the raisins are put into sweat boxes ready to be taken to the
packing-house, where they are weighed. The loose raisins are set
apart from the choice clusters, and are placed in a stemmer, which
is worked by machinery, and which throws out the stems and any
refuse matter. The clusters and layer raisins are pressed in forms
and placed in the boxes, layer by layer. Paper is spread between
each layer. Ribbons and beautiful chromos serve to give the final
finish, and the dainty boxes of fruit are sent away by the car-load
all over the United States.
At one time raisins were a source of great profit, but now
vineyards have become more extensive, and as there is a greater
supply of raisins prices have been much lower.
BESSIE M. ROBERTS.
HANFORD, KINGS CO., CAL.
[Illustration: THE CAMERA CLUB]
Any questions in regard to photograph matters will be willingly
answered by the Editor of this column, and we should be glad to
hear from any of our club who can make helpful suggestions.
Sir Knight Willis H. Kerr sends the following formula for fogged plates,
which he thinks the Camera Club will appreciate: Bromine water, 50 cc.;
tincture of iodine, 20 cc.; distilled water, 1 litre. After immersing
the plates in this solution for two or three minutes they should be
washed and dried. If the plate has been only partially exposed to light,
it should be exposed to lamp-light in order to make the fog impression
uniform. The plates must be immersed in the solution by red light and
tried in a dark room.
Sir Knight H. J. Maccoy asks how to print pictures from a negative where
the glass is broken, but the film is not. If there is one clear break
across the glass place the negative in the printing-frame, pushing the
broken edges closely together, holding them firmly while adjusting the
sensitive paper. Place the negative at such an angle with the light that
the crack will not make a shadow on the paper, and print in the shade.
If there are several cracks in the glass put the negative in the
printing-frame, supporting it with a piece of plain glass; tie cords to
the printing-frame so that it may be suspended by them, hang the frame
from some projection where it will not hit anything, and keep it
revolving during the printing. By keeping the plate moving all the time
the cracks in the glass do not cast a shadow long enough in one place to
leave any impression on the sensitive paper.
A correspondent sends us an envelope which he uses for storing purposes.
The envelope is not as convenient as the commercial envelope made
specially for negatives, for it has a flap and opens at the side,
whereas the manila envelope opens at the end, has no flap, and there is
a small crescent cut in the edge, which makes it convenient to remove
the plate from the envelope. The open end of the envelope should be
placed at the back of the pigeon-hole, both for preservation of the
negative and to keep it free from dust.
[Illustration: THE PUDDING STICK]
This Department is conducted in the interest of Girls and Young
Women, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question on the
subject so far as possible. Correspondents should address Editor.
I am sorry, dear Mildred and Nancy, that you and I have so very
different an opinion on the subject of punctuality. You say, scornfully,
"What does it matter about five minutes, or three minutes, and our
teacher makes just as much fuss when we are two or three minutes tardy
as if we were an hour late?"
Suppose you were going to Montreal to visit Aunt Katharine and your
cousins, and you were to meet Uncle Leo and Cousin Margaret at quarter
to eight o'clock. Don't you think Uncle Leo would be annoyed if you
should fail to keep the appointment to the very minute, and what about
the rail-way train in the case? For a traveller going anywhere on a boat
or in the cars must be punctual to an instant, or he will be left. We
find that very unpunctual people can accommodate themselves to the ways
of trains in this particular.
We have no right to waste our own time, girls, and certainly we have no
right to waste that of other people. To do so is most thoughtless and
unkind. If you are in a class, your unpunctuality may inconvenience and
disturb all the others, and very much annoy your teacher. If you are on
a committee, and come late to the place of meeting, you throw every one
else out of her orbit. People have many engagements in a single day.
They can keep none of them to advantage if they are hindered by the
careless person who does not keep hers conscientiously.
This whole matter of keeping engagements is one in which you must
establish good habits. Never promise to go anywhere, or do anything, to
make a visit, or take a table at a fair, or help a friend who needs
assistance, and then break your word. A girl's word is a sacred thing.
If it is only to sit for an hour with an older friend, or to take
luncheon and a walk with Jenny on Saturday, or to write a letter for the
cook, who cannot write her letter for herself, keep your word and be on
time. Nothing else is worthy such a girl as the one I have in my mind
while I write, so clever and sensible, and, in the main, so satisfactory
that I cannot bear her to have even one little flaw. I don't want to
think of her as one of those people who come hustling into church and
Sunday-school ten minutes late, and who disturb everybody else in places
of amusement by the same habit. And I cannot imagine one of my girls as,
by-and-by, going anywhere late to dinner, a most grievous social fault.
[Illustration: Signature]
ADVERTISEMENTS.
The
Columbia
Bicycle
Pad Calendar
For 1896
[Illustration]
YOU NEED IT.
A Desk Calendar is a necessity--most convenient kind of storehouse for
memoranda. The Columbia Desk Calendar is brightest and handsomest of
all--full of dainty pen sketches and entertaining thoughts on outdoor
exercise and sport. Occasionally reminds you of the superb quality of
Columbia Bicycles and of your need of one. You won't object to that, of
course. The Calendar will be mailed for five 2-cent stamps.
Address Calendar Department,
POPE MANUFACTURING CO.,
HARTFORD, CONN.
[Illustration]
There are monarchs, there are monarchs,
Men of every clime and hue.
From the Czar of all the Russias
To the Prince of Timbuctoo;
Monarchs good and monarchs famous,
Monarchs short and monarchs tall;
But the _best_ is _our_ Monarch--
It's the Monarch of them all.
Monarch
King of Bicycles--A Marvel of
Strength, Speed and Reliability.
4 models. $80 and $100, fully guaranteed. For children and adults who
want a lower price wheel the _Defiance_ is made in 8 models, $40 to $75.
Send for Monarch book.
[Illustration]
MONARCH CYCLE
MFG. CO.,
Lake, Halsted and
Fulton Sts., CHICAGO.
83 Reade Street,
New York.
JOSEPH GILLOTT'S
STEEL PENS
Nos. 303, 404, 170, 604 E.F., 601 E.F.
And other styles to suit all hands.
THE MOST PERFECT OF PENS.
Postage Stamps, &c.
50%
Commission on _Approval Sheets_, 1000 Mixed Stamps, 15c.
P. G. BEALS, Brookline, Mass.
[Illustration]
=STAMPS!= 800 fine mixed Victoria, Cape of G. H., India, Japan, etc., with
fine Stamp Album, only =10c.= New 80-p. Price-list free. _Agents wanted_
at =50%= commission. STANDARD STAMP CO., 4 Nicholson Place, St. Louis, Mo.
Old U. S. and Confederate Stamps bought.
STAMP COLLECTORS!
12 South America, 9c.; 15 Mexico and Central America, 10c.; 18 West
Indian, 10c.; 15 Australia, 12c.; 16 Asia, 10c. Large monthly price-list
free. Approval Sheet agents wanted; 50% com. and prizes given. C. W.
GREVNING, Morristown, N.J.
[Illustration]
100 all dif. Venezuela, Bolivia, etc., only 10c.; 200 all dif. Hayti,
Hawaii, etc., only 50c. Ag'ts w't'd at 50% com. List FREE! =C. A.
Stegmann=, 5941 Cote Brilliante Ave., St. Louis, Mo
300
STAMPS FOR $1.00, all different, some quite rare.
KEUTGEN BROTHERS, 322 Broadway, N. Y.
310
foreign Bolivia, etc., 10c.; 100 different China, etc., 10c. Finest
approval sheet, at 50%. Agents wanted. Large price-list, free. SHAW
STAMP CO., Jackson, Mich.
STAMPS! 100 all dif. Barbados, etc. Only 10c. Ag'ts w't'd at 50% com.
List free. L. DOVER & CO., 1469 Hodiamont, St. Louis, Mo.
STAMPS. Approval sheets. Agents wanted; 50% com.
G. D. Holt & Co., 155 Pulaski St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
112
FOREIGN STAMPS. Liberia, Obock, Macao, etc., 6 cts. H. L. Ashfield, 707
Prospect Ave., N. Y.
=BOOKS OF STAMPS= at 33-1/3 per cent. commission. References required.
MODEL STAMP CO., W. Superior, Wis.
FREE.
Comic return envelopes. Sleight of Hand exposed. List Of 500 gifts.
Album of cards. Send 2c. stamp for postage. Address Banner Card Co.,
Cadiz, Ohio.
BAKER
sells recitations and PLAYS
23 Winter St., Boston
CATALOGUES FREE.
CARDS
The FINEST SAMPLES BOOK of Gold Beveled Edge, Hidden Name, Silk Fringe,
Envelope and Calling Cards ever offered for a 2 cent stamp. These are
GENUINE CARDS, NOT TRASH. UNION CARD CO., COLUMBUS, OHIO.
[Illustration]
[Illustration: BICYCLING]
[Illustration: Copyright, 1895, by Harper & Brothers.]
On leaving York, to continue the journey to Washington by the route
which we are going, the rider turns south and westward on what is known
as the York and Gettysburg Turnpike. The road is direct to Thomasville,
about six miles away, with the exception of three forks. These should be
carefully watched, and the rider should in his inquiries always ask for
the York and Gettysburg Turnpike. The first fork is something less than
a mile out from York, a few minutes after crossing the railroad track.
Here the rider should keep to the left. He again takes the left fork a
short two miles further on, and about a mile or more before reaching
Thomasville, at the junction of three roads, he keeps to the right on
the turnpike. From Thomasville to Hockstown, a distance of about three
miles, the turnpike is unmistakable. By referring to the map at
Hockstown, the reader will see that the main route turns sharp to the
right, running over to East Berlin, a distance of three or three and a
half miles. It is possible to follow the turnpike to Gettysburg as
indicated on the map by the fair bicycle road, but the route to East
Berlin is much better. From East Berlin run on to Abbottstown. At this
point the rider must make up his mind whether he will make a detour of
some miles and take in the field of Gettysburg. If there is time enough,
you are earnestly urged to make the extra run, since there is much at
Gettysburg which is interesting to the student of American history.
Leaving Abbottstown, run out to New Oxford on the York and Gettysburg
Turnpike. The road is unmistakable, and from this point to Gettysburg,
through Granite Hill, the turnpike is most of the time near the
railroad, so that it is easy to follow it. Gettysburg will be a good
place for dinner; it is more than half-way to Westminster, and an hour
or two can be very profitably spent in the vicinity of the town in
seeing what there is to be seen. From Gettysburg follow the route to
Germantown, and thence to Littlestown. At Littlestown the rider again
joins the main bicycle route from York to Westminster, and proceeds
thence into Westminster.
[Illustration: STAMPS]
This Department is conducted in the interest of stamp and coin
collectors, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question
on these subjects so far as possible. Correspondents should address
Editor Stamp Department.
In the ROUND TABLE, December 17, 1895, I gave a list of prices _asked by
dealers_ for all United States coins of the following denominations:
Half-cent, large cent, small cent, two cents, three cents (nickel), five
cents (nickel), three cents (silver), five cents (silver), dimes, and
twenty-cent pieces. The list is completed in this Number, and I hope
readers of the ROUND TABLE will keep the list, as it will save many
questions. The prices quoted are asked for fair copies of the older
dates, and nearly perfect copies of the later dates. The later coins can
usually be found in general circulation at face.
QUARTER-DOLLARS.--1796, $2.50; 1804, $2.50; 1805, 1806, 1807, 50c. each;
1815, $1; 1818 to 1822, 75c. each; 1823, $75; 1824, $2; 1825, $1.50;
1827, $50; 1828, 75c.; 1831 to 1851, 50c. each; 1852, 75c.; 1853
(without rays), $10; 1853 (rays on rev.), 35c.; 1854 to 1862, 50c. each;
1863, 1864, 1865, $1 each; 1866, $10; 1866 (in God We Trust), $1; 1867,
$1; 1868, $1; 1869, 75c.; 1870 to 1893 (Liberty), 50c. each; 1893
(Isabella), $2; 1894, 50c.; 1895, 50c.
HALF-DOLLARS.--1794, $4; 1795, $1.25; 1795 (three leaves), $4; 1796,
$75; 1797, $75; 1801, $3; 1802, $4; 1803, $1; 1805, $1; 1805 (over
1804), $2; 1806 to 1814, 75c. each; 1815, $4; 1817 to 1836, 75c. each;
1836 (milled edge), $4; new style, $2; 1837 to 1850, 75c. each; 1851,
$1; 1852, $2.50; 1853 to 1861, 75c. each; 1861 (Confed. rev. restrike),
$5; 1862 to 1865, $1 each; 1866, $1.50; 1866 (in God We Trust), $1.25;
1867, $1.25; 1868, 1869, $1 each; 1870, 1871, 1872, 75c. each; 1873 (no
darts), $1.50; 1873 (with darts), 75c.; 1874 to 1878, 75c. each; 1879 to
1891, $1 each; 1892 to 1895, 75c. each. Columbian.--1892 (Columbus),
75c.; 1893, 75c.
DOLLARS.--1794, $100; 1795 (flowing hair), $3; 1795 (fillet head),
$3.50; 1796, $4; 1797, $4; 1798 (13 stars, small eagle), $5; 1798 (15
stars, small eagle), $6; 1798 (13 stars, spread eagle), $2.50; 1799
(5-star facing), $4; 1799 (6-star facing), $2; 1799 (over 1798), $3;
1800, $2; 1801, $3.50; 1802 (over 1801),$2.75; 1802, $3; 1803, $3.50;
1803 (italic 3), $4; 1804, $500; 1836, $10; 1838, $50; 1839, $60; 1840
to 1850, $2 each; 1851, $50; 1852, $75; 1853, $2.50; 1854, $5; 1855, $3;
1856, $2.50; 1857, $2.75; 1858, $50; 1859 to 1869, $2.50 each; 1870,
1871, 1872, $2; 1873, $2.50; 1878 to 1894, $1.50 each. Trade
dollars.--1873, $2; 1874 to 1883, $1.50 each.
GOLD COIN.--Dollars, $1.50 to $10; quarter-eagles, $3 to $10;
three-dollar pieces, $3.50 to $5; half-eagles, 1795 to 1828, from $8 up,
except 1815, $500, and 1824, $150; eagles, 1795 to 1804, from $12 up;
later dates at a small advance over face; double eagle, 1849, $500.
W. SANDERS.--The 1838 cent is worth 5 cents. The 1839 cent, stamped
over the date 1836, is worth $6.
F. H. HARRIS.--The U. S. revenues mentioned are worth from 1 cent
to 5 cents each if perforated; if unperforated, they are worth from
5 cents to $1 each. The U. S. 12 cent 1861 is worth 25 cents.
MARY FITHIAN.--For value of dollars see above.
[Illustration: Ivory Soap]
No other soap is found in so many homes.
THE PROCTER & GAMBLE CO., CIN'TI.
GEO. F. CRANE,
90 Nassau St.,
NEW YORK,
will pay cash for collection or scarce stamps.
[Illustration]
Books by Thomas W. Knox
* * * * *
THE "BOY TRAVELLERS" SERIES
Copiously Illustrated. Square 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $3.00 per volume.
ADVENTURES OF TWO YOUTHS--
IN THE LEVANT.
IN SOUTHERN EUROPE.
IN CENTRAL EUROPE.
IN NORTHERN EUROPE.
IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
IN MEXICO.
IN AUSTRALASIA.
ON THE CONGO.
IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE.
IN SOUTH AMERICA.
IN CENTRAL AFRICA.
IN EGYPT AND PALESTINE.
IN CEYLON AND INDIA.
IN SIAM AND JAVA.
IN JAPAN AND CHINA.
_OTHER BOOKS BY COLONEL KNOX:_
Hunting Adventures on Land and Sea
2 vols. Copiously Illustrated. Square 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $2.50
each.
THE YOUNG NIMRODS IN NORTH AMERICA.
THE YOUNG NIMRODS AROUND THE WORLD.
* * * * *
There is, perhaps, no way in which young readers can become so truly
familiarized with a country, in all its resources and capabilities, as
by these books of Mr. Knox's.--_Boston Traveller._
Mr. Knox's pictures of mountains and rivers, forests and plains, of
people and their customs, modes of life and government, can be marked as
accurate. They are not fancy sketches, but actual facts gathered from
personal observation and from reliable data.--_Chicago Inter-Ocean._
Boy readers have their own favorite authors, and among them Colonel Knox
stands in a foremost place. He is a master of the art of adding to the
solid facts of geography and history the leaven of boyish imagination,
which makes the acquirement of information so agreeable to the mind in
its formation period.--_Philadelphia Inquirer._
* * * * *
Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York
[Illustration: AN IMPERTINENT SPARROW.]
"ON, KINGFISHER, HOW FARES YOUR QUEEN?
THE QUEENFISHER, OF COURSE, I MEAN."
* * * * *
THE MAIN DIFFERENCE.
"Jack the Giant-killer was a very different sort of a person from Jack
of the Bean-stalk," said Wilbur. "One raised beans, but the other raised
thunder."
* * * * *
CAUGHT IN THE ACT.
"I'm goin' to tell my pa on you," said Johnny Smithers, as the
blacksmith pared some of the bone away from the horse's hoof.
"Why? What have I done?" asked the blacksmith.
"You 'ain't got shoes to fit Dobbin, an' you're whittlin' off his feet
to suit those you have got."
* * * * *
I love to read of Indian fights--
Fights big and rough and bloody,
When they are told in story-books--
Not in the books I study.
* * * * *
LIKED THE NEW WAY BEST.
"I don't see what's the use of my bothering my head learning to write,"
quoth Tom. "It's a great deal more fun using a typewriter, and you don't
get your clothes all over ink."
* * * * *
DIDN'T CARE FOR THAT KIND.
"How's the ice?" cried Jack.
"Like glass," said Willie.
"Then I'm going home," said Jack. "Glass isn't any good to skate on."
* * * * *
PAPA. "Your teacher sent me word saying that you failed in your spelling
lesson to-day. What was the cause of this?"
JACK. "I guess, papa, I was spell-bound."
* * * * *
THE VERY BEST ZOO OF ALL.
When daddy's made our bread for us, and comes back home at night,
We often have a lot of fun at playing pillow fight;
And sometimes when he's not too tired, and isn't feeling blue,
He'll get down on the floor with me, and play that he's a zoo.
He'll roar and growl and shake his head as if he were a bear,
And do it so it really gives my nerves a little scare;
And then I climb in mamma's lap, where I'll be safe and sound,
And listen to his growling as he ambles all around.
Then on a sudden he will change into a tiger bold,
And make believe to bite my feet until my blood runs cold,
But when he turns himself into a great long-necked giraffe,
And nibbles at the chandelier, oh my, how I do laugh!
And then he takes his collar off and stretches out his throat,
And shoves a sofa pillow up his back beneath his coat,
And cries, "Come see the camel now, come watch him prance and jump!
And don't forget to fix your eye upon that massive hump!"
But best of all the game is when he gets down on all-fours,
And 'tends that he's an elephant, and walks out through the doors
In search of peanuts, peering round on each and every side,
For then I get aboard his back and have a jolly ride.
I've been to lots of circuses--I go 'most every year,
And see real zoos of every kind from lands both far and near;
But never did I see a zoo so really out of sight
As that that my dear daddy is, when he comes home at night.
GASTON V. DRAKE.
* * * * *
Hibernating
[Illustration]
Said the little Jap doll on the mantel,
Addressing an art-loving bear
Who was whittled from wood by a Swiss lad,
"You're bearish enough, I declare!"
"You keep your back turned ever toward me
Nor care if I laugh or I weep!"
The little wood bear never answered
--'Twas winter and he was asleep.
End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Round Table, January 14, 1896, by Various