—. Donor fc Bellefonte, Pa., May 12, 1899. REMORSE. “Call them back, Oh, call them back” she whis- pered. As prone upon her deathbed there she lay, “Whom shall we call?’ The tender watchers question. “The hours that have unheeded passed away? Call them back, Oh, call them back, the heart- aches, The bitter tears that we have caused to flow; The thoughtless words that we are prone to utter, Oft probing wounds, of which we do not know. Call them back—the unkind words we've spoken, The cruel frowns we've given day by day. Call them back—the hearts we may have broken, Oh, call them back! In merey; bid them stay. Call back the days in which we might have labored And stored away some treasures rich and rare. In them we might have toiied e’en for the Master And gathered in the harvest, full and fair. Oh, can it be if we avoid in future, The past mistakes, which are beyond recall, The Master will draw, in boundless mercy, ; The curtain of oblivion o’er them all. E M. V. Tuomas. MARILLA NEWCCMB’'S BEST DE- LAINE. Mrs. Newcomb leaned forward a second and listened intently, then she smiled a satisfied smile as she heard the gentle clos- ing of the front door, then the creaking of the parlor door, a movement of chair, and the subdued murmur of voices. ‘‘He’s come, ’’ she nodded across the table to her husband. He looked up from his paper somewhat blankly. ‘“Who’s he ?’’ he queried. She dropped her sewing into her lap and glanced at him reproachfully through her glasses. ‘‘Julius Newcomb, you don’t mean to say you ain’t never noticed that Seth Reynold’s been coming here steady ever since last Easter-time, when he came home from the concert at the church with Emeline? Every Sunday, and holidays too. You don’t mean to say you ain’t never noticed that, Julius? and your own daughter, too. It seems to me you don’t seem to show much interest in such things. Maybe you’ve forgot you were young once, but I ain’t.”’ The touch of asperity in her voice died out, as his clear blue eyes rested on her. “Why, bless you, Marilla,’’ he replied, dropping the paper and breaking into a smile, ‘‘how you do go off half-cock—just same’s you used to when you was young and I was courting you, and you used to go off at nothing, just like you do now. You ain’t changed one mite.”’ “Well, if you ain’t interested—’’ she began. *‘Tain’t that at all,”’ he went on, good- naturedly. ‘‘Here I was a-reading a piece about expansion, and you suddenly say, ‘He’s come.” Now how on earth was I to know who ‘he was?” I warn’t a-listening and I expect you was, of course,” as she nodded assent. ‘“That’s all right and natural. You was expecting him, and I was away off in the Philippines. That’s the difference.”’ ‘‘Well, did you know it?’ she insisted. ‘I ain’t totally blind,”’ he retorted. ‘‘And I guess there doesn’t any man come Lere to see our Emeline without me knowing it, even if I am stupid. Maybe you think I didn’t know that Joe Belcher was coming here once pretty steady, then stopped short? Well, Idid, ’causeI sent him home one night.” ‘You did?’’ Marilla leaned her elbows on the table and her eyes sparkled. ‘‘Well, I never!” “I don’t tell everything I know,’’ her husband continued, ‘‘but I guess I keep sharp enough lookout on our girl, Marilla. She’s too much like you to have fellows who ain’t worth while a-calling round. So I just followed that young Belcher out one night, and told him he didn’t need to call any more. And he hasn’t, has he?”’ ‘‘No, never once,’’ Marilla answered ex- citedly. ‘“‘And I'm glad of it. Only I wouldn't have wanted to say anything about it, ’cause, you know, she might feel kind of interested in him. It’s natural for young girls to like to receive attention, Julius, and I wouldn’t want to be respon- sible. But it’s different with you, Julius —you’re the head of the family, of course.’’ ‘‘She didn’t care nothing about him,”’ Julius replied, hastily. ‘‘She had too much sense. Emeline’s dreadfully like you, Marilla. You couldn’t never abide flighty sort of men, could you, Marilla?’’ His wife laughed consciously. ‘‘You're kind of praising up yourself, ain’t you, Julius? Just as if you were the only like- ly fellow I had a chance to get. I guess you forgot about the others, seeing ’tis so long ago.”” She glanced at him coquettish- ly. ‘‘But you didn’t forget it then. You was about as persistent a fellow as ever I did see. I guess I liked you for that pret- ty well. I never could abide folks who didn’t know their own mind, and when they did, couldn't stick to it.” ‘‘You can’t say that about me, Marilla. I knew from the very first time I ever set eyes on you. I just said to myself, ‘There she is’; and I remember I thought how nice you’d look sitting down opposite me at the table all our own. I ain’t never changed my mind since.” He looked at her across the table; then he rose clumsily and walked around and leaned over her. ‘“‘You’re just as pretty now as you was then,’’ he declared, as he passed his rough hand over her hair with its broad streaks of gray. ‘‘You’ve grown older, I s’pose, Marilla, seeing Emeline’s old enough to pars a beau, but it don’t seem so, does t? ‘No, it don’t,” she replied, pressing her cheek for a moment against his grizzly one. “It don’t seem no time at all. I can re- member so well all about how kind of poud I felt a-walking outwith you that first Sunday, and wondering if the other girls didn’t wish they'd got you. You were a pretty likely fellow then, Julius.” There was a silence for a moment, while the corner clock ticked@oudly. ‘We're dreadful foolish, ain’t we, Jul- ins?’ suddenly drawing away from him, and trying to subdue the gleam in her eyes. ‘Emeline a-being courted in the parlor there, and her father and mother, like two old fools, a-spooning here in the kitchen!” They laughed together. The door suddenly opened, and Emeline walked in. They had not heard her foot- steps. There was a silence. *‘He ain’t gone so soon, is he?’’ her mother queried, with a nod in the direc- tion of the parlor, while Julius sank into a chair by his wife’s side. There was a bright flush on the girl’s young face. ‘‘No; I—that is, can we have some cookies and a glass of water?”’ Her voice was a bit abstracted. Her mother jumped nimbly to her feet. “Of course,”’ she replied, cheerfully. *“This last batch was extra good, Emeline, and I guess Seth’ll like them first rate. You pump some good cold water, Julius, and hand down the best glasses from the top shelf in the closet there.”’ She bustled into the pantry, and gave her husband a knowing look as she pass- ed. ‘‘Look atthatdress, will you Julius,” she whispered. When the girl was gone, Marilla faced her husband. “New dress?’’ he queried, comprehend- ingly. ‘‘She looks mighty well in it, too, She’s a pretty likely-looking girl, isn’t she Marilla?”’ “But youn didn’t notice anything partica- lar about the dress?’ she insisted. “Some purple stripes and kind of flower- ed, wasn’t it?’ “4Yes.”? ‘Reminds me of something you had once, Marilla.” ‘‘Really?”’ “Kind of. IfI was only guessing, I'd say you had it on one Sunday night when something peculiar happened—something very particular, Marilla.”’ He looked fondly at the faded wife by his side, and his hand stole out and took hers in his, while her thimble fell from her finger and rolled along the bare floor. “I guess I looked at that pattern long enough. The flowers kept a-jiggling and the stripes a-chasing each other. I s’pose I was nervous. I won't ever forget it.”’ “I made it over on purpose.”’ “For Emeline?”’ “Yes.” ‘And you kind of hoped—"’ “I g’pose ’twas silly, but I thought it might help them along. It did us.” He laughed a hearty laugh, which he tried to suppress. ‘You are a great wom- an, Marilla,”” he declared. ‘‘Emeline won’t ever come up to you nohow, even if she is my daughter.” *Sh.”’ They listened, and heard the door close quietly. Then there was a long silence. “I know how she feels,”’ Marilla whisp- ered. ‘Kind of hot and cold, and glad and cryey, and’s if things were all kind of upset anyhow.” “And he wishes he’d kissed her once more,’’ Julius added, ‘‘and thinks what an eternal fool he was not to ask her before.”’ The girl’s footsteps sounded along the entry. Julius began to wind up the clock. Marilla picked up her thimble. Emeline entered shyly, then went straight to her mother and put her arms around her neck. ‘‘Something nice has happened,’’ she said in an audible whisper. Marilla held her close and stroked the sunny hair, and looked at her husband. He drew nearer, and put one arm around his wife, the other around his daughter. “Something nice happened once before,’ he remarked, dryly, fingering a bit of the flowered delaine.—By Harriet Caryl Cox, in Harper's Bazar. The Thermometer. How the Very Jseful Article Came to be Invented. In September, 1738, Gabriel Daniel Fahr- enheit died in Holland, probably at Am- sterdam, in which city he had settled many years previously, and where he found more suitable scope for his scientific researches than at Dantzig, the great seaport in North- east Germany, where he was born on May 14, 1686. Till just before the seventeenth century men could estimate the tempera- ture by their personal feelings only, but sevéyal attempts were then made to meas- ure the degree of heat or cold by tubes con- taining spirits of wine, oil and other sub- stances. Instead of the first and all of these, Fahrenheit in 1714 substituted mer- cury or quicksilver, which is a metal nat- urally fluid. He selected for his scale as zero (a name derived from the same Arabic word as ‘“‘cipher,’’ and signifying ‘‘nothing’’) the lowest temperature observed by him at Dantzig during the winter of 1709, which he found was that produced by mixing equal quantities of snow and salammoniac, or common salt, and the space between this point and that to which the mercury rose when expanded by the heat equal to that of boiling water, or plunging the ther- mometer into boiling water, he divided about the year 1720 into 212 parts. Doubtless the selection of the freezing point of water as zero, which was made about 1730 by Rane Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur, who lived from February 28, 1683, till October 17, 1757, was simpler, readier, more familiar, and natural. The system was adopted also in 1742 by An- ders Celsius, the Swedish astronomer and physicist, who lived from 1701 till 1756, and whose thermometer is divided into 100 degrees between the freezing point and boiling point of water, as Reaumur’s is di- vided into 80. It is, therefore, generally distinguished as the ‘‘centigrade’’ or of a ‘hundred steps,’’ and is the one employ- ed in other parts of the European conti- nent, and for international purposes. Deficit is $109,300,288. Treasury Receipts for April Fell $15,400,000 Below Those of March 1 Treasury receipts for April fell $15,400,- 000 below those for March, while the ex- penditures were $22,800,000 more than those for the month previous. This great difference does not, however, indicate eith- er a large falling off in the ordinary receipts or a large increase in the ordinary expen- ditures. The receipts for March were in- creased by the payment to the Government of nearly $12,000,000 on account of Pacific railway settlement, while the expenditures for April were increased by the drawing of the warrants for the payment of $20,000,- 000 to Spain. The deficit for the fiscal year to date amounts to $109,300,288. The monthly statement of the public debt shows that at the close of business, April 29, 1899, the debt less cash in the treasury amounted to $1,172,587,264, an increase during the month of $23,081,701. The monthly comparative statement shows that the total receipts for April, 1899, were $41,611,587, an increase as com- pared with April, 1898, of about $8,600,- 000. The expenditures were $65,949,105, an increase over April last year of $31,- 700,000. Included in the expenditures is the payment of $20,000,000 to Spain. The total receipts for the 10 months of the present year were $424,056,014, as compar- ed with $340,926,950 for the same period in the last fiscal year. The expenditures for the last 10 months aggregate $533,451, 409 as compared with $347,673,195 for the same period last year. : The expenditures on account of the war department since July 1, 1898, aggregate $210,645,536; on account of the navy de- partment $55,522,804. The amount of cash payments already made on account of the war is approximated at from $273,- 000,000 to $75,000,000. ——President McKinley left Washington Monday for the Hot Springs of Virginia. He has a slight attack of rheumatism. He will stay two weeks in Virginia. The American Weapon. Story of the Rifle, Its Growth and its Victories.— Believed to have Been Imported From the Tyrol to Its First Home in Lancaster.—Washington's Weapon. In the rise and growth of the American republic two instruments were among the most potent factors that entered into its making—the rifle and the woodsman’s axe. The one subdued the wild beasts and the wilder men who menaced every step to- ward the golden West; the other opened up the forest wilds to the light of civilization. It was the American sharpshooter and his deadly rifle that gave his country the vie- tory at Saratoga, at Yorktown, at New Orleans. Again at Santiago and Manila, the American volunteers and regulars owed their victories in great part to their skill with the long range small bore rifie. The rifle is believed to have come to America from the Austro-German Tyrol about 1730, or possibly a year or two earli- er. There is no authentic memorandum relating to this matter in the congressional library at Washington. The first we know of the rifle, it was being made in Philadel- phia and at Lancaster, by the two gunsmiths, named Decherd or Dechert and Leman, about 1730. The arm then turned out was a short barrelled, clumsy piece, having a heavy flintlock and a flat, ungainly, badly made stock. The latter, as it improved and grew graceful, was carved into all sorts of figures along its sides and front, as German, Swiss and Ty- rolese rifles are carved to-day. American skill and genius soon changed the form of the rifle stock and barrel, until good Peter Decherd and Heinrich Leman would never have known their offspring as remodelled by restless Americans. The German rifle was loaded with a mallet to start the bullet with, and often to drive it down. The American at once realized the value of the arm that gave such accuracy to its projectiles, but he was fully aware no man had time to be pounding an obsti- nate ball into a barrel with ‘‘a screeching Indian devil,” as good old Cotton Mather characterized his brother in red, reaching for him with a tomahawk. So the linen or buckskin patch was devised. It soon ap- peared that the piece shot truer and much farther with this device than it did when the bullet was battered out of shape by be- ing driven down with a mallet and the iron ram rod that was invented hy old Leopold of Dessau for the military mus- ket. The new arm, changed and adapted to the needs of the time, hecame wonderfully popular, particularly in Pennsylvania and among the colonies to the southward. Its popularity did not extend into New Eng- land. In the first place, the Indians were pretty thoroughly subdued along the Mass- achusetts and Connecticut coast before the rifle was introduced into America. The big and dangerous game was also becoming scarce and being fast driven back in the great forests along with the red man. Then, too, the Puritan was not a hunter or a lov- er of the chase, as was the Pennsylvanian, the Marylander, and above all, the Vir- ginian. [He regarded the hunter asa being averse to manual labor—shiftless was the word—a person who was setting a bad ex- ample to the young, and one not to be en- couraged in his practices. Every able- bodied man in New England owned a gun, because he had to, but it was the regula- tion musket of the period, for the law made every citizen able to bear arms a militia- man and a soldier on occasion, and these same muskets were used most valiantly at Bunker Hill, Lexington and Concord; but the Yankee was not a rifleman. The old Queen Anne piece,made when Marlborough was winning the victories of Dettingen, Oudenarde and Malplaquet, would shoot ducks and much small game, as many New England boys now alive could testify if need be, and that sufficed. It was not until the Connecticut Pur- chase and Western Reserve in the far away Ohio came to be settled by farmers from the old New England States that the Yan- kee became a rifleman. Food was scarce in the new settlements, while wild game was abundant. The old Queen’s arm re- quired a terrific charge of powder, with an equal quantity of shot, and then it some- times failed in its effectiveness. No man learned more readily than did the New Englander, and when he saw how deer, wild turkeys and squirrels were brought down with the rifle with one-quarter or even one-sixth the charge of powder of the old family musket and a modicum of the lead, why, he, took to the rifle and was soon a crack shot. The rifle became so popular in the South that a factory for making the hunting rifle was established at Charlottesville, N. C., about 1740. Its founders came from Leman’s rifle factory, at Lancaster, which is in existence to this day (not mow.) The arms turned out there were unquestionably the best, because the most carefully con- structed rifle, made in America. “‘Gen. Washington’s favorite weapon was the rifle,” says George W. Parke Custis, Washington’s step-son, in a most inter- esting little personal memorandum, printed by Mr. Custis for private distribution sev- eral years before his death. °‘‘He, soon after the revolution, received a fine Eng- lish ducking gun as a gift from some Brit- ish admirers, but up to his death he pre- ferred to use the rifle, and was a good shot. His piece was one presented to him in 1787 by Major Nicholas of his staff, who was with his chief at every battle of the 1evo- lution but one, and he was absent then he- cause he was wounded. This rifle was made in Charlottesville, N. C. It is four feet in length of barrel, and forty-two of its bullets weigh one pound. The wood extends the full length of the barrel and the entire arm is handsomely mounted with silver. The lock is beautiful work® I have known the general to kill at 150 yards with this rifle.”’ : This shooting was equal to the best work of the muzzle-loader of the latter half of this century. This same Charlottesville rifle-making firm in 1777 presented to Gen. Washington the finest and undoubtedly the first pair of rifled pistols ever made in America. They had 12-inch barrels carry- ing a half-ounce ball and would shoot with the accuracy of a rifle at fifty or sixty yards. They saved the general's life at Germantown, but the story, thongh a most interesting one, does not helong here. When the American Revolution broke out there were only three rifle makers in the colonies. They were the two named in Philadelphia and Lancaster, and the one at Charlottesville, N. C. Though there was but one military organization in the Continental army armed with rifles— Morgan’s Riflemen—jyet all the scouts and irregulars — mostly from Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and the Carolinas— carried rifles. Gen. Daniel Morgan’s rifle regiment was 800 strong, with ten compan- ies. No man could be admitted to it who was not the owner of a good rifle and ahle to shoot to the satisfaction of the rather critical commander. In every skirmish line of the revolution these riflemen made their deadly marks; in fact, so deadly did their shapshooting become that the English | : tei officers entertained an almost superstitions dread of them. Said Prevost in his mem- oirs—a little volume about the war printed in London in 1802: ‘These Americans had riflemen. They hit a man anywhere they liked at 200 paces distance. We came to dread them far more than the regular Continentals. At King’s Mountain they destroyed us.” Prevost was an English captain who in- herited a fortune about 1789 and retired from the service. His book is one of the most interesting of printed personal narra- tives relative to the Revolutionary war. The first rifles made in America did not have the double or set trigger. They were occasionally made with hair triggers like duelling pistols. The double trigger was introduced into this country from Germany some time during the war of the revolu- tion. A beautifully made rifle with 1787 stamped into the barrel has double triggers. It is full stocked, silver mounted and its lock is an admirable piece of work. Its barrel is 42 inches long and the bullets would weigh about 40 to the pound. American inventive genius and the al- terations suggested by experience soon im- proved the rifle very much. The turn of the rifling was reduced, as was the length of the barrel. Great attention was paid to accuracy, and by the end of the eighteenth century our rifle makers were astonishing all Europe, particularly rifle shooting Ger- many and the Austrian Tyrolese, with the wonderful accuracy of their weapons. It is safe to say that, while the range of the grooved barrel has been vastly increased, the deadly accuracy of the arm within its limitations has never been greater than it was at the beginning of the present cen- tury. Then every able-bodied man west of the Alleghenies and south of the great lakes was a rifleman. He had to be. It was a necessity of the time. Game was to be found everywhere, and was a valuable addition to the food supply of the pioneer. The skins of all wild game animals possess- ed a permanent and ready market value. Then there were wolves, panthers,foxes and other beasts which had fur and could only be taken with the rifle. Besides this there was the ever present danger of an Indian outbreak. Thus the importance of the weapon grew with every new State. An- other thing aided greatly in making the rifle the national weapon. Every State add- ed to the original thirteen except Maine, New Hampshire and Louisiana, was won from the savage owners by the American backwoodsmen armed with the incompara- ble American rifle. What would Sevior and Robertson have done in Tennessee or Henderson and Boone in Kentucky with- out their unerring rifle? In 1790 a skilled workman, or better, perhaps, gunsmith, from Charlottesville, N. C., went to Kentucky to see if there might not he a good opening for one skilled in his craft. He found it, at the settle- ment of Harrodsburg, a post founded by Col. James Harrod. The workman's name was Mills. He was of American lineage and had served with Morgan's riflemen in the revolution. A good rifle then cost $25, a large amount, as money was scarce; a sum easily equal to $100 now. It was not easy work to make a true shooting arm then. The gunsmith in many instances had to make his own bar- rels, to get the iron bar straight and bore it true, then rifle, it and finally make his stock, triggers, and very often the lock. When it was finished the rifle was tested with the nicest care. Men'’s lives depended upon its shooting true. No wonder it was an expensive arm. About the beginning of this century the importing of the gun- locks from London began, but they were expensive. Still, they were the best that could be bad, though they cost $5 each then, equal to $20 now. The new industry in Kentucky prosper- ed. Mr. Mills had to add to his force and take in blacksmiths who had a taste for finer work, to learn rifle making and make hunting knives. About this time an ad- venturous gunsmith from Leman’s, at Lan- caster, who had learned his trade, es- tablished a gunshop at Chillicothe, O., and prospered ; but for years no maker of rifles west of the mountains had the vogue of Mills. He armed Col. Richard M. Johps- ton’s Kentucky regiment of mounted rifle- men, which won the battle of the Thames, and ended the war of 1812. He equipped that fearless band of scouts and back woods- men that held the first line until General Harrison could get his regiment into action at the battle of Tippecanoe. Great is the American rifle, for it has been the instru- ment that has made our civilization to tri- umph and hasadded thirty-twostates to the original Union. While the hunting rifle was thus con- quering the golden ‘West, the breech load- ing rifle was being slowly created by a pro- cess of evolution. The first breech loading rifle ever made in the world that had prac- tical use was an American invention. It was patented by Hall, a resident of Cape Cod, Mass., in 1811. The principle was a novel one and could be used in small bores or rifles. The invention did not become popular. although rifles were made in 1815 under the Hall patent that did excellent work at ranges considerably beyond the muzzle loader of the time. The American rifle became famous all over Europe after the battle of New Or- leans, where, with the deadly American weapon in the hands of Kentuckians and Tennesseeans, the English lost 2,117, two- thirds killed, out of about 6,000 men en- gaged, and the Americans six killed and seven wounded. The English were all shot at from sixty to forty yards distance. No wonder Wellington did not believe the story of England’s loss when he heard it. With the introduction of the percussion cap into America in the thirties came a distinct improvement in rifles. These great makers, Morgan James and Billinghurst, of New York, and some excellent mechanics in Massachusetts became famous all over the United States for fine work on hunting and target rifles. In the West, Hawkins, St. Louis, acquired a fame that extended from the great Santa Fe trading post at St. Joseph, Mo., on the Missouri, to far-off Oregon; while in the South, though there were some excellent local artisans, Mills, of Harrodsburg, for years had the best of trade. He made a short 30-inch barrel rifle, with a shotgun butt, for bear hunt- ing that was deservedly popular, as it could be easily handled in thick-growing cane. With the close of the great war in 1865, the muzzle-loader passed away. Before this, Colt and Sharp had made capital breech-loading arms, but they were not generally known or used outside of the mounted military service. The first arm using the metallic cartridge was the Spen- cer, which was introduced into the Union army through the efforts of James G. Blaine in 1863. About the same time came the Henry, the progenitor of the world- known Winchester, as renowned in East Indian wilds and on South African veldts as among our own far Western mountains and plains. One great objection to the breech-loader at first was. that it did not shoot with the accuracy of the muzzle-loader. The Ameri- can wants hisrifle to place its bullet where it is sighted, and to-day the Winchester and Marlin companies can turn out repeat- ers that will hold their own with the best muzzle-loaders, while the single-shot arms | of both Winchester and Stevens are mar- vels for accuracy. It has been a cause of regret to every American who has considered the matter that the United States army should have thought best to adopt a Scandinavian- American rifle,instead of staying in its own country to get its weapon. Catching Sardines. A Large and Prefitablie Industry and Some Curious Features. The 1898 sardine is now on the market. The fishing season begins early in June and is now successful in places along the Atlantic coast and on Puget sound. The coasts of Norway and Brittany, in France, are the scenes of the heaviest takes, and the grade of sardines obtained there is superior. As soon as the fishermen notice shoals of porpoises or flocks of seagulls off shore sail is made immediately, for the sardine is there. A curious thing about this kind of fish- ing is that one rarely sees a living sardine out of the water. The fish make a little squeak when taken from the water and die instantly. Of the 250 or 300 fishing boats fitted out at Belle isle about 200 belong to Calais and the othersjto Louzon. It is in these two ports that the French fishermen sell their fish. An ordinary catch of sardines gives to each boat from 8,000 to 10,000 fish and the price is regu- lated by the quantity brought in by the first comers. Seven francs a thousand is a fair price. During the sardine season ahout 300 women and 50 men anxiously await the ar- rival of the first boats. If there are no fish there is no work for them. When the news arrives that the boats have their welcome cargoes the women, in their picturesque costumes, rush to the can- nery like a flock of frightened sheep, and each takes her place in the great room, where the fish undergo their first prepara- tion. Here the sardines are spread upon the table and sprinkled with salt. Then they are cleaned, and when that operation is finished they are sorted by little boys and carried into another part of the establish- ment, where they are put in pickle. After this the fish aie washed and placed one by one, with great care, upon wire nets, called “*grills,”’ and put out to dry in the open air. If the weatheris wet or even foggy this operation is impossible, except for fertilizing. The tins in which the sardines are then packed are carried to the oiling room, where the last manipulation consists of filling them with oil. It is in this part of the establishment that the tomato sauce and the spices are placed in the boxes, which give to the French preparation their universal renown. In any one of the important establish- ments the sardines are prepared and ex- ported 10 hours after coming out of the water. Gourmets should never eat newly prepared sardines. They have neither the perfume nor the flavor of those which have lain in the boxes for a year. What the War is Costing. The expenditure of the government in the last ten months was $533,356,303 against $313.763,882 in the corresponding ten months ending April 30th, 1897. This includes the $20,000,000 just paid to Spain for the right to subdue the Filipinos. The increase is largely due to the larger outlay on army and navy. In April, May and June, 1898, for example, the outgo for army and navy was $54,984,376 more than in the like months of 1897. Adding this sum to the figures given for the ten months the audited expenditure for the war so far appears to have been $275,5677,797. But many large bills remain to be paid, and the pensions due to the Spanish war have hard- ly begun to be collected. It is not an ex- pensive estimate to put the cost of the war, all told, at over $500,000,000, and the re- sultant expenditure, due to the changed foreign policy introduced by the war, at two or three times that sum. And all this with a promised treasury deficiency of $140,000,000 in June. Nor is this all. Above and beyond mon- ey values we must include the lives of American soldiers sacrificed in the wild craze of the imperialists for conquest and subjugation. The last report of General Otis shows a largely increased number of casualties, including 21 killed in battle, so that the war in the Philippines is now costing us much more than the war in the West Indies, and the end is not yet. The dreaded season of the year has just set in. And what is it all about? Can anyone tell? President McKinley declines to de- clare a policy. He declines to call Congress together to formulate a policy and thus we are left with a useless extravagant war on our hands. Refused to Pardon a Wife Murderer. Governor Roosevelt, of New York, denied the application for a pardon for Henry Hendricks, who is serving a life sentence in Auburn prison for the killing of his wife, whom he shot to death because of his mad infatuation for another woman. Hen- dricks is 60 years old, has served 22 years of his sentence. On the trial the jury stood 11 to 1 for conviction for murder in the first degree but the odd man remaining firm in his position a compromise was af- fected whereby Hendricks received a life sentence. From the remarks made by the Governor wife murderers, wife beaters and those who cruelly treat children and dumb animals will receive no mercy at his hands upon application for pardons or commutation of sentences. The Governor is a strong advo- cate of the establishment of a whipping post for such as these, and says if such a bill is passed in the Legislature next year he will sign it. ——A bright gmploye of the central post office with a mathematical turn of mind has made an interesting calculation show- ing the extent of the circulation of last year’s issue of two cent stamps. The issue amounted to 2,500,000,000 common red two cent stamps. If placed in succession the issue would form a belt reaching almost twice around the world, aud stacked one upon another they would reach 150 miles beyond our atmosphere. In bulk the issue would equal in weight two of our big locomotives, and if made into a single sheet would make a blanket large enough to cover Philadelphia. If these stamps were worked in relays, each taking the let- ter as far as allowed by the postal regu- lations, the letter would be carried beyond the most distinct star. Miss Peachblow—Was your marriage to old Moneybagges the result of love at first sight? Mrs. Moneybagges—No, of thought. second TT A i Woman Treed a Bear. And Kept it There Until the Arrival of Her Hus- { band. Mrs. McClean Gorham whose home is | near the village of Brookside, Lycoming { county, had a thrilling experience with a black bear a few days ago. The story as told by the Williamsport Sun is that she was down in the field some ten or twelve rods from the house and only | a rod or so from the woods, when her little | dog began snuffing and snarling. The dog { kept this up, and Mrs. Gorham went to the | fence to see what was the matter. Just { across the run was a black bear tussling with the dog. When bruin saw her, how- ever, he started off up the hill with the cur following at his heels. Conclud- ing that it might be more comfortable for him, the bear climbed a big hemlock which stood nearby. : Now that the bear was treed Mrs. Gor- ham determined he should stay there until her husband would come home, but she was in a quandary how to keep him up the tree. If she went to the house for a pistol and ax, the dog would follow her and brain could come down before she could get back. But remembering where she had seen a chain at the barn only five or six rods away, she quickly brought it and tied the dog to the tree. Then she ran to the house for the ax and pistol. Having secured these she took her place under the tree and wait- patiently the return of her husband. The bear was treed at 8:30 o’clock a. m. and it was high noon before Mr. Gorham put in his appearance, and killed the bear. _ Mrs. Gorham held her ground all the time, and now a pair of paws and a black skin adorn one end of her springhouse as trophies of her fearlessness and bravery. Used Counterfeits. Nearly 50,000,000 Cigars Were Falsely Stamped. _ Cigar dealers will be interested in learn- ing that an accurate estimate has been made by the secret officers and the internal revenue agents as to the total number of cigars sent out from the Jacobs factories in Lancaster bearing counterfeit stamps. This has been done by comparing the records of shipments in the books of the Jacobs factories with the records of the in- ternal revenue offices as to the number of stamps sold to these factories. This com- parison shows that about 45,000,000 cigars have been sent out with counterfeit stamps since 1896, when the use of the stamp is believed to have commenced. In 1896 counterfeit stamps were used on about 8,000,000 cigars. In 1897 on about 19,00,000 and in 1898 and in 1899 on ahout 18,000,000. _ A large holder of cigars purchased from Jacobs and Kendig and hearing counterfeit stamps has made application to the com- missioner of internal revenue at Washing- tongto modify conditions contained in his recent circular letter, requiring innocent holders of these cigars to pay the tax be- fore releasing the same from seizure, upon the ground that the government was, for a considerable time, aware of the existence of the counterfeit stamps and their use be- fore the guilty parties were arrested and their factories seized. The commissioner admitted that the re- lief thus claimed was based upon strong equitable grounds. : The Crowning Disgrace of the Century. From the Altoona Times. In the most cold-blooded manner, the government of the United States agreed to purchase the Philippine islands from Spain. After the form of buying these people has been gone through with, we are now at- tempting to subjugate them. Last Sunday a meeting was held in Chicago for the pur- pose of protesting against the manner in which the government of the United States is treating the Filipinos. A series of reso- lutions was adopted and all of them are pertinent and appropriate. One of them we quote here: We insist that the forcible subjugation of a purchased people is ‘criminal aggression” and open disloyalty to the distinctive principles of our government. That quotes Mr. McKinley himself and states the truth tersley and plainly. The most hopeful now entertain the hope that the Filipinos will submit to our rule with- out further fighting. Still no one denies that they are well armed and that, not- withstanding that they have been invari- ably defeated by our forces and have sus- tained severe loses, they oppose our army all along the line. Even considering these facts, some imagine that they are now ready to have peace and submit at once to our authority. First Wife's Ghost in Divorce. Mrs. Rivenburg Horrified by a Wraith at Preston Hollow. ghost of her husband’s first wife, Mrs. Anna C. Rivenberg, of Preston Hollow, New York, demands a separation from her husband, with a stipulated allowance. She declares that the wraith of the for- "mer Mrs. Rivenburg made a wild nightly tour of the Rivenburg household, wept and wailed, banged doors and generally upset the mental poise of her successor. The case is in the hands of City Judge George Addington, and the hearing is set for May 12th in Albany. ——Ever since the founding of St. Vin- cent’s Monastery, in Westmoreland coun- ty, the Benedictine brothers have manu- factured a beer that was celebrated for its quality. It was brewed on the old-time principles, and from $60,000 to $75,000 worth was sold each year to the retail trade. Four years ago the National Catholic Total Abstinence Society began a vigorous crusade against the St. Vincent brewery, but without avail. Threats were even made that an appeal would be made to the Pope, in the hope that His Holiness would order the abolishment of the manufacture. The threat was given no consideration by the Brothers, however, but the manu- facture of the beer at St. Vincent’s was dis- continued voluntarily one week ago, when the liquor license year in Westmoreland county ended, and a renewal license was not applied for. There is a theory that the new Pittsburg Brewing Trust had paid $150,000 to have the manufacturing of beer at the monastery come toan end. —In Pennsylvania when a married woman having no children dies without. a will the hushand takes all her personal property absolutely, and all her real estate for his life. If the wife leaves a will, he may either take what the will gives him, or one-half of the personal property abso- lately and one-half of the real estate for life. A man is not required by law to leave any of his property to his children. He may disinherit any or all of them. Good-by, old Furnace, see yer later How are yer, friend Refrigerator? Because she fancies that she saw the -
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