Bellefonte, P2., Feb. 2, 1906. WEDDING SUPERSTITIONS. Married in January's hoar and rime, Widowed you'll be before your prime, Married in February's sleety weather, Life you'll tread in tune together. Married when March winds shrill and roar, Your home will lie on a foreign shore, Married ‘neath April's changeful skies, A checkered path before you lies. Married when bees o'er May blossoms flit, Strangers around your board will sit. Married in month of roses—June— Life will be one long honeymoon. Married in July, with flowers ablaze, Bitter-sweet mem’ries in after days. Married in August's heat and drowse, Lover and friend your chosen spouse, Married in golden September's glow Smooth and serene your life will go. Married when leaves in October thin, Toil and hardship for you begin. Married in veils of November mist, Fortune your wedding ring has kissed, Married in days of December cheer, Love's star shines brighter from year to year. From Old Rhyme, Unfortanates. A clock ean run, but cannot walk ; My shoe has a tongue, but cannot talk ; A comb has teeth, but has no mouth ; A north wind blows thesmoke straight south. Bottles have necks, bu have no heads ; And pins have heads, but have no necks ; And needles have to hold their threads Right in their eyes—how it must vex. If I were a needle, comb or shoe, 1 never should know what todo; My head is really ina whirl I'm glad I am a little girl. ~— Boston Herald, THE SOLVENT, They ate their dinner almost in silence that night. ‘‘Let’s come out into the park for a while,”” Ocrlway suggested, excited- ly, as they left the dining foom. ‘‘We skan’t have to start before nine.” The seat overlookivg the river where, in the summer season, they had always pre- ferred to exchange their daily confidences, was empty. Dwight Ordway threw him- sell into is with a sigh of relief, taking his hat off in welcome to the slight breeze that floated languidly over the water. His thin dark face was white with the fatigue of a long hot day, but a definite glow of hap ie ness brightened his eyes and drew his lips into a constant succession of smiles. ‘Oh, have the flowers come ?’’ he asked. “Yes, this'alternoon.”’ “Were they all righs ?”’ “Just what I wanted.’’ He laoghed a little. “‘I do want every- thing to be all right to-night. I know you're bound to make a sensation. If they only see you once at your best, I know they’ll never forges it. Cecilia, I can’s tell ou how happy I am that the deadlock is ken. Aunt Anne's dictum, you know, is final.” : Cecilia's brow contracted painfully as she looked into the glow of the sunset. *‘If you only knew how frightened I am,” she breathed. ‘“That’'s nonsense,’’ her husband insist. ed, briekly. ‘‘All you need is a chance to let them know you. It's lucky Aunt An- pa invited us this year. [ should never have given them another chance. I'd have taken you abroad. Cecilia shook her head. *‘I shouldn’s have gone,’’ she asserted, tremulously. *‘I never shonld have heen bappy anywhere until von had made np with yoor people. Never ! Never!" Ordway’s eyes grew tender as he looked at her. Then the langh twinkled in them again. “I went into the store to see the girls to-day.’ she said. : “Yes.” Her husband’s tone was ab- sent. : *“They’d heard —I don’t know how—all abouts the invitation.” ‘“There was something in the papers the other night,’’ Ord way said, frowning. Cecilia sighed. “Ob, I wish the papers would leave me alone. Sometimes I think they will never get through with me. Oth- er millionaires have married workiog-girls and been disinherited and after a while it's been forgotten. But they never forget me.’! ‘‘It's because you are different.’ “If hating it makes me different, I am different.”” Her knitted brows smoothed themselves out. ‘The girls were all so glad for me, fent every message they could think of to yon, They asked me about a thousand questions. They made me promise that I'd come in and tell them all abous is.2. «v0 ‘You must be sure-to doit.” “I shan’t forget. Oh—and;, Dwight, I asked Delia Kelly to take up French with me vext winter. She's crazy to learn. She thinks she could work into a buyer's position if she only knew French, and I guess she could. There's going to be a va- cancy soover or later, and if she’s only read aa—T7 by don’t yon form a class and in- vite the whole five to join ?”’ Ordway sug- . “I'll pay the bills.” Cecilia's eyee sparkled. “Ob Dwight, would you? 1 never thought of anything like that. Bat I'd simply love to. I want #0 much to share! I've bad so much—I don’t deserve itall. I don’t know wheth- er they'd all care. But some of them will. I'll go in to-morrow and tell them all about it. You dear, to think of sucha sweet thing I" Impulsively she bent over and kissed him. ‘“They’re a bright ses,” Ordway said. *‘They deserve a chance to——Bat I'm not thinking so much of that as that they in- troduced me to yon. I'G send them all through college to pay back that score. Webs I suppose we ought to be getting ready. The happy lovk faded ous of Cecilia's aya “Yes, I suppose so.’ She arose slowly. By the time they had reentered their lit- tle apartment, her face was white avd she waa trembling in every limb. An hoar later the tremble had all gone, and a gliating glow, that transformed it, was ing over her face. She stood with her before her mirrorand as frank- 1y as he surveyed the reflection in it. Beoause her figare was a natural one, it seemed a little Inrge, hut it was both vig- orous and womanly. The gold of her bair and the blue of her eyes were, at fire, a little startling, but the sweetness of her expression, the tenderness of ber sudden bro oy made the difference between a hand- some face and a beautiful one. Her gown was of a silk so thin and soft that it could be pulled through a ring—a lustzous, float- ing white. Her arms and neck were bare. Her only jewels were the pearls of a quaint necklace that fell away from ber milky throat in a multitude of pendant strands. She held a huge bunch of sweet peas. “Oh, I am like them, I am like them !" she exclaimed, happily. “I'm not a bis afraid now, not a single bit." “I'm proud of you,” ber husband said, briefly. “Oh,” she said “later, in the carriage, ‘‘yon don’t know how I've tried these three years, Dwight !"’ Her voice vibrat- ed with feeling. “I’ve never walked on the street once without studying the wo- men—your kind, I mean—to see what was the difference. Whenever I’ve bought anything, I've made myself choose the | P simplest. And I’ve kept such a watch on myself; I've been so careful about bad grammar and slang, my voice and even my laugh. I havea little book at home, and I put down everything I learn in it. And I’ve listened so hard toall the things you've told me. OI course, the studying you've made me do was a great help, but my little book was a greater one. It’s full now. Ob, it’s so childish; I was ashamed of it at first. I was #0 afraid that you might bappen to find it. But now I loves.” Ordway had taken her hand. He wateh- ed her kindled face emerge from the dark- ness and then sink into gloom again as the carriage plunged through the silvery shafts of light flung, in parallel rows, from the street-lamps. Cecilia wae silent after the sudden pour of her long monologue, She held her hus- band’s band the rest of the way, even after they had left the carriase and were walk- idg down the long piazza of the huge old ouse. “‘Let's not go in yes,” she ed, as they neared the flare of brilliant light and moving figures that indicated the doorway. “I want to look in one of the windows first. I want you to poiut out some of the people tome. I'll be sure then to make no mistakes with she people who would mind—and there are so many of them. See —here’s a nice place.” Her voice had sunk to a whisper. Ordway silently slip- ped beside her into the nook formed by I a dozen tubs of small plants. The big room was asway in the vibra. tions that the dancers’ feet had unloosed. Of these there were almost too many. Their beautiful gowns formed a maelstrom of color that the swift movement blended, then blurred. It concealed for intervals the row of stately chaperons watchfally en- circling the dance. Through the closed window the strains of an inspiring $wo- step came dwindled and delicate. Sudden- ly these stopped, and the dance-ball, like & spent kaleidoscope, shook its scintillat- ing units tc rest against the confining walls. “Oh, there's your aant!” Cecilia ex- claimed. ‘‘Isn’t she stunning in that li- lac? [I've sold her gloves so many times. I wonder if she’ll remember me. They say ber memory is wonderful.” ‘If she’s seen you twice, she'll remem. ber you, you may be sure.” *‘And there are your mother and sisters,’’ Cecilin went on. ‘‘How sweet they look ! Oh, who is that pretty girl talking with them ?"’ *“The girl in blue? Ob, that's Natalie Oshorne. She's engaged to that old duoffer —ithe one that's just stopped dancing near her. It's an awfal shame that they let her do it. Bat ue hag twghe mat 2 penny, poor thing. e's always dead in love with Sears Winthrop, too, but he can’s afford to marry anybody.’ “Do you mean to say she’s going to mar- 1y an old man because the one she really loves hasn't money enough ?'’ ‘““There’s nothing else for her to do. Sears hasn't a sign of a prospect. Do yon see that tall girl in green? She'll be her stepdanghter. She's five years older than Natalie.” “Oh, go to her.'' Ceo-'iv said, breath- lessly, “‘and tell her, Dwight, shat you don’t need money 10 mary. Tell her how little we've lived on and how bappy we've been.’ Ordway smiled a lirtle. “My child, she wouldn't understand the language. She knows what she's dniug—it'sall of her own free will and aceo:d. Do yon see that retty lietle dink woman ? That's Mrs. win Chantry." i *“The one that was divorced 2" ‘Yes. They're hoth married again. He te ok the boy nud she took the girl.” ** Oh, why did they do it ?"’ . “Oh, they were just tired of each other. There was no special reason. I have hemd that she wanted a bigger yacht.” Ceoilia made a little inarticulate sound in her throat. Her eves had narrowed perplexedly. Her cheeks. had lost their blaze. ° “*Who is that queer-looking, elderly wo- man—the one with ali the emeralds 2’ she said, after a pauve. ; “Oh, that’s ‘Antiquity’ Ballant. She's the second richest woman here. They say Sears will have to warry her soover or later. She's tired of patting up for him. “Oh, don’t let kim; tell him, Dwight dear—how happy ** Her. voice flas- tered aeecond. Then it deepened and lowered. *'It's so easy to be happy, and it doesn’t coss HS “I's awful, isn’t it? I didn’t realize. Somehow, it all seemed npataral enough. I've always been accustomed to that sort of thing. But now, with you bere—"' “Who is that handsome woman in red 2’ Cecilia inquired next. Wu i ‘Mrs. Mainwaring Maynard. She was a show-girl. Maynard hought her from ber busband; they say. 1 guess he’s paid for her more than once. “Oh, don’t tell me any more about her. Who is that sweet little blonde girl ?"’ ‘“That’s Mrs. Richard Swain. That was a love-mateh. They were simply crazy about each other. Bat now they've obanged. So many of them do. Every- body says they'll be divorced before anoth- er year. J hat made yeu want to marry me ?"’ ‘‘Because you were so different. At first —- on I thoaghs I conldn’s. It was being at the Swaine’ and seeing their happiness that made me realize. 's why I am so sor- ry for them. He gave up a fortune to mar- | ry her. She was a typewriter in Blaok, Mellen & Co.'s. Taey began to quarrel after bis people took her up.” Cecilia caught ber Bh Her husband turned tc her. She stood stook-still, her lips parted ly, as if she won er breathe Sagica) And i» probing nity, glowing eyes gazed dumbly into | “I—dou’t—want—to— lose— you—=that way,’ she said, her breath escaping be- tween the words in a long strangling hiss. Ordway gazed back. As if an electric spark had lighted them from hers, his eyes fired, too. He moved and looked in the window again, his face changing. Then be turned to his wife and a smile sprang to his lips. Its fellow blossomed radiantly in her eyes and mouth. Their bands clasped. Then he led her to their carringe and they drove home. amar AP —Subeoribe for the WATCHMAN. Our Eastern Forests. With the first session of the new Con- gress the attention of every part of the country should be called to the various proposals which the National Forest Service and the various forestry boards of the sev- eral states bave prepared. It will be as well if every citizen can remember that such study and action as are are exactly what western Asia and northern Africa needed when their decline began. Because no such action was taken, because the forests of Asia Minor and of Syria and of northern Africa were destroyed, those lands are what they are. President Roose- velt, in his address at Raleigh, N. C., call- ed attention to this failure of those coun- tries, and he gives also the instance of China, an immense empire which owes its resent desolate condition to the destruc- tion of its forests. The nations around the Mediterranean were the centre of the civil- ization of the world. No cities were more prosperous thao theirs, no people were more proud or successful. And now, what were rivers then are but winter torrents, were cities then are straggling villages. A geveration ago, when the American Forestry Association was formed, Dr. Geo. | Bailey Loring, the head of the Department of Agriculture, said that he regarded the formation of that association as the most important movement which the American people bad started in those years. Thirty years bave justified his statements and rophecies. Indeed, the increase of our angers has awakened men from the indif- ference in this matter which marked the middle of the last century. As the readers of this journal know, evervoue who joined in the great conference at Washington last January, who saw that assembly or who heard the addresses made there, knows now that a general national interest has been awakened in the preservation of our forests, Railroad men, water-power men, repre. sentatives of hall a dozen great industiies, met together in the same great interest, What is especially important to be re- membered now, is the condition of forests, not in the Rocky Mountain watershed, but in thas of the Allegheny and the ranges eastward. Nothing shows the generosity of the na- tion more than the magnificent provision which it bas made for what was the Louis- iava of the Freoch, which is now that half of the United States west of the Mississippi river. In every state in that region, and in every territory, the general government has already established a mangnificent for- est reserve—in some instances more than one. Nothing shows the lavishness of our gen- erosity and the indifference of the majority to merely local selfishness more than the fact, which is itself carious, that on the east of the Mississippi, to the Atlantic ocean, there is no such reservation. At this moment the government is expending more than $20,000,000 for the proper irriga- tion of the arid regions of the West. But as this moment the general government is not ex ing five cents fi the regulation of the irrigation of the Oil I'hirteen States, or of the states born from them east of the Mississippi river. Yet the injury inflicted up commerce, upon travel, upon manufacsure, and upon agriculture, by the destruction of the for- ests of the eastern half of the continent will be, for a hundred years at least, greater than injary to the kindred interests in the western half. And these are injuries which affect sk 2 whole nation. The t state on the Pacific i* injured if the Pennsylvania railroad between Philadelphia and Pitts- burg is injured, the man who wears a flannel shirt in Montana is injured when the woolen manufacture of Lawrence or Hol- yoke is injured. Take that special instance : the water power at the sity of Holyoke is eaid to be the second water power in the United States. The water power of Niagara comes first,and the next power among those developed is the power at Holyoke. It is not absurd to say that the preservation of that water power should be left to the leg- itlation of the State of New Hampshire, to which the town of Holyoke does not be- long ? The water which drives the mills at Holyoke comes from the forests of New Hawpshire, of Massachusetts, and of Ver- mont. The Japes and other fabrics which are made at Holyoke go over the world. As I said, the ranchman in Montana feels an injury in Holyoke, and the nation to which that ranchman belongs, one might say, owes a debt to Holyoke. Speaking simply, the whole matter of water-flow is a national and not alocal affair. They found this out so soon as men set- tled in Idaho, in Wyoming, and Montana, and in other states which are called ‘‘irri- gation =tates,”” of the western half of the continent. Bat it is just as true of Rhode Island, of New York, of the Carolinas, and of Tenneasee,as it is true for Idaho, Wyom- ing, and Montana. Itis now proposed that a cousiderable body of land shall be reserved in the high- lands of she Carolinas, of Tennessee, of Virginia, and perbape of Kentucky, where the nation shall make sure thas the forests are not destroyed. It is not Jropued thas these holdings ahall necessarily make one connected territory, but is is proposed that the national authorities eball control the catting of timber there. This can only be done if the nation holds the property as the King of Prussian forests or the King of Bavaria holds the propeity in the Bavarian forests. There is ample experience which shows that the national investment iu such forests will produce a steady revenue guite sufficient to justify such expenditure, even il.is were regarded simply as au investment. In the case of Prussia, for instance, in the year 1902, after the forests had paid for their national administration hy the state, they paid into the general treasury of | Prussia, as a part of the anvual revenue, 56,000,000 marks. . Bat the resnlts of the control of the American forests is sought, not for a poor matter of revenue, but as a matter of policy extending forward, if you plepse, for a hundred years. The necessity in the case of the White Mountain Reservation ie even stronger. The present processes of lombering strip every shrub and tree which is larger than a blackberry bush. This means thas in the snows of wiuter and the consequent freshets of spring the eoil itself is cariied away. The harvest from that soil in the year 2,000, if you carry them on in such recklessness as now reigus, will be a har- vest of blackberries instead of a harvest of white pine. You cannot sis back in your obair and say that the twenty-first vetitury may take care of itsell. On the other A you are making sure that the twentieth century shall not take care of itself. You are making it im ble to reproduce the mageitioeut ne forests which once cover- ed the ential Range. Whine k 1d sido b new a pro- vision for the gradual purchase of the Ap- ian Reserve at South avd of the ew Hampshire Reserve around the White Mountains. The New Hampshire Reserve as surveyed by an intelligent commission under the direction of the United States Forest Service, might amount in the whole to fifty square miles. No possible expen- ditare could be of gieates benefit, not sim- ply to the states of New England, bat to the pation. And everyone must see that such preservation and culsivation as is proposed is mach safer in the bands of the national authorities than it would be under any local charge.—By Rev. Dr, Edward Everett Hale, in the Forestry and Irrigation. Frand in Fars As a people, we are very fond of fraud. We don't much care for law, and love to be fooled. In no line of commerce are we more regularly fooled and defranded than in the retail fur trade. The ermine which my lady buys for the opera coat cost her some doilars a skin. She may pay $1.00 for the black tip of the tail of one single ermine skin. The trapper who caught the weasel from which came the ermine got, perbaps, 10 cents for the skin; perhaps 5, perbaps nothing. That is not so bad, and no one could object to a commercial traus- action of that kind. A great many persons know that ermine is weasel. How many know that muskrat, pulled and dyed, is sold as seal; that nutria, similarly treated, lis sold as seal or beater; that rabbit so treated is wold as seal or electric seal; that pulled and dyed otter is regularly sold as seal; that marmot dyed is sold as mink and sable; that fitch dyed is sold as sable, and rabhit aleo as sable: that hare and muskrat are sold as mink or fable, and white rabbit as ermine or chinchilla or fox; that goat is | dyed and sold as bear; that many kinds of ' lamb are sold as Persian; that skunks are | called Alaska sah: thar American sable is sold as Russian crown sable; that mon- key and lynx and dog and fox aod polecat and muskrat and eat, and all sorts of high- sonnding names; that white hairs are regn- larly inserted in fox skins, and sometimes in sable skins? Surely, not all of our readers were advised as to these details. There isa vigilance committee appointed by the London Chamber of Commerce whose duty is to spread information against these trade frauds. We presome we need nothing of that sort in America, for here we don’t mimd heing fooled.— Field and Stream. A writer describes the different methods by which the various nations say ‘‘good- bye.” "The Tark will solemnly cross his hands upon hie breast and make a profound obeisance when he bids you farewell. The general Jap will take his slipper off as you depart, and say with a smile: ‘Yon are going to leave my despicable house in your honorable journeying — I regard thee!" In the Philippines the departiog bene- diction is bestowed in the form of rubbing one’s friend's face with one’s hand. The German ‘‘Lebe wohl” is not partie- ularly sympathetic in its sound, bus it is less embarrassing than the Hindoo's 2. formance, who, when you go from him, falls in dust at your feet. Tne Fijo Islanders cros« two red feathers. The natives of New Guinea exchange choe- olate. The Burmese hend low and say “Hib! Hib!” The **Aal wiedersehen'’ of the Austrians is the most feeling expies<inn of farewell. The Coban woald consider his good-by anything but a cordial one unless he was given a good cigar. The South Sea Island- gr rattle each other's whale teeth neck- ace. The Sioux and the blackfoot will at pars- ing dig their spears in the earth as a sign of confidence and mutual esteem. This is the origin of the term ‘‘hurying the toma- bawk.”’ In the islands in the Straits of the Sound the natives at your going will stoop down and clasp your foot. The Russian form of parting salutation is brief, consisting of the single word ‘‘Pras- chai,” said to sound like a sneeze. The Otaheite Islander will twist the end of the departing guest's robe and then solemnly shake his own bands three times. His One Ear Enough. Judge Wilbur, who retired from the Rhode Island bench last June, when the new Cours and Practice act went into el- fect, says the Boston Herald, bad for man years previous handled the criminal busi- ness of the State. He was perfectly famil- iar with the wiles and excuses of men who cought to evade jury daty, and showed them little coneideration. A venireman gave as his reason for desir- ing to ges out of Grand Jury service pbysic- al disability. ‘What is the nature of your infirmity 2’ asked the Judge. “I am deaf in one ear, your honor,’ re- plied the man. “You'll do,” eaid the Jadge. ‘“‘Don’s you know you only have to hear ove side of a case in the Grand Jury room ?”’ © «Sheday.” It is old wool redressed by scientific and clean methods. It is a component of most of the woollen garments world does ‘mot grow enough wool to enable us to bave a constant supply of new woollen garments, except with the aid of shoddy. It is shoddy that has enabled the working man to buy a new sait of clothes at the price of a week's wage. In the olden days an all-woollen garment was so expensive that it bad to last its owuer many years, unless he werea wealthy man. It is better hygiene fora man to buy two new shoddy suits a year than to boy an allwool garment which must last him two ears. Most of the clothes we wear, in t. contains an element of shoddy, and so far from being the werre for it, are the better. — The Magazine of Commerce. Diamond Production. Everybody knows that the productivity of the dismond mines in South Africa aie, comparatively shenk ing, enormous, e output of the imberiey nd DeBeers mines is restiioted to 000 carats a month, hut statistics published by De Launay show that hy June, 1806, India bad produced, as far as was known, ten million carats, and South Afviea (in less than thirty years) fifty-seven million carate, or more than twice the other two places—indeed, than all others—put to- gether. He estimated then that all dia- and packed tight, a cube measuring 45 metres (just 14 feet 9 inches) each s and be worth abont 108 million pou sterling! — Cornhill Magazine. ——*Does your husband complain be- cause you belong to so many clubs ?"’ “Well, no. He's too busy complaining about the food and the way the children are neglected.” ——Hushaud—I saw the doctor to-day. He advised me to take a ress trip. Wife—Did you show him your Husband—No, bntI told bim e? t ! yours. today. The mounds in the world would form, if uncut ! h A Valentine Sachet Shower. Obe of the prettiest entertainments given for a bride-eleot, who bad been showered with linen, kitohen utensils, china and miscellaneous articles of all kinds, was a sachet shower. The charming idea origi. nated with a young woman who heard the prospective bride langhingly express a | wish for a hundred perfame bags | Twelve girls were asked to contribute, and to make the gifts still more acceptable they weve informed of their friend's favor- ite perfumery and flowers, roses and vio- lets. They were likewise invited to a luncheon on the 14th of February where | everything was made barmonions with the : ion. | Onthe walls of the dining-room hearts | and eupids ware conspicuous in the deco- | rations, the hostess baviog found at the paper-hanger’s a small remvant of a cupid frieze with the little god of love surround- ed by a circle of pink roses. The adornment of the table was so love- ly that all gave an exclamation of delight when they beheld it. Long-stemmed toses reposed carelessly on a cloth of open- worked embroidery lined with pink; deli- cate green smilax studded with violets wreathed the crystal candlesticks which beld piuk tapers noder shades of the same tint, The doilies, instead of being of linen, edged with painted hearts ghaded to a rosy hue, and gloed to every one was a lovely heart-shaped holder for relishes, honhous, frosted in pink. Bat the crowning feature of all pid’s bush in the centre of the board, a thrifty rose-bush from every limb of which depended delightfully pretty sachets of white silk filled with sweet-scented coston and generously bedecked with rosettes and bows of pink ribbons. The tops of the bags were gathered about the necks of dolls hav- ing jauntily perched above their golden locks hats of silken roses tied with 1ibbons, a long end extending to every plate and there caught to a cluster of violets. Just before the coffee was served one alter anoth- er pulled her ribbon and secured a doll as a souvenir, Iustead of place-cards were flower sachets, the outside cut and colored to imitate a full-blown rose, the name in the centre lettered in gilt. At the close of the repast, and after the hostess had led her guests back into the living-room, they were provided with sharp-pointed pencils and cards ornament- ed on one side with a sketch of a bride bid- diog her friends farewell; the reverse side resembled valentines adorned with floral designs, and in the centre was a blank space left; here the girls were expected to write some advice befitting the future life of the guest of honor. To the girl whose effort was voted best as well as most hao- morous was presented a bunch of violets. Later the cards were enclosed in an envel- ope that had been embellished with roses in water-colors and lettered in gold, Helps Jor the future, and with ceremony were handed to the voung woman for whom they were com : Now came the surprise for the expectant bride, who had no idea of the real nature of the entertainment notil two tiny neph- ews of the hostess made their a ance. They were pioturesquely arrayed in white wings, quivers and bows, their roguish dimpled faces making ideal cupids. In their bands they held pink ribbon lines as- tached to a small cart piled shigh with sachets of all sorts. Snow Sculptures. There is some ground for the statement that snow is the most widely used material for modeling, thoagh the latter, it is true, is geuerally of a very primitive description. In practically every country where the snowfall is sufficiently heavy, the boys of the cities, as well as their brothers of the country districts, at the arrival of winter proceed to form the glittering white masses into coarse shapes, which an active fanoy will recognize as the representations of men { or animals. In some localities this sport is developed to a fairly high degree, and entire communities, young people and old, often take a band in the healthful pastime. In the Harz Mountains of Germany, for in- stance, attractive groups of snow sculptures are sometimes encountered, though these productions never attain the level of true art. An Italian sculptor, Signor Achille Car- ressa, of Genoa, who become famons through his Columbus monuments designed for certain South American cities, was one of the first to accomplish the task of pro. ducing snow representations of tral 0 value. The southern home of artist 8 even of the north ity of its climate, and bids fair to surpass of Enrope in the ri with the first heavy snowfall Signo: Car- ressa quickly installs bis studio on the neighboring Piazza San Giro, and sur- rounded by the wondering crowd, he pro- duces these charming examples of the plastio art, which by their De of de- sign and execation are little inferior to marble sculptures.—Seientific American. They Come High. “Which is the bigher—a Count or an Earl 2" asked the girl who had just come out. . “I don’t know," replied old man Scadds- ley. ‘The ooly one we have in our fam- ily is a Count, bat if an Earl’s any. higher I'm mighty glad we took the first one that happened to come along.” ie A Host in Themsel ‘Have much of an audience for the open- ing performance of your new extrava- ganza ?"’ asked the first manager. ‘Preity fair,”’ replied the second man- ager. ‘All the collaborators on the hlam- thing were there.” Possesslon. It so falls out that what we have we prize not to the worth while we enjoy it ; hut, being lacked and loss, why, then we rack the value. Then we find the virtoe that possession would not show us while it was ours. ~——Green (after dinner)—Your wife is a handsome and brilliant woman, old man, I should think you would be jealous of er. Brown (confidentially )—To tell the truth, Green, I am. I never invite any- body here that any sane woman would take a fancy to. ——-Haskell--What's Tommy crying for? Mrs. Haskell—Oh, the poor hoy caught his finger in the pantry door. Has- kell—H'm ! Ho evidently didn’t get the jam he was looking for that time. ———Mollie—*‘I hear that you and Jack had a falling-out the other night, Grace.” Grace—''Yes, Mollie, you heard aright.” “Was it anything serious?” ‘No ; the sleigh i over, that was all.” : were fashioned from heavy white paper’ and small cakes that were flavored and | Flre Fighting Successful, How successfully a well-trained and efficient ranger force may fight dangerous forest fires is well shown by ibe achieve- meus of Supervisor Slesson and his rangers in putting out the recent forest fire in the Sauta Barbara Forest Reserve in southern California. This fire broke out the first week in October and was quickly reported to the supervisor. A strong wind blew the flames into the reserve and made the work of the fire-fighters extremely dificult. For several days the fighting force under the supervisor and his bess rangers fought the fire with great energy and skill, until it was at last extinguished. The fire was reported by two rangers, who rode thirty miles to bring the news, The wind is said by residents to bave heen the most violent in years. Within three hours the fire ha: traveled four miles along the south border of the reserve and south of the reserve. Meantime, another large fire was reported from Nordhoff, but this was Jrtiavse from entering the reserve by the diligence of rangers stationed at that point, who secured help from the near- by settlements. Within the reserve the constant work of the supervisor and ran- gers was required from October 7th to October 17sh. Mr. Slosson i= said to have collapsed when it was assured that the re- serve was safe. ‘The efficiency and devo- tion to duaty of the reserve officers in fight- ing and extingnishing these fires has call- | ed forth congratalations from the Forester. ‘A Good Thing. Mrs. Newhryde—I got “ome hams here was Ca- | 1st month that my husband liked very much. Have you any more of the same kind? The Grocer—Yes'm. left, from the same pig. Mrs. Newbryde—Oh, that's nice! Give me six of them.— Cleveland Leader. Got about a dozen agement with you ? Tom— Merely because I stole a kiss, “She must be crazy, to object to having her fiance steal a kiss from her.” “Oh, I didn’t steal it from her.” ~—— ‘What would be the first thing you would do if youn bad a hundred thousand dollars?" “The very first?’ Yes! “I'm not sure, but [ think I'd hoy an- other pair of suspenders.’’ — Jones—Did you hear about that man who had his arm pulled off? Little Migge—How dreadful! How did is happen? Jones—He had it round a girl's waist, and the girls mother pulled it ofl. ——*'[ notice Nuritch is just beginning to blow about a family tree.” “Yen.” . ‘‘Bat does it amount to anything?’ “Oh! yes, it's all right as trees go. believe it's shady.” I Bills—You made a fanny break in con- gratulating the bride's father instead of the room. Wills—No, I didn’t. I've a daoghter too, and I know what they cost. AAAI —Customer—Say, you are getting soap in my mouth, Batber—S8h-h! Keep qniet. Don't let the hoes hear you and I won't charge yon anything extra. ——Caller—*‘Whew ! This office is as hot as an oven.” Editor—"*Why not? It's where | make my daily bread.” ——Little Girl—'‘My uncle eats with his knife.” Little Boy—‘'My uncle is rich enough to eat with a fire shovel if he wants to." — ‘A few years after people git too old to believe in Santy Clans,’ said Uncle Eben, ‘‘deysapt to stadt in believin’ in race hoss tips, which is wuss.” ~— Better have the wholeside of the house open than a orack or a knothole in the wall, through which the wind can blow on the head of a fowl on a perch. ~=—Daughter—*'‘Mother, could I love two men as the same time ?'’ Mother—*'Not if one of them gets wise.”’ Sleeping With Open Eyes. All fishes which sleep do so with their eyes open, as they are not pro- vided with eyelids and cannot there- fore close their eyes. From experi- ments made it was discovered that some fishes have no preference for the nighttime, bat sleep equally well dur- ing the day. They may be observed resting quite motionless for periods, apparently in sleep, except that, hav- ing no eyelids, they are unable to close their eyes or exclude all influence from without. The hare also sleeps with its eyes open, for the simple reason that its eyes are unprovided with eye- lids. Instead of these there is a thin membrane which covers the eye when asleep. This membrane, as in the case of certain birds, folds like a curtain the corner of the eye and by an taneous action flies back when sight required, leaving the eye immediately end fully open for the exercise of sight. Some birds, such as the eagle, also have this membrane, which, when at rest, lies in the corner of the eye, fold- ed up like a drawn curtain. EF ® Made a Strike Too. In an imperial city a criminal was condemned to be beheaded who had. a singular itching to play at ninepins. While his sentence was pronouncing he had the temerity to offer a request to be permitted to play once more at his favorite game at the place of exe- cution, and then, he said, he would submit without a murmur. As the last prayer of a dying man, his request was granted. When arrived at the solemn spot he found everything prepared, the pins being set up and the bowl ready. He played with no little earnestness, but the sheriff at length, seeing that he showed no inclination to desist, pri- vately ordered the executioner to strike the fatal blow as he stooped for the bowl. The executioner did so, and the head dropped into the culprit’s hand as he raised himself to see what had occurred. He immediately aimed at the nine, conceiving that it was the bowl which he grasped. All nine fall- ing, the head loudly exclaimed, “I have won the game!"—From the German.
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