L)t orret llfpsbliffltt 19 MTBUSIUD ItTUt VXCHMOiT, BT J. E. WENK. OlBoa In Smesrbaugu Oo.'t Building ELM STREET, - TIONESTA, PA. THUMB, 01.RO 1?ICK YKAIl. No subscriptions roroivecl for shorter period than three mnritlin. OunoiipnniloiiPofolicltod from ftU parti of the country. Nonolicowi 1 betaken of ammyuioui RATES' of ADVERTrarra, One Square, on inoh, cm iTmrm. .. $1 J One Square, n inch, on raontl) m One Square, one inch, ihrse noniha. .. One Bqnare, one inch, on year 1 Two Squares, ne year 1" Unsrter Column, one year Jt Half Column, one year ........... If One Column, one year t M Igal notices at estabKahe4 raUe. Marriage and death notjeee frattia. All bill for yearly advertisements oI qunrtrly. Temporary advertisements wrmi be paid in advance. Job work, cash on delivery. YOL. 171. NO. 16. TIONESTA. PA., WEDNESDAY. JULY 25. 1883. $1.50 PER ANNUM. Welcome home to the author of " sweet home." SUBIEDIN OAK OKMKTKnV, WASHINGTON, D. c, jcnkO, 1S8I, Oh, down nnd flowers of splendid June Willi pearls mid gnrhmd gnico his tnmb Who tmight Milau's dear nmid tho tuno That times tho whole world' loving foot, To which nil goldon hearts shall bent, Whcro'er tlioy wait or weep or roam, Of "Homo, Bwcot Homo " forever. Onr mariner on the Spanish main, The tattoiod minor in his tout, Tho wanderer on tho throbbing plnin Whore yollow noons by simoons whoelod Bmite Desolation's flinty shield, , ' A second bow of hope is bent In " Homo, Sweet Homo " forever. And when to bHglo and the blunt . Where bnttle tarns tho lilies rod, Through flashing columns standing fast The soldier cuts his narrow lano That lota him through to Glory's fnno He hears nu angel overhead King "Ilomo, Sweet Home" forovor. The weary traveler who waits In twilight' dim nnd drear abodo The opening of the pearly gate That somo faint rny or friendly star Way shine nbroad through doors ajar And show his fading eyes the road, Sigh "Home, Sweet Home" forovcr. A camp of blue, a enmp of gray, A peaceful river rolled between, Wore pitched two rifle shots away; The sun hnd set tho west nglow, Ihe evening clouds wore crimson Bnow, Tho twinkling oamp fire faintly seen Across tho dark'ning river. Then floated from tho Federal band Tho '.'Spangled thinner's " starry strain, Tho grays struck up their " Dixio Land," And "ltallj d.md" and " Bonny Blue " And "Red niiJnVhat" nltemato flow Ah, no suoh flights shall cross again Tho Knppuhannock river! And then, over the glancing " beam Of song," a bugle warbled low, Like some bird startled from a dream, "Homo, Home, Sweet Home," and voices rang And gray andbluo harmonious sang All other songs woro like the snow Among tho pines when winds are slillod, And heart nnd voice throbbed and thrillod Willi " Homo, Swoet Home " forever. No matter what the flu;.' unfurled Ah, Dulce Domum rules tho worldl $weet Bingorof the song of mon, Thou comest lato to claim thy own, But when the dairies rise again Arrnj-cd in all thy borrowed dust, The world will hold thy words in trust And ages chant from zone to zone Thy " Home, Sweet Homo " forevor. The Momnon murmured song, they thought, When dawning day his lips impressed And flushing marble warmed nnd caught The sweet Ionic of the Greek Ab, truer far thy lips shall speak Nor wait the touch of sun or stars For thee the night time has no bars Welcome, dear heart, nnd take thy rest At " Home, Sweet Homo " forever. . . lletijainin F. 1'aylor. THE HEIRESS. Adelo Fayton gave a vexed little toss of her heal a gesture intended ' to be awfully annihilating to Air. Hairy lirowne, standing on the lower etep of tho piazza at the Seaside house. " Very well, go, of ( ourse, Mr. Browne, if you prefer ; but really, I think it is too bad of you." " Of course it is," added pretty Miss Hunter, with tho gulden locks and baby Muo eyes that were considered ir resistible by tho generality of the Bterner sex. "Of course it is too bad, when you know that to a dozen ladies t Btopping at tho SeasMo there are only such a tew gentlemen. I know what the trouble is, though, don't I, Mr. lirowne ? You are tired of us the same over and over and you are re eerving jour forces until tho much talked of and anxiously expected beauty and heiress arrives upon the ecene." Harry turned lazily round and smiled. " 1 am afraid I shall havo to incur a great risk in contradicting a lady," he said, good-humomlly. Haughty Adilo Fayton flashed him a half-indignant, half-sarcastic glance from her black eyes and said : "And when this heiress has arrived, I daresay Mr. Browno will lose all his interest in his solitary boat rides and fishing excursions, while we forlorn maidens get through the day a) well as we can, for lonesoineness. Mr. lirowne, you are selfish." " Well, yes, rather, if always want ing the best of everything concerned is what you call Hellish. Hut 1 will re deem my character by proving to you that which will doubtless set your hearts at re.t. I don't believe in your wonderful coming beauty and heiress to begin with, and in the second place, I would commit hari-kari before I'd marry an heiress. Now am I vindi cated ?" He bowed and walked off, just a lit tle to the discomfiture of the ladies on the piazza weLt off to the beach where his boat and lishing tackle awaited him, with more of a disgusted, impatient look on his face than was customary with him. " What a lot of idiots a fellow comes acriiM in the course of hi Me ! 15c. . cause a lot of pretty eir.s loso their ' heads when a wealthy beau cornea aJonj;. they argue, with a woman's Renseloss persistency, that the men are as mercenary as themselves. Marry an heiress I not if she were as beautiful as as Venus, and every word she dropped was transmitted into a ko-hi-noor 1" Mr. Browno pushed off in his surf boat, dashing and plunging through tho breakers like a sailor, born and bred. He rowed out a mile or two to another fishing boat containing a couple of barefooted boys eight nnd ten, with wide-brimnii 'd hats, and bright, tanned face3 and brown eyes. A tall lad of sixteen, worried and anxious-looking, who w.n evidently dismayed at the increasing swell of the sea, and tho freshening south wind, was of this company, and also a young j girl with lovely dark gray eyes grave ! and thoughtful, yet bright" and flash ing as she looked at Harry while lie rowed nearer and nearer in response to the hallo of the boys. A decidedly nice-looking girl, hardly what one would call handsome, and yet the pure, fair complexion, ever so lightly suntanned, the scarlet mouth so tightly closed, the waving, deep gold-colored hair, thickly braided and hanging down to her waist, and the glorious gray eyes made a whole that Harry lirowne quite thoroughly ad mired as he pulled alongside and spoka to her. " You seem to be in some difficulty," ho remarked, touching his hat, court eously. Sho bowed. "Joe is rather demoralized, I think.. There Is no danger, is there V" Harry glanced at Joe's scared face, and tho restless antics of tho boys in tho tiny boat. "If you had a man In charge who knew his business there would bo no shadow of danger. As it is this young man has no excuse for venturing so far out." ' We were fishing," she said, in a pleasant, apologetic way, " and didn't realize how far we had gone. "Well," with a troubled look that was more anxiety than fear, "we must do tho b: st we can. Perhaps you would tell Joe what to do with tho boat." Harry replied: "If you will allow me to exchange places with your pilot I will row you ashore. I am Harry I5rowne, of" , brokers, street, at present stopping at the Seaside house." " You are very kind, Mr. Browne, and I will thankfully accept you offer. My name is May Harper." She laughed as if the oddness of the mutual introduction amused her, and Harry made up bis mind that she was tho very nicest girl ho had met in many a day. " Well, then, Joe, you jump in here and row yourself to shore. You won't havo any trouble to take yourself only, will you ?' The alacrity with which the lad changed from the Bella to the Sadie was sulbdent answer, and neither Harry nor Miss Harper could help smiling as Joe put for the shore. " I dare say ho thought it was all right," May said, apologetically. "He'd no business to think so, though. Shall I take you straight back, Miss Harper, or would you rather lish awhile longer V" "If you please, I will go back. Aunt Jane will bo worried about me." She leaned against the side of tho boat, trailing her hand in the water, while tho two children sat quiet as mice, watching Harry with awe and admiration as he pulled long, steady strokes that sent them spinning along, while Harry thought : "She is the most sensible girl I ever came across. Pretty, modest, dignified, pleasant, with no sham reserve about her, any more than too much freedom. And what a thorough lady she is 1 I know it as well as if I had met her a thousand times." And May, sitting opposite him, watching the water as it danced and sparkled, thought if ever there was a true gentlemen in manner, speech and action, it was this handsome stranger who was rowing her to shore. " Will you tell mo opposite to which hotel I am to row you?" ho said, a3, after a most delightful hour's conver sation, he rested on his oars and waited her commands. She laughed. " Oli, no, not at any hotel. I am stopping at one of the iisherinen's cot tages, about two miles further down, on your left." Harry was delighted with the pros pect of ct ntinuing with her. " Yes, I know where you mean. The pla :e we call Sandy Beach." "Yes; and you can't imagine how lovely itis there old-fashioned, rather crowded quarters, to be sure, but with not the faintest vestige of anything like fun or style." "And you actually are boarding there. Miss Harper ? Why didn't you come to one of the hotels the Seaside, for instance? It's a nice house, and pleasant company is there." May smiled. "Not I. I came to the seashore to enjoy myself and get away from fash ion and dress and tiresome people." " And you have succeeded in enjoy ing yourself at Sandy lieach'r" " Admirably, these four weeks. You are tho first devotee of the world that 1 have seen since 1 came here." I Her dark gray eyes sparkled mis- chievously as she gave a glance across i at him. ! "Is thut really so? I hope, then, I you will not condemn yourself to such I isolation any longer at least from me, May I join in your solitary amusement, Miss Harper?" A faint flush crept softly over her rare pale face as sho said : " I am not sure Will and Ben will agree to such an arrangement. They are my inseparable companions in my ratnblo V and sho looked at tho two little lads. Harry gravely produced a handful of pennies which he gave them. "Now, young gentlemen, may 1 escort you and Miss Harper on a charming excursion I know of to morrow?" " I must make it conditional, then," said May, laughing. "Promise mo you won't te!l any one there is any body down at Sandy B.'ardi, will yon? Occasionally fishing parties cune to arrange with Undo John I call them Uncle John and Aunt Jane Jackson horrible, isn't it? but I always con trive that no one sees me, for I am determined not to bo drawn into society this summer, if can help it. I don t want to see company. " lint you don't regard me as com pany ?" No," she replied, " I don't regard ycu as company." After that it was all up with Harry Browne, and he went back to the Sea side house acknowledging that he was in love at last, and with an unknown, obscure gi.'l, who, doubtless for other reasons than her dislike for society, perhaps for pecuniary reasons, was staying at Sandy Beach. He liked her all "the Letter for it; he honored her good sense, and ho fell over head and ears in love. The next three weeks were the most blessed ones he ever had spent in his life. He disgusted Adelo Fayton and her friends daily by his persistent neglect of them, lie continued his solitary excursions solitary till he came to Sandy Beach, where May was always ready to accompany him, or entertain him, or bewitch him, until one day he told her he loved her dearly, and that it was the one wish of his life to have her for his wife. And M?y, with her soft eyes shaded with the tenderness of love and trust unspeakable, looted in his handsome faco and told him she had loved him from the moment he had rowed up be side her that summer day. As he took her in his arms and im printed a lover's kiss on her red lips and put his arm around her slim waist, his heart gave great throbs of thanksgiving for thi3 blessing on him. The piazza of the Seaside house was a bewildering, bright scene, with the gayly-drcssed girls standing in earnest conversation as Harry Browne came up to the house. Adele Fayton tossed her pretty dark head saucily. " There l" Didn't I say Mr. Browne would be on hand to greet the heiress? You men can't withstand such a golden temptation. Mr. Browne, she has ar rived at last." "She? Who?" Adele laughed sarcastically. " There isn't the least use in your pretending you don't know what I mean. You know I mean the heiress." Harry smiled a sort of pity coming over him as he remembered how much happier he was than the one wno should be fortunate with this wonder ful newcomer. " Yes, I really had forgotten. Ar rived, has she ?" Bertha Hunter went up to him in her gushing manner. "I prophesy you will bo the very first to go wild over her. She is just what I imagine you will like. Great, dark-gray eyes and tho goldenest hair ; and s romantic ; I wonder you never came across her in your solitary ram bles. She has been staying down at old Jackson's cottage all summer ; but then May Harper always had curious ideas. At all events, she is hero now, and 1 am dying to introduce you, Mr. Browne." lie stood confounded for a moment while he tried to realize it. May, his darling, the heiress whom ho had declared he would rather com mit suicide than marry? May, in her cheap, blue flannel suits.with no gloves or veil on her hands or face, she the great heiress whose movements and sayings were chronicled in the daily papers whoso dresses were copied by less favored mortals, whose presence was as welcome as the sunshine? ' " And she is pretty, too," Adele Fsry ton said, a little venomously, as if it were quite a shame. " I saw her as she went to her room." Harry glanced composedly up at tho array of faces and said : " I am glad you think May is pretty. I think she is the loveliest girl living. So you did not know that I was en gaged to her? ' ' There followed a lull in the merry chatter that eloquently expressed the dumbfounded astonishment of Harry's announcement. Spare Lees. A little girl was standing at tho depot to see her father and a gentle man friend off, when sho suddenly ob served to her father, referring to his friend, who was tall and lank, Jf the cars run olf the track and any legs lmiht be broke, 1 hope they'll be Air. IPs." "What's that for?" said the startled H. "Because," she added, artlessly, " Aunt Mary says you have j a pair or spare tegs." rue -.u I aboard!" of the couauctor prevented j any explanation, THE BAD LOY'S UKCLE EZRA. BIS VISIT CAUSES TOT BACKSLIDE. YOUTH TO and Krsulla In n Nn.prnolnn of (lie Itnlcs i Aanlnit .lokln--Wliat llniiprneil la the Hpnrc Jtnoin. j ' I hear your Uncle Ezra is here on a visit," said the grocery man to the bad I boy. " I suppose you have been hav ing a high old time. There is nothing that does a boy more good than to have a nice visit with a good uncle, and hear him tell about old times when he and the boy's father were boys to gether." ' Well, 1 don't know about it," said tho boy, as he took a stick of maca roni and began to blow paper wads through it at a woodsawyer who was filing a saw outside the door. " When a boy who has been tough has got his pins all Bet to reform, I don't think it does him any good to have a real nice uncle come to tho house visiting. Any way, that's my experience. I have backslid the worst way, and it is going to take me a month, after Uncle Fzra goes away, to climb up to the grace that I have fallen from. It is blame discouraging," said the boy, as he looked up at the ceiling in an inno cent sort of a way, and lad the maca roni under his coat, when the wood sawyer, who had been hit in the neck, dropped his saw and got up mad. "What's tho trouble? Your uncle has the reputation where he lives of being one of tho pillars of society. But you can't tell about these fellows when they get away from home. Doe3 ho drink?" "No, he don't drink, but as near as I can figure it he and pa were about tho wor3t pills in the box when they were young. I don't want you to re peat it, but when pa and ma were mar ried they eloped. Yes, sir, actually ran aways and defied their parents, and they had to hide about a week for fear ma's father would fill pa so full of cold lead that he would sink if he fell in tho water. Pa has been kicked over the fence, and chased down alleys dozens of times, by ma's grandfather when he was sparking ma, and ma was a terror, too, cause her mother couldn't do any thing with her, though she is awful precise now, and wants everybody to be good. Why, ma's mother used to warm her ears, and shake the daylights out of her, but it didn't do any good. She was mashed on pa, and there was no cure for her except to have pa pre scribed for her as a husband, and they ran away. Uncle Ezra told me all about it. Ma haint got any patience with girls now days that have minds of their own about fel lows, and she thinks their parents ought to have all the say. Well, may be she thinks she knows all about it. But when people get in love it is the same now as it was when pa and ma were trying to keep out of the reacli of my grandfather's shotgun. But pa and Uncle Ezra and ma are good friends, and they talk over old times nnd have a big laugh. I guess Uncle Ezra was too much for pa in joking when they were boys, 'cause pa told me that all rules against joking were suspended while Undo Ezra was here, and for me to play anything on him I could. I told pa i was trying to lea I a different life, but he said what I wanted to do was to make Uncle Ezra think of old times, and the only way was to keep him on the ragged edge. I thought if there was anything 1 could do to make it pleiisant for my uncle, it was my duty to do it, so I fixed the bed slats on tho spare bed so they would fall down at 2 a. sr. the first night, and then I retired. At 2 o'clock I heard the awfulest noise in the spare room, and a howling and screaming, and I went down and met Undo Ezra in the hall, and he asked me what was the matter in there, and I asked him if he didn't sleep in the spare room, and ho said no, that pa and ma was in there, and he slept U their room. Then we went in tho spare room, andyou'd adide to see pa. Ma had jumped out when the slats first fell, and was putting her hair up in curl papers when we got in, but pa was all tangled up in the springs and things. His head had gone down first, and the mattress and quilts rolled over on him, and he was almost smothered, and we had to take the bedstead down to get him out, tho way you have to unharness ahorse when he runs away and falls down, before you can get him up. 1'a was mad, but Uncle Ezra laughed at him, and told him he was oidy foundered, and all he wanted was a bran mash and some horse liniment and ho would come out all right. Uncle Ezra went out in tho hall to get a pail of water to throw on pa, 'cause he said pa was alire, when pa asked me why 1 didn't fix the other bed slats, and 1 told him I didn't know as they were going to change beds, and then pa said don't let it occur again. Fa lays everything to me. Hu is the most changeable man 1 ever saw. Ho tol l mo to do everything Undo Ezra wanted me to do, and then, when I helped Fnelo Ezra to play a joke on pa, ho was mad. Say, I don't think this world is run right, do you? I haven't got much time to talk to you to-day, cause Uncle Ezra and mo are going lishing, but don't it strike you that it is queer that parents trounce boys for doing just what they did themselves. Now, I have got a friend whose father is a lawyer. That lawyer would warm his boy if he should, tell a lie, or ussjeiute with auyloJy that was bad, and yet tho lawyer will defend a man he knows is guilty of stealing, and got him clear and take the money he got from the thief, who stole it, to buy the sama boy a now coat to wearto church, and ho will defend a man who com mitted murder, and make an argument to the jury that will bring tears to their eyes, and they will clear the murderer. Queer, aint it? And Bay, how is it that wo send missionaries to Burmah, to convert them from heathen ism, and the same vessel that takes the missionaries there carries from Boston a cargo of tin gods tj sell to the heathen? Why wouldn't it be better to send the missionaries to Boston? I think the more a boy learns the more he gets mixed." Peak's Sun. Cuttin? the Hair. Dr. Shoemaker says it may be that cutting and shaving may for the time increase the action of the growth, but it has no permanent effect either upon the hair bulb or hair sa, and will not in any way add to the life of the hair. On the contrary, cutting and shaving will cause the hair to grow longer for the time being, but in the end will inevitably shorten its term of life by exhausting the nutritive action of the hair-forming apparatus. When the hairs are frequently cut they will usually become coarse, often losing tho beautiful gloss of the fine and delicate hairs. The pigment will likewise change brown, for instance, becoming chestnut, and black changing to a dark brown. In addition, the ends of very many will be split and ragged, pre senting a brush-like appearance. If the hairs appear stunted in their growth upon portions of the scalp or beard, or gray hairs crop up here and there, the method of the clipping off the ends of th'; short hairs, or plucking out the ragged, withered and gray hairs, will allow them to grow stronger, longer and thicker. Mothers, in rear ing their children, should not cut their hair at certain periods of tho year (during the superstitious period of full moon), in order to increase its length and luxuriance as they blom into womanhood and manhood. This habit of cutting tho hair of children brings evil in place of good, and is also con demned by the distinguished worker in this department, Professor Kaposi, of Vienna, who states that it is well known that the hair of women who possess luxuriant locks from the time of girlhood never again attains ijts original length after having once ben cut. Pineus has made the same ob servation by frequent experiment, and he adds that there is a general opinion that f re iient cutting of the hair in creases its length; but the effect is different from that generally supposed. Thus, upon one occasion he stated that he cut tiff circles of hair an inch in d a neter on the heads of healthy men, andl'rom week to week compared the intensity of growth of the shorn place with the rest of the hair. The result was surprising to this close .and care ful observer, as he found in some cases the numbers were equal, but generally the growth became slower after cutting, aud he has never observed an increase in rapidity. I might also add that 1 believe many beardless faces and bald heads in middle and advancing ago are ol'teu due to constant cutting and shaving in early life. The young girls and boys seen daily upon our streets with their closely-cropped heads, and the young men with their clean-shaven faces, are year by year by this fashion having their hair-forming apparatus strained. Care of the Hair. When not the consequence of old ag baldnass is a disease, and it is a fat more terrible enemy to overcome than white nair. No healthy person should begin to be bald till after fifty years of age, and yet a general lamentation arisei of young people, barely in their twenties, losing their hair. Here, therefore, must be some delect of con stitution, some disease of tho hair, that should not exist? Headaches, and indeed almost every kind of suffer ing, whether of the mind or body, fre quently cause the hair to fall." Too much study or thought or application of any kind will have a similar effect. ' Women are less subject to baldness than their brothers. Man works more with his brains, generally speaking, than woman. He also indulges in drink or other excesses more than women, and, its a rule, keeps his head covered more than women do. An Italian proverb says that hats kill hair. Hygienic, precautions may do much toward maintaining the hair thick. Tho writer knew ot a man who kep his hair thick, almost black, by never wearing a hat all his life. At eighty ho married a third wife and had a third lamily of children. You must not expect, however, that your hair will never fall, even in health, nor need you bo dismayed when you see hair come off when brushing or comb ing. Hair falls at certain seasons as dead leaves from trees, to make room for new ones to grow. If, however, you see too many come off and the f;Ul continues too long, then cut the hair as you would cut a faded plant; it will grow stronger, richer afterward. If people cut their hair regularly hair dressers would have little to do, and wig-makers would be ruined. Fre quent washing in cold salt water is elso recommended to preveiit thy hide I from faUing, anil, daily friction UgooqV THEN AND NOW, AH the years of longing, waiting, All the hoars of loving, hating, AH tho dreaming, hesitating, That have borne me as a river Bears the vessels that we give her Looking back, I sigh and shiver At the time 'tween then and now. Days of summer warmth and gladness, Moments of delicious madness, And the nights of tearful sadnees That have ruled my brow with care lines Chilled me when the noonday sun shines Vlaced the thorns where memory still twines Round the time 'tween then and now. Midst the tumult of life's hurry And the thousand things that worry, blmll the bloom become a berry t Shall the bnd become a flower? That shall fill some sheltered bower With a wond'rous perfume shower? Shall the then be lost in now? Patty Honeywood, HUMOR OF THE DAY. A new song is entitled "Brother's Hair was Cut by Mother." It is a good song for a singer to treat as mother did brother's hair "cut it short." Norristown Herald. White trousers are again in style this summer, a fortunate thing for tho t dudes, as they can buy them cheap at , any grocery. Macaroni stems, don't' cost much. Philadelphia News.' . ' Somebody substituted a pile of corn cobs for the doughnuts on the Omaha , railway restaurant counter, and they were about two-thirds eaten before any body discovered what they ; were. Rome Sentinel. The editor of the Waco (Texas) Sentinel, having been blown up by the explosion of a sawmill boiler, we sup pose it will now be in order to allude tfl him as "our highly steamed contem porary." Life. There are forty-two different shades In kid gloves this spring. This number might be increased by imitating the shade of disappointment that passes over a lady's face when she sees some other woman with a prettier pair than her own. Danville Advertiser. An Iowa bank closed its doors in consequence of the sudden and unex pected departure of the cashier. The next day the local paper announced the event in the following headline : "Another Pioneer of American Civili zation Lights Out for Polynesia." It is now the season when the young ii;m buys a city map, marks on it with a blue pencil the places in the locality of his girl's residence where ice cream and soda water are sold, and carefully studies it to avoid them in his moon light rambling with her. Puck. The man that runs an auction, And watches for a nod. Must either be near-sighted, Or else he's very odd, For when you bid on something lie smiles with sweet content, And thinks you nod a dollar When you only nod assent. lonkcri Statesman. , What are we going to do with our dead?" asks an excited cremationist. Be calm, man. We can get along well enough with our dead. They won't trouble us. They are good and quiet enough. It's the live men that worry us. What are we going to do with some of the live men? And we tell you confidentially; there is one of them we are going to push down a four-story elevator well, if he comes up with the same old bill just once more to-day. Then you can take what is left of him and go on with the discussion of your question.- Burlinijton llawkeye. Ocean Etiquette. Eighty thousand Americans annu a'ly visit Europe. Of this number 50,000 sail from the port of New York. They spend upon an average while abroad $2,.r00 apiece. The greatei number are ladies. Such is the state ment made by a Broadway (New York) traveling commission firm to a reporter, The importance of these an nual pilgrimage s, which are increasing year by year, has developed a system ot ocean etiquette that governs the con duct of what may bo termed the best circles of " maritime society." Nowa days tho captain of a crack ocean steamer must not only be a first-class sailor, but he must also bo a man of infinite tact and method, with a thor ough knowledge of what "society" re quires at his hands. To sit at the " right of the captain " at table at once accords to the occu pants of that distinguished honor the highest place in tho social scale on board ship, and tho position is com peted for with an amount of anxiety that is very amusing. The senior sur geon and his assistant (when two are carried) act as deputies, and rank so cially next in importance to the captain himself. How to accommodate the va rious claims for this coveted distinction is a matter of serious moment. The personnel of tho passenger list is closely searched at least forty-eight hours before the vessel sails. Very often tho purser is called into consul tation, and the clliliculty is finally set tled by placing a card bearing the pas senger's name upon his or her plate. From this decision there is no appeal. It frequently happens, however, that one or more persons may consider themselves s ighted, and where it is probable that the imaginary slight will disturb the social harmony the captain escapes by taking his meals n bis OV.'a room.--iMtirj Trattter, '
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