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Chicago has n new institution, de signed to transform the servant girls of the windy city into "home soien tists." Here's luck to it. : The remark is so frequently made that "o man who refused to give his name was knocked down by a street car," or that "a woman whose identity could not be learned was rnn over by a grocer's wagon, " that the Spring field Homestead advises people to give thoir names cheerfully and avoid such a penalty. Manila's Admirat is not the only Dewey who mado tho family name re sound in naval circles. Sixty-four years o Captain Dewey, an nrdent "Whig, sawed the Jackaou figurehead off the frigate Conatitution one night . in Boston Harbor. It raised a com motion at the time all over the coun try almost as groat as" the Philippine news did in .our own day, - j It is gratifying to nolo that Genoral Henry is applying to Porto Rico tho same vigorous and salutary policy by which Genoral Wood baa put new lifo into the province of Santiago. In Porto Rico the conditions are .not so diflloalt and depressing, and the task will bo less difficult, and . General Henry is facilitating itby doing thing in their proper order. He is begin ning by holding munioipal elections, aud will then reorganize local oourts of justice and (other details of local ad ministration, after wbiioh the Ameri can public sohool will be established. All th jio measures will show good ro snlts even raoro qniokly than they Lave in Cuba. ' Anothor Andree relief expedition has come to griof without finding any traco of the lost exploror. TLJs is the second" expedition in the past few months that has been compelled to re treat, baffled and disappointed, before the terrors of the Arctic As the months go by it becomes more mani fest that the daring balloonist baa met the fate of Franklin and De Long and huudreds of others less prominent in the white wilderness of the unexplored North. . While it is hoping against hope that And e and his companion may yet rer' m to civilization, the qnest for if L like, that for Sir John Franklin, never cease until tan gille evidence of their death has been secured. ! In a recent report on. the American iron trade with Great Britaiu, Consul Ilalatead, of Birmingham, sets forth a point of great enoonragemeut to pro dacors in this' country. He declares tht the old reason for a sale of Ameri can pig in the English market the disparity between this and the native product in tue matter 01 price no longer holds good; that the recent rise in the American market has served to show that we can maintain onr mar kot there even with Alabama iron which furnishes the great, bulk of tho trade at a higher figure than the na tire brands. This market he regards as now a permanent one, and freight rates froui Southern ports can always be kept down, because the season of heavy movement corresponds with tbe4 cotton shipping season, when pig iron serves admirably as ballast to ships bulging with light-weight cotton. Our esteemed contemporaries, the Temps and Petit Blen, of Paris, seek to persuade themselves that onr ao quisitiou of the Philippines has de prived us of tha guardianship of the Western Hemisphere, says the New York Journal. As the Petit Blen puts it: "The Montpe Doctrine is now out of date, one American Republic, conquering and colonizing, no longejj has the right to cloBe to Europe the new continent, since she herself has .stepped ont of it." That is to say, because we hare stepped out pf our . own home for tho pufpose of thrashing t Spain and giving liberty to some millions of her oppressed colonies anybody is free to step into the Ameri can residence or fonnd settlements on the adjoining premises. When any . European country is able to beat us in war, as we have beaten Spain, it will be privileged to overthrow the Monroe SDoctrine; and not till then. Tht validity of that doctrine has rested not on Europe's consent, but on the ability of this Republic to enforce it. No foreign monarchy can fasten upon any part of this half of the world with out demolishing a republio, and thf demolition of republics by monarchiot is an enterprise which the tJnite'd States will not tolerate. The Monro . Doctri"- stronger to-day than evci it wn, 1 ause we are more powerfu; for its iL'fousethan at aDy other period ' in onr history. . j ,4 .Zl..i. J 1 r . . .......... 1 : . si. gHSSHSe that .Him" had been betrayed, how-confess that mj share carae in Terr QW. WE HID By a flarlne Engineer. OW we came to be let in for the job of hiding Nihilist, a n bringing him .safely to Eng land, I never tn.iv Bv.ntla (JM(W H Suffice it to say 2i)$X$? " ' that it cause ffnm - my fellow-en gineers and myself a period of great anxiety. Our steamer was loading at Odessa in October, 1889, and the Chief, the Fourth, and myself (I was acting as third engineer at the time) were asnore one evening, in a ship chandler' shop, in company with many other engineers of . different steamers lying in the port. The pro prietor of this establishment (Whom for the purpose of this tale I will ca George Dimetri) was a man well known to seafarers t-ading to that part or the world. Several of those present, who knew the Ureek bette-than I did, had re ' irmrked that he seemed to be in a most uncomfortable mood that night, and he had evidently told them the cause of his troubles, for much whispering iiad been going on between the Eng lishmen. -Our Chief, who appeared to be "in the know," later on proposed that we should go for a walk, in the course of which he explained that certain jMniust, wnq had been cap tured by ;the Russian Government. and sent to Odessa for transportation to Siberia, in one of the volnnteer fleet, had escaped, and was actually at JLHmetn'a shop in hiding. We were told, fnrther more, that Dimetri had fce;r"d as Englishmen to get the man Barely out of tne country. The Chief asked our opinion on the matter; sounded us, in fact, and. I, for one, was strongly against having anything to do with the affair, cannot say wnetner I was won over by the pitiful yarn that was spun about tno poor (el low a condition, or the fact that it was understood that money was no object; suffice it to say, t.nat at last we three engineers con aented to smuggle this Nihilist td England. It had been decided that the representatives of those steamers iu port shonld draw lots as to which one was to undertake the risk, for risk it undoubtedly was. We fully understood mat to be canght aiding this man would be a serious business for us. well, onr Chief lost the toss, and we had td arrange the matter as best We GOnld. 1 "nnvnirtnf inn thnf the looks orthe fugitive himself (we con id never grasp his crack-jaw name, mua so always reierred to! mm as 'Him") were not by any means pre possessing, and so repelled was J when I first orawled into the hole un der Dimetri's roof, and was intro duced to the man as one ot his would' be saviours', I could have recalled my decision tnere ana tnen to aid and abet his escape. - You see, there's no getting away from facts. In fiction the fugitive would be a really noble- looktng tellow, possessed of every at tribute that commands one's admira tion. "Him," however, was fully six feet in neignt, witu a shaggy head of hair, reminding one of the tradi uonal pictures of poets.; aboard that covered the whole of his chest, and bad apparently never been trimmed, and a face that generally seemed never to have known the cleansing proper ties ol soap, ills clothes, which had evidently at one time been Dimetri's, and were ridicuously too small all round, by no means improved his ap pearance. SUch were our first impres sions of our romantic hero. In dismay, we deoidod to leave "Him" where he was, for that night, at any rate, and hold a consultation with our eeoond engineer, who was aboard the ship, before doing anything further in the matter. "i Perhaps it would be as well''to state here how matters stood in our steam er. The C was a new vessel, owned by a Greek firm, and flying the Greek flag. The whole of the crew, with tho exception of the four engin eers, wer ",is, aud we were put on b" ) builders of the ma- ch .d-known north-country f mr guarantee men. "nv, four English engineer, all fellow-townsmen, and all likely to be employed on this same steamer for about six months only, and then to re turn to the same engine-shop together, were more than friends. As a fact, we were more like four brothers. There fore, when we told onr second engin eer what had occurred, he readily ac quiesced, and we all four sat down in the mess-room and worked the prob lem out I will not weary yon with an epitome of the suggestions offered; let it suffice to say we decided that thabest plaoe to stow "Him" was in the evaporator. Without divinor into technicalities. let me say that tha evaporator is a machine used in modern marine en gineering for making fresh water (in the form of vapor) by boiling; salt water. A powerful jet of steam is run through a series of coils. When the dome is raised, these coils can be re moved, and then a cylindrical space is left, some six feet in height by three feet six inches in diameter. Of course, the machine can be worked or left un used as required, all ingress of steam and water being regulated by valves. when we started work as usual next morning at seven o'clock, I got my men to raise the dome within; we then took out the coilr. which, when clipped, I put carefully away in the ocker in the Chief's cabin. At dinner ,IS D?B y PrommentJUle was par- mm THE NIHILIST. time tha Chief himself, who had been ashore all the forenoon, came on board with a stranger. Believe me, I should never have recognized the un couth, weird-looking "Him" in the person that now stepped aboard. Our Chief had evidently not wasted his time, for he bad taken a comb, a pair of scissors, and a razor ashore, and out off all the Nihilist's superabundant uair. Muoa soap had evidently been usea on tne large person cf "Him, ana now be really looked a smart fel low, arrayed in naval clothes. Old Mao, our beloved chief, had bought a suit of clothes from a very tall en gineer belonging to a Swedish ship lying close to us, and had equipped --mm" in tnem. J. bat evening, when the men had left work, and our steward, who was also a Greek, had gone, as usual, to gamble ou the lore hatch, ' we took Him down into the engine-room. and silently placed him on the evaporator base, finally covering the dome over him. Next morning I didn't forget to explain to the stokers that I had had to lower the dome my self, as the Chief didn't like to' see it hanging in the slings all night. We next put in the bolts and fastened down the dome as if ready for use. iso one would ever dream that the coils of the evaporator were not in the machinD, their place having been taken by a atalwart Nihilist, whom we were kidnapping, so to speak, in this very extraordinary manner. This evaporator was fitted with a safety vaive on top; this j. took ont, so as to give our captive fresh air. Through the hole food was also lowered to him. bnt we couldn't send down very large parcels because the hole was only thirteen inches in diameter. In the course of the day we received a visit from the Russian polioe. They naa Deen to other ships also: and let me tell you they searched onr steamer from end to end almost as thoroughly as English Custom-house officers would do, but no one dreamt of look ing into the evaporator. I really thought we bad got off very nicely when we sailed for Antwerp that night; but we soon found out that our troubles had only just begun. Uf course, we bad fully intended to liberate "Him" as soon as the ship was fairly at sea; according to our calculations, he was then to be located in the store-room, which, as it was only used by ourselves, would have made "Him" a comfortable home for the three weeks' run. The ship rolled so heavily, however, that the Chief would not allow us to raise the dome: he was afraid, and rightly so, too, that it would carry away and either smash something, or kill poor "Him" in its mad movements. Butwhat were wetodo with "Him? We understood that ho had been used to roughing it, and could stand pretty nearly anything. As a fact, he had to, whether he liked it .r not, before he finished that journey, at all events. We passed as much food down to him as we could, and al though he didn't understannd a word oi Ingush, we cheered mm up con stantly. Forty hours' steaming brought us to the Bosphorus, and as we had to coal here, and should be very busy on deck, we pulled up the dome. and dragged poor "Him" out. Ohl what a sight he was. He had been very seasick, poor wretoh. while the heat had made him lose much flesh, even in that short time, so that his clothes hun about him like saoks. I think our sense of pity at his condition made us fairly wild at our folly in leaving "Him" there so long; we really hadn't calculated on the heat of his prison, for you must re member that he was in a part of thj engine itself. We bathed him, how ever, and changed his clothes as far as we could: we fed him on beef-tea and arrowroot biscuits; walked him creniiv nn ana anwn tha Arnnna mim floor, and finalljlwhen we thought he was coming round a bit, we locked him up in the store-room, and went on deck to see that we were not robbed of rial by those rascally Turks, I he usual busl and excitement were at their heigh when the stew ard ran np to me and said he had been into the engine-room, and that a strage man was walking round examining everything. Could "Him" have got out. I won dered, crossly: "what a fool he must be thus to expose himself to danger." astiiy 1 toia the Uhief the news. nd ran down to the engine-room to expostulate with "Him." You may judge of my amazement on seeing quite another individual oalmiy. walk ing the "staring platform," as though to the manner born. At first I thought he was a thief, but he politely informed me that he had booked a passage to Antwerp in this very boat, and he went on to apologize for going into the engine room without leave. I might, he said, be quite sure that he was doing nothing wrong.' The fellow evidently understood modern machinery, for he calmly asked me where the evaporate! coils had got to.. I was so thunder struck that I couldn't reply for the moment, for there was the evaporator dome still in the slings you see, we had been so horrified at our charge's condition when we dragged him out, that we forgot to put it down again. Noticing my embarrassment, he smiled and saM: "So the bird has flown, eh?" Without waiting for an answer, the stranger quickly ascendod the engine-room ladder and was rowed ashore. I did not know what to make of the affair. It was evident (about twenty miles from Wsb that "Him" had been betrayed, how ever. At any rate, I though we had got rid of our mysterious visitor pret ty easily, and I was complimenting myself on not being quite such a fool as he had evidently taken me for. when, to my dismay, on leaving the Golden Horn behind us, I saw the same man talking to the captain on on the poop. Evidently he . had fennd out that no one had left our steamer at Constantinople, and so had burned back, determined not to be baulked of his prey. We held a hasty consultation as to what was to be done with "Him" under these very alarm ing circumstances. The captain would undoubtedly search the engine- room and stoke-holds, and, if found, put both "Him" and the Russian officer, for such the polite stranger was, on to the first steamer wo passed bound for Russia. "Put Him' in the evaporator again," said the Second "What! and boil him to death?" said I, horrified. "Not at all," said No. 2. "We can run a jot ot water over it, to keep it cool.- The water will only wash the bilges out, and that they sadly need. "Good," said the Chief. "And we'll raise the dome every night when we have an opportunity, and let 'Him have a walk around." These plans were carried out at once. "Him" protested violently. poor chap, bnt we thrust him into his guasny tomD, witn ail the food we could lay our hands npon. It seemed partly like burying a man alive, and partly like thrusting him into an oven. All went woll till the mid-day watch next day, by which time we had left the mouth of the Dardanelles far be hind us. ' I fancy onr captain didn't want to start the search till we were quite beyond the power of the Turks, wno win ao anytmng lor iiuesia in a matter of this kind. About two o'clock in tho afternoon the captain, accompanied by the Rus sian, came to the engine-room door. and said he was about to searoh the whole plaoe. I called the Chief. who was lying -down just then, bnt before he could come to my assistance the Russian had got round the evaporator (I had shut off the water as soon as I saw them com ing) and, good heavens! I saw with beating heart and feeling of inde ecribable horror he was going to open the steam valve on to the coals, and boil poor "Him" to death. I was about to shriek out, so great was my excitement, when a Doiso overhead attraoted my attention. The Chief with magnificent presence of mind had dashed on to the boiler top and shut off the auxiliary valve, a thing which l had been told to do. but had forgotten in the excitement. Quick as lightning, however, the Chief did"it, and our poor, bottled-up fugitive was saved. The Rnssian police officer deliberately opened the valve, and then, turning round on me, laughed sardonically in my face. There was no longer any doubt in my minu mat the whole of our plot had somehow been given away to the xtussian police, la his pride at hav' ing, as he thought,- baflled us, how ever, he forgot to feel the dome to see if it were getting hot. I should say that the anxious look on my face had told its own tale The officer at any rate had fairly done his work, for when be Bad kept me talking for some time, no said, bland ly, "Well, Mr. Engineer, you are now at liberty to have what is left of that fellow. Good afternoon." And walk 1 I 11 ing out oi tne engine-room, Le never troubled us again that run. We had a good laugh'at his expense. though, when, later on, we again re L . a.lTT? .l l't Bioreu -nim to noerty. ue was an awful wreck when we lugged him out and made a nice bed in the waste locker, for we now wanted the evapora tor to do its own legitimate work. Our next port of call was Algiers, and we spent our spare time here in maturing a nice little surprise for our Russian enemy. Wo created a fine, stalwart- looking man out of waste, using an old fire-bar for a backbone. This dummy was about the eame build as Him." We reach Algiers after dusk, too late tq coal that night, but the agent at onoe came 00 board witb- onr let- ters. We begged the loan of a boat, and then, lowering our dummy care fully into it, three of us jumped in, and pulled quickly for the shore. But. as we intended, our spy saw us as we passed the stern of the steamer, and we saw bim running frantically to the captain for a boat to be sent in pursuit. When close to the quay, we ouietlv dropped the dummy overboard, and pulling j round some coal-lighters glidedjwiftly back alongside our ship; we then climbed aboard and awaited tho result. All night long that Russian searched Algiers for "Him," but of course in vain, and next day we saw the inde fatigable offioer dragging the harbor. It had evidently leaked out that a man had been thrown from our boat. It was a good job for us, by the way. that the relations between Franoe and Russia were not so cordial then as they are now, otherwise we might have had to bid good-bye to the good ship C at Algiers, and accompany our Russian back to Odessa. The latter suddenly declined to proceed any farther en his eventful voyage to Antwerp, and we afterwards learned that the dragging operations were crowned with overwhelming suc cess during the evening, with the natural result that the Russian be came the laughing-stock of the entire city. Putting into Dartsmouth for a further supply of fuel, we smuggled "Him" ashore, and the Chief and I were not sorry when his train left for the Metropolis. On arrival at Ant werp a letter was put into the Chief's hands; it contained no communica tion, but twelve 5 bank-notes, aud I Awlfrv to moke hii Honored" way W ' confess that my share came handy. But the most extraordinary part of the whole story I learned the follow ing year when again at Odessa. Poor "Him,",it appeared, was, after all, a mere scapegoat for a far greater Nihilist than he a "political" of high rank. "Him" was deliberately smuggled out of Odessa on board our ship, not ao much because it was necessary that ha himself should escape (though he certainly was very much wanted) as to throw the Russian polioe off the track of the more im portant conspirator. Wide World Magazine. COMMON SENSE ON PUNCTUATION. A Batch of Rules That Are la Accord With Modern Methods. "Whose punctuation do you follow?" The answer is, onr own. Unlike D'Israeli's alleged "sensible men" who, when asked what their religion is, "nevei tell" we are willing and glad to tell what our rule of punctua tion is. Here you have it in a few words: " 1. Never use a comma if "tho way faring man, though a fool," can grasp the meaning of the text without it. 2. Nevei use a semicolon when a comma will serve the author and the reader as well. 3. Never use a colon when a semi colon will serve as well. i. Wherever there is no climacterio effect to be preserved, cnt up your semicoloned and ooloned sentence in to short sentences. 6. Use commas and periods as your standbys. G. Use the semicolon chiefly to bet ter express antitbetis, and to group phrases and clauses. 7. Use the colon chiefly in formal enumeration, after "viz.," "as follows" and the- like. 8. Use the dash to indicate an ab rupt break in the sentence, an after thought, and, in many instances where in olden times the parenthesis was used, to indicate that the words in cluded are parenthetically employed. v. Use the parenthesis only when you find dashes are not sufficiently exclusive. 10. Never use brackets except where you insert some word of your own in a quotation from some other author. 11. Never use an interrogation point except when your question is direct; e. it would be improper to use it after "girl" in this sentence: "He asked what ailed the girl." These are our rules to-day. To morrow, li we eee any new light, we shall follow it But we are not likely to stray away from the course above marked out. Punctuation, like sen tence-making, becomes second nature after awhile. In punctuation, as in sentence-making, we do well or ill as we succeed or fail in presenting our thought in fewest words. The words should be chosen and arranged as to develop our meaning, our whole mean ing, and nothing but our meaning. Midland Magazine. After the Catechlam. She "Will you love me always." He "Passionately, my darling." She "And you will never cease to love me? " He "Never, my darling." Biie "And you win save your money He "Every penny." She "And you will never speak harsbly to me? ' He "Never." She "And you will give up all your bad habits?" He "Every one of them." She "And you will get along with mamma? jje "Yes." She "And papa?" He "Yes." She "And you will always do just what mamma wants you to do? He "Yes." She "And lust what papa wants you to do?" He "Yes." She "And iust what I want you to ao He "Of course." She "Well, I will be yours, but I fear I am making an awful mistake. Tit-Bits. Pearl Blade to Order. ju. .Dounn, oi tne oorboune. sin;e the announcement of his successful production of pearls in the Rosooff laboratory, has been inundated with letters from fashionable ladies who either want to know where they can buy these artificial products or whether they should lose no time in disposing of valuable pearl ornaments. To the trade, however, M. Boutin's discovery causes little agitation, for the dealers well know that he has merely done what has been for years a familiar trick with the heathen Chinee. A lit tle pellet of some foreign substance introduced between the Bhells of the oyster will in the course of a few weeks become coated with the beautiful iri descent material known as mother-of-pearl. But the result is not a genuine pearl of any value, for that is a growth whioh only comes to perfection after a considerable lapse of time. Such a process of nature cannot be hurried. London Chronicle. Striking Contradictions. A great contrast will often b Amnd to exist between authors and Vteir woraa, -lneiancnoiy writers being the most jocular in society usually, and humorists in theory the most lu gubrious mortals in practice. "The Comforts of Human Life," by R. Heron, was written in prison under the most distressing circumstances. "The Miseries of Human Life," by Beresford, was, on the contrary, com posed in a drawing room where the author was surrounded by the best of everything, and Burton, the author of the "Anatomy of Melajcholy," was extreoie'y facetious in conversation. gr rufiKjCE DEPARTMENT. . The solutions to tfceja putzlas will ap PeM JU-a OtfPSWM issue. . . 10 ST. A Diamond. I. A consonant in Profectum A fairy queen. 3. A title of respect. 4. Wicked. 5. A consonant in Semper. 38 F1t. Pled Strait. 2. Lleeslebi. 2. Aamkcwni. Aaannicd. 4. Lidafro. 5. Nscao, 3. 39 FaUe Adrerbi. Add the proverbial ending: To an exclamation, and form sacred. To ground grain, and form carti laginous. 1 To a little demon, and form to sig nify. To a dog, and form having ringlets. To method, and form a military of ficer. To one of the organs of sense, and form on time. To a kind of cloth, and form an answer. 40 A Square. 1. The seat of life. 2. A mistake. 3. To get up. 4. Fragrant flowers. 6. A lock of hair. ANSWERS TO PREVIOUS PUZZLES. 33. A Corrugated Column RACER FUN .CAST E A II A THIN K , INN BUGLE 31. A Square HOLM O L E A LEON MANX 85. Six Pied Cities iu Pennsyl vania Lancaster, Mauoh Chunk, Williamsport, Towanda, Punxsutaw noy, Chambersburg. 36. Five Beheadments P-ark; s-tar; s hip; s-hoe; b-room. Indian Katlve Cavalry. When a man wishes to enlist in a silladar cavalry regiment he must pro vide himself, says a writer in Cham bers's Journal, with ahorse, saddlery, a lance, (if his regiment are lancers.) a sword, his uniform, and his trans port; or else he must be employed as a rider by some other person who is the happy possessor of all these neoes- sanes. In the former case he is called a silladar, or the owner of an assami; and in the latter case a bargir, and his employer his nilladar. if A silladar draws pay for his assami and also for his own services. Thus. if a man owns two assamis, he draws two lots of horse pay and one lot of pay for himself, a corresponding amount to this last being paid to the man who rides his second horse that is to say, to his bargir. In some regiments, until compara tively recently, it was quite usual for one man to own ten or twelve asoauiis, or even an entire troop. More than this, it was not unusual for an assami to be left by will to a man's wife or in fant child, in which case the executors employed a substitute (awas kidmat) to ride for the woman or child, thus enabling the owner to draw horse pay. This practico 'is still common in some native Hindustan States. ' An Order of JoarnalUti. A newspaper report from London ays mat tne tvev. jjacn tszyrma, a devout Episcopalian clergyman, is seriously agitating the founding of au ordor of journalists, which is to be placed under the special protection of the Apostle Paul. The clergyman argues that the press of the day is ex erting a powerful influence over the world, and that the formation of a so ciety of newspaper editors and writers, with the noble aim of instructing the nations and of guiding them on the road of justice and universal brother hood, cannot fail to prove of incalcula ble benefit to. the Christian Church aud humanity. The physicians, says tne xtev. mr. bzyrma, have St. Luke as their patron saint, and as St. Paul was the best reporter of ancient times. and the mighty logician and moralist of Scripture, he would be the best mediator for journalists between heaven and earth. It is proposed to hold an annual reunion of newspaper workers in the big Cathedral of St. Paul, where some eminent bishop 1b to deliver au annual address, and where prayers will be offered for the benefit of the new ipaper fraternity. Where Window Glaia 1 a Luxury. Dawson is soon to be "Dawson City" in reality, Bays Consnl McCook. une must take money in in order to bring money out of the gold fields, capital being needed in developing. Many improvements have been made in Dawson. Window glass is scarce, a srnau ugnt ten by twelve bringing 82.50 or S3. Small have been made by parties w. supplies of glass and oil lamp lamp commands from $18 lawson, ana a nve-cent pa carpet tacks will sell for seve cents. une-uau tne uuuuiukj in Dawson to-day are without window glass. Peat Brlcka a Cheap Fuel. Consul Ivehl, of Stettin, writes of the manufacture of briquettes from peat or turf. This fuel besides being very cneap nas other merits. It is clean, easily packed in bins, gives good neat, aud in a closed stove with 1 .! ll -II . vuiT a Bugni urait win remain in a glowing state for teu hours. Owing to crude machinery the cost of pro duction now (about $1.55 per ton) is greater man it will tie when improved maohinery is introduced. Briquettes manufactured from coal are cheaper man those oi turf. l-dily f ines ook td ) in a of K five WHEN COOK'S AWAY. When eook's away sweet Bessie tries Her band at bak:ng beans and pies; Bho gets the cook book from th shelf. And then proceeds to teach herself. Bbe porestbe pages till sbe thinks She mastered all the doughs and drinks. Eut tho' she follows every quirk, The stubborn recipe won't work. When cook's away the cake Is sad.1 The biscuits drop, the coffee'a bad, -The bread is never baked enough, The Bsh is raw, the meat Is tough, lhe porridge burns, the gravy lumps, i And we are in the deepest dumps. For indigestion comes to stay And reigns supreme, when cook's ," When eook's away I fear that tha Jiecorillng angel weeps for me.; For it if true, I must confess, I tell soma libs to please aweet Bess, I tell her (Love forgive the crime!) She'll be a splendid diet la time, Nor never show by word or Jook That I am yearning for the cook. What-To-Eat HUMOR OF THE DAY. Tabby "Would you die a thousand deaths for me?" Tom "No; only oine." Indianapolis Journal. Hostess "I suppose there is no use f asking you to stay to dinner?" Caller "Well, no, not in that way." "Mr. Newby, we don't see you at jnr socials any more." "No; I've got into society now." Chicago Record. "She is a promising young musi cian." "Well, get her to promise that she won't play any more." Illustrated American. Foreigner "Parvenu! I will pull your nose!" Slonoher "Maybe my nose, Count; but never my leg!" Philadelphia North American. Boarder (disgustedly) "I can't eat this food; 'tisn't tit for a pig." Boarding-house Keeper (coolly) "I don't cater for pigs." Fuu. "What a well-informed man Jenkiua leems to be! He can converse intelli gently npon almost any subject." "Yes; Jenkins has brought up five boys." "The single-scull race I" , "exclaimed in old lady, as she laid down the paper. "My gracious! I didn't know there was a race of men with double culls!" "It snows?'' cried the sohool boy. ' Hur rah!" and tits shout Is echoed with lusty applause. Dut ten minutes later the wind veers about. And he plaintively murmurs, "It thaws!" Washington Star. "I want an ice boat," said the boy. "Nonsense," replied the old man. "What's the matter with an ice wagon? It's not quite so fast, per haps; but it's just as cold." Chica go Post. "Always koep cool," exolaimed the man who lives to give advice. "Yes," said Mr. Meekton. "But den't let the man who tends to the steam down stairs hear you say that. He runs the idea into the ground. "That is a pretty big buckwheat oake for a boy of your size," said papa at breakfast to Jimmy-boy. "It looks big," said Jimmy-boy. "But really it isn't. It's got lots of porouses in it." Harper's Young People. Wood "After starving for twenty years, old Potts conceived an idea which resulted in making his fortune." Van Pelt "What was it?" Wood "Changed the sign over his shop from Junk' to 'Antiques. " Trifth. "I cau marry any girl I please," he said, with a self-satisfied, if-you-love-a-girl-wonld-yon-marry-faer expression npon his languid face. "No doubt," she resonded, "but what girl do you please?" They don't speak now. My grandmother told me to pay as I go; I'd follow the rule if 1 bad bat the chance, But landlords and landladies won't have It so; They always insist upon pay In advance. Washington Post. "So 'you ore going to marry Herr Meissner?" "Hardly. Papa is not altogether satisfied with his position; mamma doesn't like his family; he doesn't strike me as quite stylish enough and, besides, he hasn't asked me." Punch. The Hand a an Indication or Dlieaie. The study of physiognomy and of the hand is curiously interesting. It is now generally admitted that a per son s character can be gauged with a very considerable degree of acouracy by a visual analysis of the features, and the same remark applies, with less force perhaps, to a study of the hand. The fact that in certain dis eases the expression of the face and the appearance of the hands are fairly reliable indices of the nature and pro gress of the disease is too well known to require further emphasis. It would certainly appear to be more likely that the study of the baud is deserving of closer ataantion than is usually be stowed on the subject by medical men in general practice. New York Sun. Voyage of a Tin ISoz. Things cast np by the sea some times have floated for a longer dis tance than one would suppose. A man near Rockland recently picked up a small tin tobacco box, with a note inclosed requesting the finder to return it to Edward II. Grant, South Framingham, Mass. The box was mailed to the above address, and an answer was soon received from the recipient, who said that the box hod been thrown overboard from a canoe on - Twin Lake, near Moosehead, where he was spending his vacation last season, and must have found its way down the Penobscot River. Lewiston (Me.) Journal. Extenilre l'ie ot Kangaroo Illdee. Not many people have any idea how extensively kangaroo hides are utilized in this country. During 1897 there were over 400,000 such skins received in New York, and about eighty per cent, of these were tanned in one large establishment in Newark, X. J. The hides all come from Australia and New Zealand. Prior to 1859 kangaroos were killed and eaten in Australia and their hides were cut up and made mostly into thoestiirgt and belts.
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