Cjjr orwt HrpnMinm IB rtTRUBRKO ITKKT WKDHMWAT. M J. E. WENK. Office In 8merbaugh Co.'s Build in ELM BTREET, - TIONE3TA, PA. T JCItMS, 91.CO PKH YKAIl. No aulmcrlptlotis received for a shorter period Hihti throe month. Onrnmputidcnco rolirited from all parts of th onnntry. Nil notice wli) betaken of anonvmoui """,MiOp,,t,np A. POOR MAN'S WEALTH. A poor man! Yes; I must confess No wealth of gold do I possess; Mo pastures fine, with grazing kino, Nor fields of waving groin arc mino; No foot of fat or fallow land Wbrro rightfully my feet may stand, Ttio while I claim It, as my own By deed and title mino alono. Ahl poor indeed, perhaps you say; f!ut sjmro no your compassion, pray. When I can't rido with you, I walk In nature's company, and tnlk With one who will not alight or slur The child forever dear to her And one who nnswers back, bo sure, With smilo for smile, though I am Txior. And whilo communing thus I count An inner wealth of largo amount The wealth of honest purposes blent With Penury's environment, Tlio wealth of owing naught to-day But debts that I would gladly pay, And wealth of thanks still unexpressed With cumulative interest. A wealth of patience and content For nil my ways improvident; A faith still fondly exercised For all my plans unrealized; A wealth of promises that still, Howo'er I fail, I hope to fUl; A wealth of charity for those Who pity mo my ragged clothes. A poor Minn! Yes; 1 must confess No wealth of gold do I possess; No pastures fine, with grazing kine, No fields of waving grain are mine. But, ahl my friend, I've wealth no end And millionaires might condescend To bend the, knee and envy me This opulence of poverty. J. W. Rihy. A CLOSE SHAVE. During the earlier years of my medico-military career 1 was selected as the assistant surgeon of the army lunatic asylum, then established in one of the east tq count 1 s of Eng land. At the time of the appointment I was given to under-tan 1 that it was one which paid a high compliment to my proiessional abilities, and was lie , stowed as a reward ot good services done; but as I did not see it niito in iiu) same light 1 went and inter viewed the chief who had thought to much more of mo than I did of him. "Mr, ' said 1, "8)ioo men are born to honors, others have honors thrust upon them; the latter is my case I don't understand one bit about the treatment, moral or medical, of the insane. I never saw but one madman in my life, and lie, I verily believe, was more knave than fool; an 1 I can't help thinking fiat if you send mo to the asylum you tire sending the round . man to lit into the square lode. "That is not e f the slightest const quence," answered lie whom 1 was ad dressing, in the riehe-t of brogues; "not the lavste in loife. Hound or square the hole will suit to a t; and if so be that ye don t know anythingoon- sarning lunatics, whoy, the sooner ye larn the better. Ye'd be ula.ed to jine without delay. Good-morning." So he bowed nio out, lultJ I having a wholesome dread of the powers that were, "jined" forthwith. It is one of Shakespeare's wise say ings that " I'se doth breed a habit in a man." lief ore there had passed away many weeks of my sojourn with the demented ollicers "and men of (jueen Victoria's land force 1 found my.-elf highly interested with their pretty and well cared for home, running pleasant ly in the groove 1 had so much ob jected to, and getting rid forever and a day of that repugnance which every out-ider naturally enough entertains when brought into contact with the denizens of a mad-house. With a pass key which was an open sesame to every lock in the establishment, 1 was accus tomed to wander over it unattended either by the "keeper" or the order lies; and never was 1 molested or Bpoken to threateningly save once, a'ld that upon the occasion 1 have elected to'name " A Close Shave." In the aft 'moons, wlit n the patients were notindoors.it was my practice to go through every part of the building, inspecting it sanitarily. I was doing bo as usual upon a certain winter's day, when, at a curve of a corridor, 1 came suddenly upon a patient leaning gloomily against one of the pillars. He was a private soldier of the Forty fifth, or Sherwood Foresters a recent admission, and whose phase of insanity was somewhat puzzling the head sur geon and myself. Without entering upon details", I shall merely say that we had doubts upon his case, and ha 1 re oaunended his removal from the ' asylum to the care of his friends. Meantime, however, ho was to lie closely watched, and no garden too's or other implements be put into his hands. How he had managed to elude the vigilance of tho orderly under whose surveillance ho had been placed, and to be where I met him, was one of the things 1 never understood. Hut 80 it WHS. AYhen he saw me his melancholic de meanor ceased; he advance I with rapid strides toward me, and I saw at once that he meant mischief of some sort or other; for every muscle of his body was trembling with passion, and on every feature of his fa'-e was pictured that of a demon. I confess that fear came over me. What was this maniac going to do? But to show apprehen sion would be fatal, so I faced him boldly, and exclaimed; "llallo. Mat VOL, XVI, NO. 28. thews 1 what are you doing here? Why are you not in the airing-grounds with the others ?" lie turned a wil l and flashing eye upon me, and glared like a wild beast. Then ho howled out, ra her than said: " Let mo out of this!' "What do you mean?" I replied, re solving it possible to gain time, and trusting that presently an orderly might pass and rolieve me from the ter rible ddemma in which I stood. " Let mo out 1" lie repeated. " I have been too long in this vile plare. 1 want to rejoin my regiment, to see my poor old mother and Mary, my sweetheart. Why am I here? I am not mad like the others. God knows that, so do you. J Jut if I am kept much longer I shall bo stark-staring mad. Let me out, I say !" lie was now boiling over with frenzv. Still I kept my ground. "Matthews," I said, "I know that you are not mad, so listen a moment. How can I get you out ! I am not the head doctor. I can't act without his orders. Your removal has been recom mended by him. I'll go and consult him now." " No, you won't, indeed." ' "Well, I can't release you. It would be as much as my commission is worth to connive at your escape. I should be tried by court martial and cashiered, if nothing worse. That you must bo aware of." " That's no matter to me. I'll make you! See this!" lie opened the loose gray pea-jacket he wore, and, to my horror, took from within it a round paving stone, of some pounds in weight, such as the courtyard of the building was paved with. How he had managed to obtain and secrete it was another mystery. A cold perspiration broke out upon me. My life seemed to be hanging by the slenderest of threads. I ha l no means of defense. The rules prevent ed my taking into the interior of the asylum even a walking stick, and man to man the maniac was taller and stronger than I. The soldier raised the stone in his uplifted hands and held it over my head, whi h was protected only by my regulation forago cap. I expected every instant that I should be cru-hed beneath it, but .still the man seemed irresolute to strike. Then, while l.amocles-like, the misi!e hung above me, a sudden idea Hashed aero-s rav mind: " What if I try to dodge him ':" " 1'ut down that stone!" I cried out. "Let me out, then!" he answered. " 1'ut down that stone and I will. But first declare that you will te'l no one who did it or how it was done." "Doctor, 1 swear 1" And then, to my inexplicable relief, lie lowered hi3 hands. I looked round once again, really to spy if any ollicial was in sight ; but in such a sly, covert way as to make Matthews believe that I feared an eavesdropper. " You know the locality outside the barra ks?" " Yes. I was stationed here some years ago with my regiment." ' A ell, this door' (pointing to one which was close to us') "leads down a very short passage to another exit open ing on to the Denes." lie was now all ears every nerve strained to hear what I had to tell him. ""Here, take this key." I put into his outstretched hand one that I hap pened to have in my pocket ; I forgot to what it belonged, but I knew that it would lit no lock inside the asylum, lie grasped it eagerly, and at the same time dashed the paving stone on the iloor. "What then, sir?" ho asked, in less excited tones. " This. With my pass key I shall let you into the passage. Grope your way for a yard or two down, feel for the lock of the outer door, open it with this k. y and escape." " You will tell no one that I am gone take no steps to have me caught? Bemeniber this: If I am brought back I'll murder jou." "Mathews! if you escape by the nv thod I have pointed out no one will know it." " You are tlio soldier's friend !" he replied. "Let me shake hands with vou. sir." 1 did not feel happy when I found mv ralm wrung within his, but I quickly opened the door alluded to, and without the least shadow of sus picion ho entered immediately. Once ho was fairly in, I pulled it to with a great bang ' which sho5k the very walls. He was inclosed in a oatn- rooin. The strain of excitement over reac tion came on. I felt t-ick and faint, and knew no more until 1 saw one of the oilicials and my servant stooping over me. The former, going his rounds, found me lying on the iloor; and as soon as 1 came to mv senses I to'.d them what hid happened; and i-teps were so taken to have Mathews so watched that in future paving stones would never again be in his possession. I took care also nevei again to perambulate the asylum with out my orderly escort. Chambers' Journil. The value of the railroad in Ohio as assessed by the State board of rail road equalization, is ?'J2.i30,o4(i.S4 This is an increase of 4,C2'J,575.84 ever the valuation ot 18S2. Is it any wonder that a man who imbibes corn juice freely should have a " husky" vQicef BoMonMurt TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1883. SELECT SIFTIXUS. In China corpulence is tlio symbol alike of social and spiritual d stinc tion. All their gods aro represented as enormously fat. Five valuable horsos standing under a tree at Erie, I'enn., were killed by lightning, the only mark upon them being melted shoes. According to a German legend, from the grave of one unjustly executed lilies spring as a token of his inno cence, and from that of a maiden three lilies, which no one save her lover may gather It has been demonstrated at the Washington (I'enn.) furnace that it takes an hour longer to burn up a big man than a little one. A corpse weighing 275 pound3 was the subject of experiment. The champion grand father's clock is owned at Branchville, N. .). It was made in Germany by a man who died in 1G50. Inl8G8itwas fitted up at the Dranchville station to keep time for the Sussex railroad, and did ser vice there for two years. It mark3 seconds, minutes, hour and the days of the months. AVhen some curious penman suc ceeded in writing 1,200 words on a postal card it was thought to be a feat dillicult to surpass in that direction, but William 13. Stuart, of Philadelphia, has copied upon a postal cardan article from the Public Led'er containing 1,5 50 words legibly enough to be read by those having exceptionally keen eyesight. Nothing that should now be done with paper would cause much surprise. Fails, tubs, tablf-ware, lloor-matting, car-wheels, railroad ties, houses ana observatory domes are no longer nov elties, and now a steamboat ma le al most entirely of paper has been built. It is twenty'feet long and can carry several tons. The sheathing is of solid paper three-eighths of an inch thick. Philadelphia has a dog that eats ice cream. It is a !kye terrier neionging to a police sergeant, who shares his cream with his pet, of tohich he is very proud, lie exhibited her accom plishments the other day, remarking: She knows when it's her turn. You can't fool her. Watch." The sergeant took a spoonful himself and threw another on the floor. The morsel had hardly touched the wood before it was snatched up. One spoonful for the sergeant and one for Nell was the order, until the sergeant purposely missed count, and then the beast set up a hideous barking as a reminder. "Six of due." Etc. Thev were going to give a perform ance of the " Piccolom ni" at a provin cial tin atre. An actor from the me tropolis was to be the " star " of the evening and take the part of Isolani. At the rehearsal during the banquet ing scene he aid to the footman, as he was about to present to him the ink stand in order to sign the declaration: "Ah ! while I think of it, I wish to explain to you, my friend, that I have a little trick here for which you had better be prepared. W hen you hand me tlio inkstand this evening, I shall, in mv excitement, wipe my pen on vour sliirt-'.'ollar. Of course it will make a stain, but you will see it will fetch the house !" " Capital 1" replied the other; "just at this pla e I, too, introduce a little trick of my own. As soon as you have wiped your pen on my collar I sha'l deal you a tremen dous box on the ear. Of course it will hurt, but you will see it will bring the house down !" Fliegende Blatter. The Talkative Man Squelched. Yes," said Fogg, who had grown weary listening to the talkativo man; "there was old Uncle .Jerry, more'n ninety years old, and he never wore a pair "' spectacles in his life." "Shol" exclaimed the talkative man. " Fact," persisted Fogg; " and what's more, he could see just as well the day he died as ever he could." " Ain't you just stretching that a little, mister?" asked the talkative man. " Not a bit," sai l Fogg, "but per haps I ought to mention that Uncle Jerry was blind from his birth." The talkative man looked as though he wished he was dead. He didn't have another word to say during the evening, and when lie thought nobody was looking lie took the first oppor tunity to start for home. Boston Transcript. Tantliers and Wolves. Panthers are still found in twenty six or twenty-seven States, but chiefly at tlio two opposite ends of i ur terri tory in Florida and Oregon. In the Southern Alleghanies they are still fre quent enough to makethe government bounty a source of in ome to the hun ters of several highland counties. Wolves still defy civilization in somo of the larger prairie Mates, and in the wild border country between North Carolina and Fast Tennessee. Hut, unlike panth rs, they do not confine themselves to a special locality. Hun ger make them peripatetic, and in ;o!d winters their occasional visits ;an be looked for in almost any moun .ain va'ley between Southern Ken tucky and Alabama. Writing work, a wrong is the forger's DUELING AMOXG STUDENTS. HOW THEY SLASH EACH OTHER WITH KEEN-EDGED SWORDS. Hmor Aiiioim Ilie drrinnn Mfmli tiis iTnln lalnrd Only I'r Ilnrd l iclillns anil Homo Umra at (he t-ost or la To. A letter from Gottingen, Germany, says: The "Landwehr" is one of a half-doen restaurants to which Got tingers walk out pleasant afternoons, the gentlemen to drink beer and to smoke, the ladies to sip coffee and knit ; all to gossip. 15ut what gives it notoriety is the la' t that the students light their "mensurs" there. It is perhaps a mile from town, on the main highway of all tho region. To day a corps from the university at Freiburg and another from Keil were pitted against each other there. There were three students on each side. Two of the combats came off this morn ing, and I went out this afternoon to see the third. As we approach within a few hundred yards of the restaurant we see near the road a sentinel whom the students have posted. It some times occurs that the "pedels" (in some respects a kind of university police) come down upon the combat ants. The sentinels business is to give warning of their approach, where upon the belligerents vanish from the scene. But suth interruptions are not frequent. Neither the universities nor the government make any serious attempts to suppress these combats. On the one side of t :e road is the inn proper; on the other side is a low, long unattractive house, in which oc cur the " mensurs." Entering an nnte-room a sevant takes in our cards. As we wait there is heard within the clash of steel. The combat is in progress. Ueing invited in, we take seats in the gallery anion-' thirty or forty other spectators, mostly students. The room below, forty feet long by twenty broad, is furnished with a few plain tables and chairs. At one end is a counter, from which beer and luncheon are served; at the other are wash-basins, towels, mirrors, etc. Here a student is, coat off, busy dre sing the wounds of a combatant. In another part of the room another student is similarly employed. Sitting or standing, more or less in groups, are same forty stu lents. They are members of ti e ' corps." They ta k, jest, laugh in undertones. Some smoke. Healths drunk back and forth ar.i ac knowledged by bowing and the raising ( f caps. In the iac( s of taese men are many scars; old, just healed, yet in bandages. One poor fellow in partic ular has, we judge, a "sore head. Bandages so Dearly envelop it that a little of bis fai e alone is visible. The physician hits or moves .about with a coolness bordering on indiffer ence. There is among the students themselves not a particle of excite ment. But the combat meanwhile is going vigorou-ly on. In the center of the loom are halks on the tlo: r, two lines, about three feet apart. The combatants stand on these. Fach wears a pair of i-t nit metallic spectacle frames, as protection for the eyes. Around their necks are foiled cloths, by way of protection. Thick, padded aprons, which extend to the knee-, make their breast secure from random strokes. They wear buckskin gloves on their rigiit hands. These gloves have sleeves which extend to the shoulders, which are thickly padded. The left arm hangs inactive, and is out of danger. The weapon is the " schlager," a straight, narrow, sharp, elastic blade of steel, about forty inches long. Its handle is provided with a frame which completely protects the hand. The strokes are dealt from the wrist out; the rest of the arm is held mo tioiiles and stiff. The combatants do not move during the making of passes out of their tracks. The seconds, like wise provided with " schlagers," stand nt the left of the princ pals. Sie liegen aus (they arii ready i, cries the one. Los, the other. At this word the combatants fall a slash ing. Halts are called after c ery live or six passes ; the seeon is catch with their "sehlagers" any blows that may fall after the halt is commanded. The wounds are examined, the "needles" are counted by the judges, whereupon a few more passes are made. Pauses of several minutes' duration were fre quently requested by tlio seconds and obtained. 1 uring these st ps, no matter how short, the arms of the combatants were suppoitel by some one. By ' medles'" is meant thu number of stitches necesr-a y to close up the wound-. The larger the number of needles inl 1 ted the greater the glory. A"mens'ar" is ontinued until tlio time agreid upon is till d, or until one of the combatants is disabled. Only the time during which pa ses are being made is taken in o account, in this sense a liiensur lasts from fifteen to twenty minutes. The object of the antagonists is to inflict on one another tin largest pos sible numb, r of "neo lies." How well they succce It d is shown ly tho locks of hair which aro m de to lly as well as by the bloo I which trickles down their cheeks and drops upi-n their breasts. The Iloor under their feet is smeaiel with I loud. , 'I ho contest continues longer than an hour. At its c lose there is no semblance of exultation. i e of tl ebellig rents s ta' en in charge by the phys.c.aa. The other lights a cigar, s tsj)iin?elf wiih his frieii' s at a table and waits until $1.50 PER ANNUM. the Burgeon can attend to his " marks' of honor." Such is the "mensur." It is peculiar to German students: no other class of German society en gazes in these con tests, so far as I am aware. 1 hiring a discussion of the " mensur " by an assembly of lawyers in Berlin a short while ago the fact was brought out that in tlio years lS:IC-78 there were fought in eighteen German universities 180,000 of these contests. Twenty-five deaths resulted therefrom. Of those twenty-five it was asserted that the majority were the consequence not of the wounds received, but of their careless treatment. "The wounds are generally mere flesh cuts inflicted on the top of the head, or the fore head, or principally the left cheek. These scarred visages have been coin pared to maps maps of Germany would be more precise. The House that IY'iin Built. In a grove of old trees, about a hun dred yards from Girard avenue bridge, William IVnn's house stands, re-erected in the same state and style as when it nestled in the heart of business activity in Letitia street. With the exception of the old comb roof and cornices, which were so decayed that the materials could not bo used in the reconstruction, the material is the same that composed the founder's old home. AVhen it was built a couple of centuries ago all of the material used in its erection was brought from Eng; land. As it stands now and as it stood then it has a frontage of twenty feet. In entering, a visitor finds him self in a square room with four windows. To the left is the old fireJ place, and on the right a winding stair to the second story, The other room on the first floor was used as a kitchen. The old house had board flooring, but as reconstructed cement takes the place of wood in the first floor. In going upstairs two rooms are found with the original windows, sashes and flooring. Tn each window there are twelve panes of glass, seven by nine inches. Three ot the old mantelpieces have been preserved, two of which will be placid on this floor and the other iu'the parlor. The old wardrobe use. I by AVilliam I'enn will also be put into the second story front room in its former posit on. The third floor or garret, as it was called, consists of but one room. In it are three pla n and one dormer window. Each room is furnished with an open fireplace. The Historical society of Pennsyl vania expended nearly 45,000 in the removal and reconstruction of the house, An effort will bo made to en rich the house by collecting and deposit ing therein all relics of the I'enn fam ily that can be obtained. A fence will surround the building, and the inclo sure will be turned into flower beds the whole being under the superin tendence of the park commission. Philadelphia Bulk tin. Cities Warmer Than the Country. Those who happen to live at a little distance from the heait of a city, says Si (.; , must frequently have noticed a lack of accord between the readings of their own standard thermometers and the published observations of the signal service observer of their local ity. The reason of the ilisci rd is plain, vi'., the perturbing action of the heat which the city emits; and however gratifying it may be to the outsider to find himself superior to the govern ment observers, it is very little to the credit of the weather bureau that this peculiar source of error was not long since recognized and avoided. The remarks of Professor Whitney e n this subject, as applied to observations made at London, are pertinent and convincing. Ho says: "it is a well known fact that eities are consider a' ly warmer than the more thinly inhabited country, otherwise under similar climatic conditions. Statistics prove this to be true, and there could be no doubt that such would the effect of an immense aggregation of popula tion within a limited space, even if there wt ro no statistics bearing on this que tion. Many millions of tons ot coal are burned in and about London during every ye-ar ; and the whole mass of brick of which the city is built is heatene'd during the entire winter, and more er le-s in the summer, many de gre s above t' e natural temperature. The re can be no epiestion that condi tions such as are here indi ated vitiate all eibservations made in or near large cities, with a view to the de'ermin ,tion of any possible secular variatie n of the temperature." Ah liiteresflnir Table. The follow iag table show s the jto poition ed' homes to population in the e it i t s named: I 'i jiidalion, A'o. tf sso. itr'f'l'lfj: Persons to a din tliinj. r.7i f..'a.i ii..r4 Ci.Mi s.ir. SI. 11 '.'.11 lii.a? 1 h I, d. li bin. s:7.l 0 1 C.11J New tli leans. U'l .0 1 1 a. .a 17 ltuitiino e.. . . a l, l ; San 1 r. ncisco Lli y.'S! i"iO,.i;; :;i,iki ta.oi'ti I 1.0 !i 4 ,:i i tiL',-j;:a 'l!7 7:t,n; SI. Loin.-. IS Cliicngo. . . lios'tm HivoUyu . . ( iin uinali. Ni-w oi k. , .. JWa.lsfl . . a-t'.H :; . . ,ri iii.tiiut .. r.,:". .l,'.o;,2.'J As a "City of lloines," Philadelphia takes the lead. Eleven days a'ter a girl babe had been boin to a painter's wife in Ha.lo ton, Penn., she re.-aime I her household duties for a day and thea a Itlod a boy to the family, RATES OF ADVERTISING. One R'pinre, one inch, one insertion... f 1 CO ( die Square, one inch, one month 3 00 One !Si(mi'P, one inch, three month... 6 00 ( )ne K.pinre, one inch, one year 10 (10 I wo Kipinres, one year 18 00 ('Kirter Column, one year 80 GO 1 1 ;tl f Column, one year H) 00 One Column, one year 100 00 liegn notices nt established rate. MnrriRtte and death notice gratis. All bills for yearly advertisement collected quarterly,. Temporary advertisoinente mast be pnid in advance. Job work, cash on deli-very. THE BRIDAL GIFTS. To the stately village bridal, AVith its feasting, danc and mirth, There came ft gray-haired singer One of the poor of earth. Silver and gold and jewels, The rich guests brought along; The bard hod naught to offer But just one little song. Dust are the bride and bridegroom, The proud guests lowly lie; The costly gifts have crumbled The son ran never die. Frederick Von Bodenstedc. HUMOR OP THE DAT. Tho hire court Salaried judges. " That's what beats me," soliloquized the small boy, as he gaze I at his ma's slipper. . " AVell, wife, you can't say I never contracted bad" habits? "No, sir; you generally expanded them." "I am the power behind the thrown," soliloquized the mule, as he pitched his rider heels over head to the ground, Boston L'Qurur. Mint is said to keep rats and mice out of the house. If a man owned a mint he could also "keep the wolf from the door." " One is alone in a crowd when one 'suffers, or when one loves," says a phi losopher. It is different when" one has corns. Oil City Blizzard. A writer in the Atlmti", says, "Listening is a lost art." That writer evidently does not live in a boarding house. iladelph ia News. A city clerk ha? just proved that paris green on certain kinds of pie is entirely harmless. It is the pie which is generally fatal. New York Jour mat. There are four different patents out rn ways to preserve eggs, but none of them beat the old-fashioned way of putting 'em in raisin t ake, and placing the cake down cellar. Detroit Free Pres. It has been discovered that fishing was a primeval occupation; but lying about th-i size of the fish caught origi nated in an age of enlightenment and civilization. Hence tisldng is still a prime-evil occupation to some extent. , Norristoun lltnlkl. VHEKE TUB WASP FAILED. A wafp went madly to his work, Aim various things did tackle, - He stung a boy, nnd tlu n a dog, An.l made a rooster cackle. He settled on a drummer's cheek And labored with a will: He prodded there for half an hour, And then he broke his dii 1. 1'vledo Blade. , A school-girl says her studies are arithmetic, algebra, geography, as tronomy, grammar, English history, general history, etymology, spelling, t omposition, drawing, reading, writing and singing by note. It looks as if her education is being sadly negle -ted. Unless French, Latin, mental philoso phy, calculus, civil engineering, and hydrostatics are added to her studies she will be totally unfit to assume the duties of a wife and mother a few years hence. Cultivation of Mustaches. "Are you ever called upon to raise mustaches for youngsters?" was asked of a New York pro essor of hair cul ture who seems to have an extensive following. "Oh, yes, indeed," was the hair compeller's rejdy. " I have many cus tomers from sixteen to twenty-one, and even as high as twenty five, whom I treat specially for the growth of the mustache. The youngest customers are anxious to for-e the crop of hair on their upper lip, the old ones find the growth too s anty and are anxious to increase its luxuriance. In the lat ter instance the se.d pores have not been opened or life has disappeared from the bulb before it got a chance to f-prout. The easiestcases to handle, though, are the yt-ung men who want precocious musta lies. By feeding the hair roots, keeping the soil moist and warm and tho pores open, I have found it possible in threj iinnths to give a sixteen or seventeen-year-oider a very good-looking musta he before the rest of the ir face is ready for the touch of a razor." Are there many young men anx ious for this labial decoration?" " You'd bo surprise I to know the number. I have now under treatment three young men from a local board ing sch ail, two boys in one of the rail road offices, thu son of a prominent operator on 'Change, and "a clergyman's boy. They tome here regularly every three weeks to have the furze clipp-.'d from tin ir lips, which strengthens the hair. No. 1 tlo not uso the razor. It would pull the hair roo s out in the tender t ondition in which the treat ment leave t the l.e.-h. A line, sharp s issors docs the work." "AVhat do you charge them?" " l ive dollars a bottle for the wash and a dollar for each clipp ng." "Do any of tho boys want side whiskers?'' 1 never heard but one call for them since 1 went into the business. A young fellow stu yingfor the ministry came in and ask el mo if 1 could pro duce a pair of blonde sideboards on his face. I said 1 1 ould produ e the hair, but it might not be exactly blonde. Tho hair of his head was red, and when 1 wouldn't guarantee to de orate his jaws with vellow tow he got up ami' left. Oh. it's fun!' i
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