RATES OF APVERTtSIHO. One Sqnara, en Inch, on ineertlos 1 0 On Square, on Incb, en month IN On Rqnare, on Inch, thr month. 100 One Sqmre, on Incb, one year 10 M To Sqnaree, on year UN Quarter Column, on year HM Hair Column, on year KM On Colnmn, one rear 10 00 Leal advertisement tea cent per 111 acb la oertlon. Marriage and death notice! gratia. All bill, for yearly adrertlMment enHeeted quar terly. Temporary adrertlaementa Butt b. paid la advance. Job work caah en delivery. THE FOREST REPUBLICAN If publish, d rr j Wdnedaj, kf J. E. WENK. Offlo In Bmearbaugh & Co.'a Building X1M BTRKET, TIONK8TA, r. Term, ... tl.BO ptrTnr, He inbacrlpttoni received foi a shorter period than three months. Oorreepondenco .ollelted from all parte of the tnnritry. No nolle will bo taken of uoajmoai nwiuualcoliow. Forest Republican. VOL. XXIII. NO. 4. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1890. S1.50 PEIl ANNUM. Tliu petroleum supply of Pennsylvania looms to bo inexhaustible. During February 478 now wells wore opened, adding 10,459 barrels daily to tho yield Cif tlio oil regions. A method of transmitting sketches by telegraph has been devised. The fugitive from justice will now find his path trown with" obstacles, for his portrait can bo sent to any number of points along his lino of travel. 801110 0110 ha? figured that thero are in Denver, Col., thirty-one millionaires whoso aggregate wealth is $10, 500, 00(1, and thirty-live acini-millionaires whose wealth aggregates $17,500,000, making In all $64,000,000 owned by sixty-six men. Kight cotton factories, sixteen banks and various other enterprises have been Btiuted in South Carolina within year. Corporations chartered betweou October, 3SHS, and October, 1889, num ber eighty-two, with 1111 aggregate capital of over $11,000,000. Tho moral of this story 1.1 obvious Robert Williams, of Woods County, Ohio, was told not to go down into nn old well without lowering 11 candle to see if thero was foul gas there. As it was his wife who warned him ho threw club nt her, told her to mind her own business and went dowu, to be hauled up a corpse. According to tho Jacksonville (Fla.) Tinut-Union, 0110 fisherman of that city catches 400 pounds of catfish 11 day which ue sens 10 ucaiers, who, 111 tlieir turn ship tho meat to Northern hotels as bass and ahcepsheud, first cutting off heads and fins to prevent identification. The catfish is a disgusting scavenger, the bur. zard of tho waters. But it differ.! so materially from tho other fishes nimicd, la outward appearance, that no ouo should bo deceived. A novel operation has been performed in tho Edinburgh (Scotland) Infirmary. A fanner was suffcriug from a diseased leg bouc, induced by an accident. On medical advice ho went to tho infirmary and was put under tho caro of tho sur geon, who determined to remove the dis eased portion and substitute an ox rib Tho operation was performed, and it has been so successful that tho man will be about again shortly with a limb as strong and healthy as ever. "In the competition of intelligence and mauual skill," says tho New York Time, 'tho old-fashioned fanner is beiten and driven out of business or forced to cn:i grate to new fields where tho virgin soil will given sullicieut return to afford sub sistence for a few years and until the siutu pressure pushes him still further to tho trout. This is the explanation of tho fact that so many men crowd to every opening of new lands with all their few possessions gathered in a wagon and their stock driven in advance. It is tho froth cariied on the crest of an ever-advancin wave, which doej not move tho more solid material over which it passes. This remains behind firmly fixed, and cleansed and purified, and strengthened by tho pressure which has carried away all the lighter material." In nearly all railroad nccidenU the common passenger cars uro crushed, with great fatality to life, while sleeping and parlor cars of heavier construction usually escape with slight injury. It is in these last that officers of the road are generally found. Probably tho extra weight of tho sleeping ami parlor cars helps to crush iu others, but it docs seem' to the American Culticntor as if common cars should be st lengthened as far as pos sible. ' If railroad officials were obliged to ride on tho class of cars they furnish for common people, fewer accidents would occur. A less harsh remedy would bo to assess extra heavy damages for loss of life occasioned by using ears especially liable to breakage. The law limiting the damage tor killing in railroad accidents to $5000 a life should be repealed, or the limit put a good deal higher than it now is. James D. Leaiy, of raft fame, is going to make another attempt to have a raft towed to New York city from Nova Scotia. Work began in the early part of last winter on tho ico at Georgetown, Nova Scotia, by building cribs. The work is being carried out with vigor at other places, aud a large number of nicu are engaged. Leary's plan differs ma terially from that of his former raft. This tow will bo made up of 11 number of cribs containing about 500 pieces of piling each. Ea.-h crib has a strong chain laid lengthwise in tho ceu.reof the timbers, the whole being firmly secured the outside by binders of heavy wire rigging. When these are completed, a Dumber of theso cribs suiiiiieut to niaku up the tow will be coupled together, much as a railroad train is. It is ex pected that tho lirat raft will bo rtady very shortly, when it will be towed to New Yoik city by a tug or two, THE HARBOFt OF DREAMS, Only a whispering gale Flutter the wings of tho bont Only a bird in tbo vale Lends to the silence a note Mellow, subdued, and remote; This is the twilight of peace, This is the hour of release. Free of nil worry and fret Clean of nil care nnd regret When like a bird in It nost Fancy lies folded to rest. This is the margin of sleep, Here let tho anchor be cast; Here in forgetfulness deep. Now that the journey Is twist, Lowor the sails from the mast. Hero is the bay of content, Heaven nnd earth interblent; Here is the haven that lies Close to tho gates of surprise; Here nil like Paradise seems Here is the harbor of dreams. Frank D. Sherman, in the Century. IN A TIGHT PLACE., INTERVIEW WITH A MAN-KATIXd TKIF.lt. While at Kntamand, in tho Nepal dis- iiici 01 inuia, wmi Captain White, tho American tiger und serpent destroyer, a delegation came in from n village called Aliwar, thirty miles away, to get some wi iuu r.iignsu oiuccrs to go out and dc- iuy n iimu-eaier who Had rendered limself a terror to a hiro-n iliuirir-t Honi ng of the presence of the American, they mum 10 111111 instead. 1 lie Government jounty ou the bead of a man-eater at that time was $00. The villagers offered to make up sixty additional, and to give the Contain a cow nnd four irnt in ;cn minutes ho had closed a barimin. and u me uiicrnoon 01 tne second ilny we reached Aliwar. It was situated ou tho Wudwala Hiver, which is one of tho tributaries of the Gauges, and within iftecn miles of the foothills of the llimalnya .Mountains. The country was badly broken and covered with heavy mresv nnu juugie, and tlio Captain pro nounced it tho finest tiger range in India. The village contained about 700 in habitants, and had Considnmliln nn. uierco with points lower down on the stream. It was on tho bank of the ner strung out tor naif a mile, and the cleared space thus occupied was not more than a quarter of a mile wide. A day's work on the part of the villagers would have been sullicieut to clear ini tho uuder which the tiger approached, but wove was mane. 1 no beast had appeared about four week nrovinm nnrl tho first intimation of his presence cost a woman her life. She was cooking at a lire on the north side of the village, not over ten teet from tho door at which her husband and three child ret! Silt whnn a tiger, who had come out of a ravine and kept the cover of sotno bushes, sprang upon her. This was just at sundown. The spring of the tiger knocked the woman iuto the fire. He seized her by the foot and drcT her our. and nltl.rtn.rk 1,0- clothing was on fire, ho took hold of her suouidcr, gave her body a twist to throw tho weight on his back, and was off nt a run. 1 ue woman must have been killed b the blow of his paw as ho spruug, as she made no erv. In the four weeks which had elapsed since uie man-eater appeared he had cai ried oil seven ueonle. aud for lnnr dis tance of ten miles around the people were in great terror. There were half a dozen old muskets owned iu Aliwar, and these nau been loaded and uncharged at the ravine at hiuli noon in hones to scare the tiger away. Two nights previous to our arrival tne tiger Had entered a hut through an open window, seized a boy ten years of ago, aud made his exit by tho door. The cries of the boy awoke every one in the villago and could be heard a long way up the raviue. He had not come the night before, but was expected to bIiow up ou this tho night of our arrival. Wo reuched tho place about two hours before sundown nnd as soon as tho Captain got tho lay of tho land he made his plans. Two huts on the northern edge of tho villago were abnndoued to us. The Cap tain and one of his men took one, nnd a second native and myself occupied tho other. All had trims, and the ithin tvna tn watch for tho tiger and pot him. The hut I occupied belonged to a storage merchant. It WHS a anlill Imiblinrr nt-tjl. of small logs aud a heavy thatch roof. 1110 ground tloor, which was tho only OUe. occunicd a hiiihm, nf uh,iit 1fiv9.1 feet. It hud 0110 door and two windows. The door aud one window were in front aud the other window nt the rear. Six teen feet from the door a bamboo nurti- tion ran across tho room. In this rear room goods belonging to various parties were stowed at a fixed charge, while the family occupied tho front room as a living room. The door iu the partition slid un aud down iu grooves. When wo beean nor wnrch we fnctoned the door securely. The window beside it was an opcningauout two leet sipiare, pro tected onlv bv H cloth rnrtniii Tli at tho rear had a woolen blind, and this wa lasteued on the outside. It was a hot and sultrv niMit mid u-n j 1 - had a jar of water aud brandy in the storeroom. ine irout window com manded a good view of the country over wuicu uie uger was expected 10 ap proach, und for two hours I peered and listened and waited, but without re ward. Tho native was stretched out on the floor and sound asleco. Vcirv with standing on my feet, aud my throat very dry for tho waut of moisture, I quietly aroused my companion and told him to watch while I refreshed myself. I was behind tho partition drinking from tho iar whtwi the mitivu uttered Iaw iti nf - alarm and bouuded in upon me and shut uown tne door. 1 Had tne jar yet in my hands when u hpnvvhfulv (Irntkrwd trttliu floor and I heard tho snarl aud saw tho lorm ot a tiger in tho hut. This was what had haoocued : The finer IihiI ho. 11 1 broached tho house from the ormosite turccuuu, uu creepiug souiy arouuc had Rnrnmr fur Hih mMiiiiir uml into llw id native's face. In his alarm the man hat itl started back aud dropped bis gun, win! mine was leaning against the door, how ever, and tiis,t saved us. There wo were face to face with a full grown man-eater. taith only a bamboo partition between us and his fangs, anil I am frank to say that lor a moment 1 was completely ddne for. j un uniive nung nimscii down on nis face without a word, nnd I knew that neither suggestions nor aid could be ex pected from him. It was a starlight night, but the small opening in the wall of the hut made the room pretty dark. I could just make out tne outlines of the tiirer as he moved to and fro, while his eyes were like two small lanterns. Thero was no floor In tho hut, the ground bcinir beaten hard instead, but I could feci a sort of jar as the tiger moved about. He undo a thor ough inspection of everything in the ironi room, nnd then turned his atten tion to me. Mv revolver was iu niv bair- gagc, and so I was entirely destitute of weapons. I Had seen the native wearing a long Kinio during the day, and I called to him to know if ho had it with him. Ho was crying with fear, and would not answer me. I went over to him nnd found tho knife in a sheath nt bis belt, and when I had it in my hand mv cour- nge came back in a moment. About that time tho tiger had discovered that the only victims in the cabin were behind the partition, and he sounded against it ngni opposite mo with a lorco that made everything crack. Left to himself he would have knocked it down in short order, but I was there to interfere. I hacked him with the knife, and from tho way he snarled and spit I kucw that I had cut him. He withdrew to the far end of tho room, growling menacingly, and I could hear him lick tho blood which the knife had dmwn. Tho general situation was far from pleasaut. By knocking on the rear shut ter and calling out I could make Captain White understand how matters were, but on second thought 1 felt that it would be to his risk. The tiger might go out at the opening any moment, and if he en countered any one outside a tragedy was certain. To alarm the village was to bring about the same thing. Even if I could get out of tho rear window by forcing open the shutter the tiger had only to go out of the other window at the same time to pick me up. I felt that I was a pretty fair match for him with the knife in my hand, nnd, hoping that he would give up and leap out of the win dow after receiving another cut, I de cided to wait. I could just make him out as he lay on tho floor near tho dqor, and I was standing close to the partition wdien he suddenly uttered a roarof auger and charged. He struck the sliding door with a great smash, and his right fore paw struck at me through one of tho openings. I hacked at it and gave him a severe cut in tho leg. This time ue sent up such a dreadful roar of pain and rage that half tho villago was aroused by the noise. He drew back and ran along the partition, probably hoping to find a weak spot. and three several times he reared up on ins mnu legs, seized tne bamboos in his teeth, and shook them as you have seen a dog worry at a root when digging at the hole of some wild animal. Then he bounded toward the front and sought to go out of tho window, but stuck in the opening, snarling and growling, and finally dropped back. Ho tried this three times and then gave up. As we afterward discovered, there was a huge sliver on tho log at tho top of tho open ing. This poiuted inward. As the tiger crowded his bulk into the opening he pressed this sliver up against the log. When he undertook to go out the sliver diminished the size of the opening and stuck in his back like a dagger. Tho uproar he made alarmed Captain White, aud he called out to know what was the matter. "The tiger is iu the front room nnd can't get out!" I answered. "Why don't you shoot him?" "The guns are in the room with him." When I had fairly explained the situa tion he advised that I be on my guard and ready to use tho knife, and that it would not be safe to make any new move until we had daylight to nid us. I did not know at that time that the tiger could not get out where he came in, or I could have forced tho rear shutters and escaiicd from the hut. The beast slunk into a corner and lay there for a time. whining and growling. Then ho tried the opening again, and, when he found himself a prisoner, ho sat up on end and howled without fear. I believe I could have then driven him about with a stick. As tho tiger lost his ferocity the ua- tive with me regained his courage, aud by and by ho got up aud found a heavy stick among the bales of goods und stood ready to assist me in beating off any new attack. While the entire village was awake, no one moved out of his house, and all waited for the coming of daylight. At intervals of fifteen minutes Captain White sang out to us to know if we were all right, and about un hour be fore daylight ho warned mo that tho beast would no doubt fly into a fury with tho first sigus of day. From mid night to 2 o'clock tho tiger wua not quiet over rive minutes at a tune. He would sit and snarl aud whiuo and lick his wounded paws for a time, aud theu go circling around the room and growling iu a way to make me shiver. As he passe J along the partition, rubbing his head ugniust it, his eyes had a glint in them which haunted me for months afterward. I'pon tho approach of daybreak the man-eater began to grow more restless. It was time for him to be off to his lair, but he was a prisoner. Just as the first Mint light came he tried the window ugaiu, and his efforts to get out were so determined that I thought he would suc ceed. When ho finally drew back he was ripe for mischief. We could make him out plainly now, and as ho dropped buck to the floor tho native gasped out: "By my life, Sahib, he is the largest tiger in all India." 1 thought so, too, and subsequent measurements astonished everybody. In most cases the man-eater is uu old beast, with most of his teeth goDe. This tiger was full grown, not over five years old. aud every tooth was perfect. When he dropped to the floor he spit like a mad cat, wheeled with a snarl, and at his second jump he struck tho pnrtitidtt like a battering rnm. lie not only struck itj but ho Stood dn his hind legs and pulled nnd shook, nnd it must have gone dowri had we not nttacked him. The native dealt ono of his paws a terrific blow with the stick, nnd" I cut half wny through tho other with a blow of the knife. The beast let go nnd fell back. It was now broad day, nnd we could see him plainly. A photogmph of his head and face would make a woman shiver. Ho backed off, laid his ears flat to his head, showed every tooth, nnd his eyes wandered up nnd down the pnrtition looking for n weak spot I expected a rush, but he was not quite ready. He made three circles of the room, and then, springing like a flash, he fastened to the bamboos aeain. If we had not been ready the partition could not have held him more than a minute. He used teeth nnd clnws, and the whole hut was shaken with his exertions. I got in a savage cut on his hind leg, nnd stabbed him in the shoulder, nnd the native hit him an nwful whack on the nose. When he let go this time ho was done for. Ho letrcated to a rorner and howled and whined like a puppy, ami Captain White now called out to know the situation. I explained that the tiger could not get out, as I could now see tho sliver which obstructed, nnd he opened the rear shut ter nnd passed me 111 a rifle. When I took aim at the tiger's head ho was moaning and shivering and whinnering, and I almost felt ashamed to shoot him. Not knowing whether the dead man enter had a mate or not we scoured the jungles for his lair, nnd found it in the ravino not more than half a mile away. Ho had not devoured any of his victims nt tho spot where he rested, but all bad been eaten within a radius of a few rods. From what wo could discover it was con cluded that he was a "solitary," nnd as the village suffered no more, this must have been the case. In removing the skin we found a spot on tho shoulder where the beast had been severely cut with a knife. The slash was fully four inches long and quite deep, and tho hair had not grown out to cover scar. Ninoty nino channcs out of a hundred the native who had inflicted the cut had been eaten. iVcio York Sun. Curing Bow Logs. Jlrs. Bassett had twine, three-year-old boys, who were bow legged. She con sulted a doctor nnd asked if she must put their legs in irons. "Irons!" shouted the doctor. "Fid dlesticks! Take off their shoes and stockings. Their muscles have probably been cramped und weakened ulready and irons will only increase the trouble. Off with their shoes." Another suggestion of tho doctor was to let the boys walk up hill, and when they could not be out of doors, to have an inclined piano arranged in the house for them to practice on. In the effort to walk up a steep incline one naturally throws the feet outward. After somo months' treatment of this sort tho boys legs straightened and their muscles grew strong. It was leurned by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chil dren that a baby girl just beginning to walk was toddling around in her bttlo bare feet, aud a comuiitteo visited the mother. "But does your baby actually go bare foot, too?" asked one of the visitors. "Yes. She has never worn a shoe in her life. When she goes out for an air ing she wears warm woolen socks, for until she can walk she cannot, of course, take sullicieut exercise to keep her feet warm. But in the house she is as bare footed as the boys. She is just begin ning to get on her feet, aud her little bare toes are almost as useful to her as fingers. They have saved her many a fall. One of the members of the committee was the wife of a shoe dealer; she sat aghast. "But do you never intend to have your children wear shoes?" she asked. "Oh, yes, when I feel quito sure that the muscles of their feet and ankles aro strong enough to endure them, but tho moment they begin to indulgo in that hateful ubomination of toeingin, off they come again until the difficulty is reme died." The society decided not to interfere, and tho campaign against bow legged ness continues. Unme Maler. A Dog Who Loved Music. There was killed iu Petersburg re ccntly, a dog which, while it could boast no proud pedigree, aud did not even know its owner, was known to most of our people because of the great fondness it evinced for music. Where- ever a drum was heard to beat or a band to play that dog was sure to go, and he would always precede the music and show his delight at the Btraius he heard He accompanied many funeral marches to the cemetery when the lino was headed by a baud or drum corps; attended the parades 01 tne military ; was apparently intensely rejoiced whenever a minstrel company marched through the streets would romp and jump w ith cauinu de light when the bauds were sent out tc gather tho sovereigns to public .meetings. showiug no discrimination between Democratic, or Republican music, und would always hold out us long us t lit musicians would play. He was caught under one of the trains at the lower sta tion aud so injured that he had to be killed. JiUhtnond ( Va.) l)iinUch. Speed of Animals. In respect to the comparative speed of animated beings, it may bo remurked that neither size nor comparative strength seem to have much influence. The sloth is by no means a small animal, aud yet it can only travel fifty paces in a day ; warm crawls t 'y five inches in fifty sec onds; but a lady bird can fly twenty million times its own leugth in less than an hour. An elk can ruu a uiileinseveu minutes; an antelope can run a mile in a minute; tho wind mule of Tartury hast speed even greuter than that; aud ai eagle can fly fifty-four miles iu an hour: while a canary fulcou can even react seven hundred and fifty miles iu th short space of sixteen hours, . HOtf tllOI D AFFAIRS. fcWOM.fM OH TlltBD FfcET. A remedy for the swdllfid feet whicll housekeepers whd stand a grent. deal often suffer from may be found in tint following preparation, which Will prob ably be put up by any druggist Mix together three parts of salvclic acid, ten parts starch and eighty-seven parts pul verized soapstone. If this is sifted in the stockings it is said to keep the feet dry and to prevent chafing. Neto York Tribune. A fSEt.F.SS I'HKCAtmON. Most persons think it necessary to hang their winter clothes in the nir before packing them away in the summer. Ex perience has taught us that this method is not only useless, but injurious. Tho clothes do not need airing, having been used all winter, nnd a moment's reflec tion will convince any ouo that clothing thus exposed is more than likely to be seized upon by the moth millers, so nu merous in the spring. Winter clothing should be brushed before being packed away, ns it is likely to receive the germs of destruction if allowed to lio about for only a few minutes; for if the eggs of the moth aro once deposited we put them away in the trunk with the clothes, anil irreparable misthief is set on foot. Gum camphor is the best thing to put with clothing, and about a pound of it must be put in each trunk. All wooleu gar ments should be taken out cf the closets and brushed if not in constant use. FURNITIJItK TO MATCH THE CARPET. Carpets should always be chosen as a background upon which the other arti cles of furniture are to bo placed, aud should, fiom its sober colors and unat tractive features, have a tendency rather to improve by comparison objects placed upon it than command for itself the uo tice of the spectator. It should vie with nothing, but rather give value to all ob jects coming in contact, with it. Com posed of sombre shades and tones, ami treated essentially as a flat surface, it exerts a most valuable, though subordi nate, influence upon all the other decor ations of tho day. Upon it the eye rests while surveying the more important furniture, nnd its presence, properly treated, supplies tho necessary material for a satisfactory contrast with other por tions of the decoration, which comparison in nowise detracts from its own peculiui degree of merit, but proves from this circumstance how valuable it is as con tributing to the pleasing effect of the wholo apartment. Aeie York Obsener. ItECirES. Suet Pudding Fuur cups flour, two thirds cup molasses, ono cup sweet milk, one cup chopped raisins, one cup chopped suet, one teaspoon soda, a little salt, spice to taste; steam for two hours steadily. French Dressing Mix together om ealtspoonful of salt, 3ne-hnlf sultspootiful of pepper, thrco tablospoonfuls of oil. and one tablcspoouful of vinegar. Stii tho oil thoroughly into the salt and pep per, and ndd the vinegar, stirring until it thickeus. Mock Turtle Soup Put a knuckle ol veal in tho stock-pot and boil for two hours; ndd a piut and a half of black beans (turtle beans), nnd boil for five 01 six hours more, pepper aud salt to taste, remove from the fire, struin and whip un til smooth. Have ready in the tureen three chopped hard-boiled eggs nnd one half of a sliced lemon, pour in the soup and serve. Sweetbreads, Broiled Place youi sweetbreads in cold water for an hour; take thein out, and put them in a snuce pan with enough water to cover them ; take off the fire as soon as boiling; cool them off; split, aud put them on a a broiler, with salt, pepper, nnd a table spoonful of sweet oil over them; broil slowly for fifteen minutes; dish up, with a piece of fine butter on each aud a dry toast under it. Steamed Spring Chicken Take a half grown spring chicken, split dowu the back, rub with salt and pepper, place iu a steamer, and steam one hour. Pre pare a sauce of one piut of cream, half a pint of boiling water, six spoonfuls of flour, a tablespoonful of coru-starch, and butter each with pepper, salt and a few dtops of extract of celery. Mix all to gether, let boil ono minute, aud pour over tho chicken. Soup Always take cold water to make soups. Skim well, especially during the first hour. There is great necessity foi thorough skimming, aud to help the scum to rise pour in a little cold wutei now and then, and a' the soup readies the boiling point skim it oil. I'se salt at first sparingly, but season with salt and pepper just before taking it up. A quart of soup for three or four persout is the quuutity to allow. Musical kites. Musical kites aro provided with a bam boo resonator containing three apertures, one iu the centre aud one at each ex tremity. When the kite is flying, tin air, iu rushing into the resouutor, pro duces a somewhat intense aud plaintive sound, which can bu heart! at a great dis tance. The transverse rods of the fiumi of this kite are connected at the extremi ties, uud give the kite the aspect of twr. birds' wings atlixed to a central axis. This kite sometimes reaches large dimen sions say, ten feet iu width. There are ofteu three or four resonators, plat ed one above another over the kite, and in this case a very pronounced, grave sound it produced. The musical kite is very com mon in China and Tonquiu; hundreds ol them are sometimes seen hovering iu the air in the vicinity of Hanoi. It is be lieved among the superstitious to have the power of chiinniug evil spirits away, ami with this object it is otlcu tied to the roof of houses during tho prevalence ol winds, where, during the whole night, it emits plaintive murmurs' afi'.'r the man lier of an .-Eoliau liai p There are said to be 5000 Cuiuese Ma SOUi in the United Slates, HIE TERROR OF BATTLE. K FANIO WHICH SOMETIMES OVER TAKES BRAVE MEN. 9ol(llcr Often Hold In One Bnttlo and Timid In tlifl 'ct Not Cow aril Ice, but Terror. During the war, says a writer in the Detroit Free V, wo used to hear of companies falling back, regiments giving ground, and brigades becoming demor ilized, and the average reader took it for cowardice and openly expressed his contempt. No man ever went into battle twice nlike. No company, regiment or brigade were ever situated twice alike. A man may be very brave in one battle and very timid in the next. His physical and mental conditions have much to do with it. A private soldier knows the msition of his entire brigade in a fight. ' the position is n strong one he is eu uiraged ; if the flanks are exposed or he defenses are weak he is nervous and apprehensive. It is tho grand stake the soldier plays for in battle. If nc wins ho may live on intil the next fight. If he loses he gets I headstone iu a national cemetery. I annot make you understand the situa ion better than to give you personal cx eriences. The great majority of sol liers had the same feeling nnd passed hrough the same experiences. At first Bull Hun my brigade gained (round for several hours. This, with a mall loss of men, kept us encouraged, udced, it was hard for the officers to re train us. Every man was hopeful and letermined, and any single company vould have charged a regiment. Tho innic had upset thousands before it ouehed us. Indeed, tho rctreiit had icen going on for two hours before wo ;ot word. We were well in hand and eady to advance when tho news reached is. In five minutes every man wasshaky. II ten minutes men whose faces were lowder-stained were sneaking out of tho .sinks to gain the rear. In a quarter of an hour half u company of Confederates could have driven the whole brigade like a flock of sheep. I saw men cry like children. I saw others tremble and sit down from weakness. Every fresh re port milled to the feeling of terror, nnd by nnd by pride and discipline gave wny to a grand rush, and it was every liiau for himself. No one would stop to reason. No one cared whether his com- ade was ahead or behind. This was ailed cowardice, but it was not. It was innic tho terror of battle a senseless ut powerful something which seizes the iravest men and makes children of them. In the streets of Fredericksburg I saw '"edcral soldiers discharge their muskets uto the nir, wheu the enemy was within loiut-blank range. I saw plenty of them drop ou their faces and tremble and groan and cry. This was a case where "very man saw the hopelessness of attack. He felt that he was pushed forward to be shot dowu. There was no way for re treat until the lines should fall hack. On the other hand, the Confederate troops posted behind the stone wall at the foot of Mayrc's Hill joked and smoked and were iu the highest spirits, feeling thcin--elves secure from bullets, and knowing rhcy could bent back any force. One of clieni told me that after taking a dead aim on thirteen different men und dropping every one of them he refrained from iring the next quarter of an hour out of beer pity for the human targets being shoved up to meet death. At Malvern Hill my legiment lay in the dry bed of a creek at the foot of the levntion. It was a natural rifle-pit, and -heltered us so well that wo had only a slight loss iu killed nnd wounded. As .ho Confederates charged across tho fields we felt to pity them. Wo poured in our volleys without fear of danger in return, and out of five Confederate who rushed into our liues in their bewilder ment three were cryiug and sobbing. It wasn't cowardice but terror. No coward could have been induced to march across those meadows in the face of that terrific fire from cannon and musketry. At Cold Harbor, after beating off everything in our front, aud while most ot the men were cheering, some one started the report that the Confederates had gained our rear. Two thousand nicu broke back like a lot of boys, some even throwing their guns away, and the jeers of other troops had no effect until the frenzy had had time to evaporate. At Gettysburg my regiment had tho cover of a stone wall, aud we knew that we were well supported. Wo hoped for a charge, and when it came every man was cool and calm and confident. Ono band of prisoners, nu ubering about thirty, was led past us on their way to the rear, and I noticed that many were crying uud ull were whitefaced. I have seen the best soldiers and tho oldest fighters win their medals in one battle and show tho white feather in the next. 1 saw a Second Lieutenant almost cry for tho privilege of leading a charge at Autietam, and yet at Chautilly ho fell into a ditch and pretended to bo hit so us to drop behind iu tho charge. ( 'owards never go to war. It is only brave men who face the grim monster on a field of battle, and next to the foe his worst enemy is a terror which seizes him as a chill or fever might como ou, aud there is no remedy for it except t 'ti t away from the screaming inissill ' death until one's nerves und saud re Killed a Monster West India Llzib... Two Mexican fishermeu killed un ugly and vicious unolis of the lizzurd species on Padre Island, near Corpus Chrisli, Texas, hut not until a bard battlo had laeu fought. It measured four feet long aud thirteen inches in circumference, with claws equal to a tiger's. It con tained twenty-four eggs. This mounter is a native of the West India islands, uml the first ever seeu there. During the combat the unolis several times changed its color from green to brown und vice versa, a peculiarity of its tribe. Many theories are advanced as to how it reached the island. Tho most plausible is that it came in ouo of the huge mahogany logs from foreign lands that are frequently washed ashore. Kanxi City Journal. IN THE FIELOi?. Oh, maiden, under the skies so blue, Of the eye and tresses brown, I'd rather be walking in fields with you Than going my way to town. Is it far to your dwelling! But here's a rore Perhaps you slipped from It heart who knows! It Is like your face; it is like tho smilo Of your lips so red and sweet. Do the roses bloom for a little while And their hearts then cease to beat? How fair were the roses my youth-time knew? Were I a rose I would bloom for you. Do you roam through the summers sweet and long Over these fields so fair, And blend your voice with the harvest aong That thrills through the scented air? When you bind tho wheat with a golden skein Are the tares not mixed with the ripened grain? Sowing and reaping my life has known, And now with the gathered sheaves There are fruitless weeds that have heedless) grown, And thorns 'neath the rose's leaves. Sowing and reaping, the harvest seems Less than my labor and less than my dreams. Oh, maiden under the skies so blue, Of the eyes and tresses brown, I'd rather tie walking the fields with yoo Than going my way to town. Is it far to 3-our dwelling? But here's a rose. Perhaps you slipped from its heart who knows? . L. Stanton, in fiedyuue. . 1IIM0H OF THE DAY. The wind ofteu turns an umbrella, but a borrower rarely returns it. A man who fools his time away The circus clown. Motion Bulletin. The man who never smiles is a centre of gravity. liorhesttr I'ott-t'j'prcit. Arbitration cau settle a good many things, but it won't work on muddy coffee. A song-writer says he prefers to turn out lullabies because there is luck in cod numbers. No matter how great a burden it is to him, the doctor cru easily endure life if he has patients. Gladstone's axes are in great demand. This is because he is such a good feller. Norristoien Herald. Time will tell; but tho ordiuary man with an important secret won't give time a chance. Lynn Prem. It is a risky business to engage a chem ist in a war of words, as he is always ready with a retort. Seic York A'eirs. In America every man has a right to his own opinion, but nobody who has an opinion seems to recognize that right ex cept as to himself. Bessie "I mnke nil my own dresses. Don't you thiuk I deserve credit?" Jennie "Yes, my dear; but only for your good intentions." "Don't you think that doctors nre usually handsome men?" said one girl to another. "Some of them are just kill ing." Wdthinijton Critic American "No, sir; we have no titles in this country." Englishman "Then the ownership of real estate must rest ou nn iusecure basis." Ytnowine't Neict. "Are you fond of orchids, Miss Laker?" asked Miss Gotham of her Chicago visitor. "Heally," was tho re ply, "I don't believe I ever et any." Afunney't Weekly. McCorkle "Dolley is as tall ns a lad der." McCracklc "Yes; and he is like a ladder iu another respect, too." "What is that?" "You can see through him." Yenowine'i ATaes. Lady (to tramp) "Of courso, if I give you your breakfast you will do a little work for inc." Tramp (politely) "Oh, certainly ma'am; just a3 little as I know how." Wituhimjton iitar. A MAKTIAL rAHADOX. There is a puradox quite new. With common sense imbued; The man who's married to a shrew Is auy thing but shrew'd! .Miiiir' Weekly. "It was a fearful night cold as the Arctic regions. Tho ruffians were two hours ruusackiuo: the cars." "You must have lieon nearly frozen." "Oh uo. I was covered by two six-shooters." Munteit Weekly. Customer "I'd like to get about fifty cents' worth of th?so cucumbers, if you please." Dealer iu fine groceries, tropical fruits, etc. (with withering scorn) "Cau't you afford tobuy a whole one?" CliieiKjv Tribune. Bookstore Clerk "Wo have a Biblo of the same typo us that, sir, but bound in uiorocco." Customer "I don't caro ubout helping those foreign fellers along. Give 1110 a Bible bound ia the Lnitcd States." JuJ'je. Merchant (to his clerk) "How cau you take your hat off to that man when you know how he has cheated inei" Clerk "llow can I help taking off my hut to any man who cuu cheat you?" Flit'jeiitlc lilactler. TIil-ib s a bhmdt-rbus nt the window; There's a ent uu the Isu-k yard feut-e; There's a shut: there's a tpiull, And a long oatei-waul. And then ttieru is silence. iuU-ue. Wusiiinytttn I'ui'i!.'. Husband "Aiu't you ready yet?" Wife "I'll be ready iu a minute. l'vo only got one glove to put on." Husband (sighing) "One of those ten-button gloves. Well, I'll sit dowu ami write four or five more letters." 7j-na '(( in'jt. Story of a Copper Cent. Just fifty ye.-.rs ugo, oriu 1 S-ll), Willi im F. Andrews, a master iuhmiu of Provi dence, stumped his initials on u copper ceut aud scut it out to the world, or, iu other words, put it in circulation. But Mr. Audrews always hoped to have it back. Last Monday, iu taking s.miu change, he found his loin bat s, agaiu. After fifty years of wandering it had re turned and he would not lake hundred of dollar for it. FroeiJenet Tt'eir,tm.
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