
"V. hat's the matter with your" inquired
the b .ndit “Are you anxious to become a
lead mine?”
".My nose itches so I can't stand it any
longer," said Mr. Bell. “I’ve simply got
to scratch it."
“No, you hain't,” replied the agent, “be
cause I'll do it for you.”
\\ itb which he proceeded to scratch the
prospective congressional nose with the
muzzle of his shotgun.
Enterprise and Caution.
“I shall get there,” quoth Enterprise,
conlidently.
“Where?” asked Caution. J
Here Enterprise bestowed a withering
look upon her laggard sister.
“As to that 1 know nothing." she re
plied. haughtily, "further than that when
i 1 get there it will be somewhere else."—
Detroit Free Press.
She U ns I.nckr.
“Yesterday was a mighty lucky day for
Miss Prettygirl.”
"Why?”
“1 proposed to her and she accepted
me.”
“Yes. people are usually considered lucky
when they have got a soft thing.”—Hous
ton Host.
-—
The Mellriile Cnse Annin.
St. John, Kan., Oct. 26.—Mr. and Mrs
William McBride and Jesse L. Limes, M.
P., have gone before Mr. George L.
Alocrc. Notar\ Public, and have sworn
and subscribed to written statements con
firming the story of the awful illness and
subsequent cure of the little son of Mr.
and Mrs. McBride.
Dr Limes is particularly emphatic in
his statement, and there does not now
seem to be any room for doubt as to the
fact that Dodd's Kidney Pills, and noth
ing: else, saved the little boy.
lie was so bad that he had Epileptic
spells which seized him with increasing
frequency. He was semi paralyzed in the
right side, and his mind was badly af
fected.
In their sworn statement, Mr. and Mrs.
McBride say:
"The very day we began to use Dodd’s
Kidney l’ilts our boy had twenty-seven of
i these Epileptic spells or fits. In less than
a week lie ceased having them entirely.”j
The case has caused a great sensation
in the neighborhood. The sworn state
ments have confirmed the whole story.
j “Doesn’t the odor of burning leaves
make you sick?” asked Jinks. "Oh. no,” !
! replied Junks, "I sinoke Turk’sh cigarettes, !
you know.”—-Cincinnati Times-Star.
A dumb-waiter can't talk, but neither, '
for th.it matter, can a speaKing-tube.— j
Philadelphia Record.
Y'outh of the IVodd
By PROF. LUIGI LUZZATTI,
Three Times Minister of the Italian Treasury.
IE United States is, to quote the words of Lucretius,
“the blooming youth of the world.” There the char
acteristics of all the better European races are fused
together, and connected with the bond of liberty and
democracy.
The result is a nation which, from the economic
point of view, possesses the initiative skill of the Ger
mans and English, and a territory vaster than the
whole of Europe, with all the advantages of diversity of climate and
rich mineral resources, bound together by more miles of railway than
the whole of Europe can boast. The United States of America have
drawn from the protective system applied to industries nearly all the
advantages possible to a nation which has never allowed itself to slum
ber on the pleasant road of high customs, but with its usual marvelous
activity seeks by degrees to suppress them entirely.
With the frankness of almost unlimited power, the United States
now declares its intention to make commercial treaties, especially with
those states of Europe which will maintain reciprocity of tariffs, and.
feeling themselves formidable, they are negotiating the diminution of
those duties which they find no longer necessary. It is evident that
Europe ought to receive amicably and to examine thoroughly the ef
fects of these new tactics, so much the more because the duties on
American produce being reduced, the trusts will become invincible as
competitors, and the United States, already rulers of the agricultural
market, and preparing to become the bankers of Europe, even through
the excess of their exports over their imports, will also rule the industrial
market.
All this may be inevitable, and in that case the United Ffates in
spite of all foresight, with regard to commercial policy, will take the
highest rank among nations.
The greatness of America is founded, not only on her trade and
means of transport, as was the case with Holland and Venice when
they had created a supremacy of maritime power, both naval and mer
cantile. but on her vast productiveness and her people, which are a selec
tion from European races set in a more propitious atmosphere.
Ascum—“I read in the financial news
this morning that ‘money is easier’ now.
W'nat on earth does that mean?” Broke
lt.jtsh_“Pei'hapH it means that it ‘goes
easier.’ I'm sure 1 don't find that it comes
anv easier."—Philadelphia Press.
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