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TIONESTA, PA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1887. $1 50 PER ANNUM Birmingham, Alabama, is notcontontj 'with becoming nn important iron nud conl center. It has started a now enter prise the establishment of a new silk farm near the city. Almost beforo the ovens in the crema tories in this country have become thor oughly heated a new process of incinera tion is invented in Italy. Under the Ital ian method the intense heat nccossary for consuming the body is procured by elec tricity, thus doing away with many dis agreeable features surrounding crema tion as it is at present carried on at Fresh Pond, Long Island; Lancaster, Pennsyl vania, and other places. "With all the safeguards thrown around our mails, and they are many awl ingen ious, yet the last annual report of the In spection Bureau of the Postofllce Depart ment shows that during the past year 497 postotficcs were robbed and 250 burned, 76 postal cars were burned or wrecked, 27 mail stages robbed, 7. mail passengers on their wagons robbed, 79 pouches loBt, and 127 stolen, cut, or in jured by falling under trains. The statement hitving"beon published that the Government losses annually from 11,000,000 to f 2,000,000 by stamps being washed and used a second time, a New York Tribune reporter asked Postmaster Pearson what foundation there was for such a statement. "None whatever," replied Mr. Pearson. "Somo years ago the Third Assistant Postmaster-General male a similar statement in his report and ever since then, whenever an inventor wishes to. float a scheme for canceling stamps the assertion is made anew. The Govern ment, I don't believe, looses $200 in this manner. Wo find few attempts at such a fraud in our office and the sum to be Made by it is so small that it would '"trdlj pay one-to go into it exten- i he latest invention of cur brakes promises a fortune for the inven- just made its appearance in It is intended for freight -? officers of the Pennsylvania offered $70,000 for the exclu ,.iU, but tho inventor, a laborer j name of Timmins, refuses to sell ' ho contrivance is, so arranged that of fifty or sixty cars, running at 1 of thirty miles an hour, can be 1 by the use of the brake within a of very few feet after the pressure ; pen fully applied to all the cars. It le worked by any of the brakemen top of tho cars, or can be used from i engine, or the caboose at tho rear of train. It is so simply constructed t it can be put on with one hand, and talus Buch a power of compressed air t it can lock the wheels of a locomo tive in three seconds at a speed of forty miles. . That, at lea"St, is what is now claimed. A great project is in contemplation by Chicngo capitalists. It is the erection of an auditorium and hotel combined, nt a cost of nearly $',,000,000. The 'cture will be thoroughly fireproof nine'itories high. . It will have a ,tage of three hundred and sixty-two ' on Congress street, facing south and pverlooklug the lake,' running one hun dred and eighty-seven feet along Michi. gan boulevard, looking out on Lake park and Lake Michigan, and one hundred and sixty one feet on AVabash avenue, with a tower two hundred and sixty five feet from the ground. The audi torium will have a seating capacity for the thousand people, when used for operatic purposes, and when occupied by a convention will accommodate com. fortably nine thousand persons. The hotel will contain one thousand rooms, tnd will be fitted up with great mag nificence. Ground will be broken early next summer. The New York Sun relates that whilt Thomas C. Acton was Sub-Treasurer he Lad for a visitor, a young Connecticut niiss, and he instructed Cashier Floyd to show her and her mamma throilgh the vaults and let them see how com pactly Uncle Sam stored $140,000,000. Mr. Floyd is one of those jolly old gen tlemen who believe in pleasing the young folks, He .took from one of the vaults a package containing $0,000,000. in $10,000 bank notes, and handing it to the young miss, said, "I guess we can spare that for you." She looked pleased, folded the package of new bills in the middle, opened her hand satchel, and was about to drop the big fortune into it when Mr. Floyd, noticing that she - in sarnest, told her that the Gov-..-iit was a little short that day, and . .'. 1 h ive to postpone the gift to ; :).-r time. The youug miss lives si !, Conn., and only recently . !.t hi-r pnp,a might let her Nt w 'ioik and get the present . ler at the Sub-Treasur?. "IJ." "it THE HARVEST. The thistle wows her airy host ' To every breeze that blows; On every oast tbe traveler sees The seed the thistle sows. Tour bars are all an idle boast; In vain are hedge and wall; The thistle sows her airy host ; To pass beyond them all. The cup of grain without a care Is cast to flo!d and plain; But who is there to reap the yield On board the flying train? y The sport of mocking earth and air, Her scattered wealth appears; For she who bows without a care Can never bind the ears I Dora Head Goodall, in Independent. TIDD'S PROPOSAL BY BLAKEI.V HALL. "This," said Mr. P. Livingston Tidd yesterday morning as he rose from a rest less bed and perched, by way of change, upon tho rugged top of his trunk, "this is the eventful day. I'll do it to-day or go down to the river and fall off a pier. The fact is, you know," he continued, sliding down from tho trunk and ad dressing his mirror jargumentatively, "I'm beginning to hk like a Bowery freak, with all thiyworry and layin' awake nights, and it might as well be settled. To-day I do it." It was said boldly, but there was a sheepish look on the haggard face of P. Livingston Tidd as ke recalled the many Erevious occasions on which he had egun tho day with a similar resolution and failed utterly to carry it out. lie turned lm the mirror, fell upon his knees on the floor, and- rescued the pho tograph of a placid-looking young wo man from tho dust. He looked at it tragicallyfor a moment. and then turned his eyes upward and said morosely: "Oh! woman, woman, whether no whither art thou leadin' mo J" After this outburst he restored the photograph to its infantile easel and pre pared himself for breakfast. 1 Mr. Tidd lived in a boarding house where there were four or five other clerks and salesmen, a retired grocer, two "lady stenographers' as .they sty lid themselves a family of children, and a miscellaneous assortment of glum and heartsick relatives of the landlady. The relatives devoted most of their time to accumulating.loads of gloom of various degrees of intensity during the day and spending the evening in abusing the landlady on 'whoso bounty they lived. "Which, when I looks um. over," the landlady said confidentially one night to Mr. Tidd at dinner, with a wave of her hand toward the down-cast dependents, "it aintto be wondered at that I gits an occascrnttl jog onto me J' "Jag," interrupted Mr.' Tidd, who was a stickler for correctness in speech. "I mean jag," said the landlady, blushing deeply at her ignorance of so ciety nomenclature. "Ob, dear, they've all got the doldrums, blue devils', and dumps, an' it ain't surprisin' that I turns at times to gin." ;'It ain't, indeed," said Mr. Tidd, po litely. And as the landlady had made a confident of him, w hat more natural than that he should confide in her? Then, as she promptly revealed everything to the disconsolate relatives and they told the others, it was pretty well undeastpod in Mrs. McPherson's boarding house that P. Livingston Tidd, of the lace deprri, ment'of the great dry goods housu of Billington, Gash & Co. was in love, and slowly nerving himself up to propose. A single glance at the unhappy sales man as he stalked to the breakfast table yesterday morning convinced them all that he had not declared himself the night before, and the landlady compas sionately added another piece of sugar to his coffee, and skillfully directed the plate of hot wheat cake toward him. This balked the five hungry and alert sales men on the other side of the table, and a wave of startled resentment swept over them: The youngest even went so far as to remark in a hoarse whisper to his neighbor that "Tidd's heart might be in a bod way, but' when whe it cakes was floatin' around his stummick seemed to git there with both feet, so to speak." But there is no gainsaying tho truth that all the world loves a lover, and be fore breakfast was over the meagre appe tite of the unhappy Tidd had endeared him to the roost rabid wheati ake eater of them all. There was a set look about the mouth and a glassy expression of the eye when the salesman strode out that did not pass unnoticed. "Which if a certain party don't up and do it to-day," Mrs. McPherson remarked thoughtfully, as she leaned her elbow on the table and tapped her teeth elegantly with a spoon, "I'm very much mistaken ; but," with a cutting glance around, "if the word of certain stuffy persons what suffers uncommon hard from low sperits is reliable, I'm mistaken very often." Meanwhile Mr. P. Livingston Tidd was on his way to "the store," of which he always spoke with such reverential respect. The business of the lace de partment was in the hands of five young men. at the head of whom Mr. Tidd i easily held his position by virtue of ex I perience, untiring industry, and a salary i of $18 a week.. The man who was' nomi- nally in charge of the department- had I recently shown such skill in selecting dress goods for importation that his ser vices were being utilized in that diric 1 tion, while Mr. Tidd did all the work with his accustomed energy. After this t had been going on for some months it i chanced to come to the ears of the firm, and Mr. Billington and' Mr. Gash fell to discussiug it just before luncheon yester . day. i "Do you know anything about this Gidd, Fidd, JSidd what the deuce is i his came? chap, Billington?" asked I Gash. I "Very little, except that He's a most , efficient young man," said the dignified Billington, "and has been faithful to our interests for many years came to us as a lad, if I remember rightly." "Well, suppose wo move him up a peg, eh?" . Billington, who is frequently referred to in the trade papers as the "Dry Goods King," sent for Mr. Tidd at once, and took his placo before the cheerful grate fire by the side of Gash, who is a mem ber of a dozen clubs, has a villa at Sea bright, and comes to town in his own yacht every day. ' When Mr. P. Livingston Tidd, having hastily changed his ollice coat and brushed his hair, found himself in tho famous inner otlice and face to face with two of the greatest lights in the dry goods world, his breath came hard, his lips grew dry, and he felt a very great desire to steal away. "We have sent for yon, Mr. Tidd? sa'd tho dignified Billington. as akindl Jiirnt ehono Jrom his shrewd gray eye, "to say that we have decided, in view of your long and devoted service to us, to give you complete charge of the lace de- uartment." "At a ealary, my boy," said Gash, clapping his hand on the shoulder of the honest clerk, whoso lip wus quivenn like a child s, "of two thousand a vear, which I don't mind telling you, is much more than either Billington or I earned when we were vour ace." They stood there looking at the sales man wiih all the kindness in the world. but ho could not speak. He had hoped to be promoted hve years hence, perhaps, but to have it come so sudderfly and now. and to find the two great bugbears of tho house such kindly and cordial men, was a little too much for him. .He blindly put out his hand and the two millionaires shook it warmly.and then Mr.Tidd went back to his laces mistily. The partners stood side by side for a long while without speaking, and then Uasli said to Billington: "It's a great many years, David, since ou and 1 were abashed in tho presence otvlio head of the firm, eh? Somehow feel as though we'd done a good deed this morning, though I can't tell exactly how. Nioii we go to lunch now" After the arm of the fortunate sales man had been duly shaken by his fellows, Mr. Tidd felt sufficiently composed to write nud send the following note to his bosom friend in the well known glove house of Bing, Flamme & Johnsmg, fur ther up Broadway : DrBiixy: B. & G. ja-t called yrs truly into the office and ut me in charge of laces $2,000 per. Ur't surprise. Now I'll do it sure. Meet me at luneh at 1 elk. P. L. T. V. S. B. & G. acted like trumps. Mr. Tidd was already in tho restau rant when Billy Van Klick strode in with the wealth of cuff and haughty mien of thq masher of repute. Ho was a nota ble man. A casual and ignorant ob server might havo put him down at first glance for a narrow-chested young per son, endowed with a striking amplitude of hands nnd feet a ad a thwartcd-look-ing moustache. In seeking the advice of such a man as this Sir. P. Livingston Tidd felt that he could not go astray. After they had finished their luncheon, and Mr. Van Klick was reveling in the turgid delica cies of plum pudding with hard sauce, Mr.Tidd who could not cat a mouth ful said: "And now, Billy, having finished business, let's turn to a softer subject. I fee' that the hour can no longer be de layed. My bed feels 'sif 'twas filled with tin kettles ; I can't lie still a minute ; and as for eating it's a burlesque." "Is that new 43-dollar-brood-ribbed-diagonal-cutaway suit of yours home from the tailor's?" asked the pride of Bing, Flamme & Jonsing, . looking shrewdly over his pudding spoon. "Came las' night. But somehow I don't care for clothes now, Bill," "Go eat a brick 1" said Mr. Van Klick with immense contempt. "How you goinler win a girl without clothes 1 You want to put on that suit an an yes, overgaiters." "What?" cried Tidd. "Oh, that's coming it too strong." "Ovorgaiters," repeated Van f, rmly, "a plug hat I've got a I say Klick, clipper that vou can have, size, six and three- eighths and a red roso What a woman can't stand up against to gave her soul," said the speaker impressively, drawing on his profound experience in matters of tho heart, "is stylo. Be toney and you're a winner."' Then Mr. Van Klick made a draft of a note which tho lover, who was becom ing maudlin as the night grew near, tremblingly copied and sent to the ad dre s of the placid-faced young woman. She was thus informed that Mr. Tidd had been elevuted in business to a place of great importance; that his income had been doubled : that he yearned for com panionship and found a single existence hollow, and that he would call that even ing at eight. Having despatched the note, Sir. Tidd went about his duties so flustered, agitated, and perturbed that he hadn't the faintest of notions where he was. About six o'clock he dashed nerv ously up town in his office coit, entered tho wrong room in Mr. McPherson's, sang a hymn with turbuli nt vehemence, whistled with a species of breathless fren'.y, refused to go to dinner in a voice of savage irritability, nnd when Billy Van Kl ck arrived wiih tho overgaiters, red rose, and plii' hat. ho was received with cold disdain. Mr. Tidd had de cided not to go forth that night, and he would not trouble Mr. Van Klick to re main. Thereupon Mr. Van Klick bowed coldly, and was ubout to withdraw when his frieud seiCil him in his clammy hands and begged him with hysterical ardor not to desert him in his hour of need. Mr. Van Klick considered a mo ment, and th n, lighting a cigir and peeling otl his coat, he went to work to induce the gulping V. Livingston Tidd to art'iy himself in the finery at hand. At precisely eight, o'clock a wobegone and pitiful-looking man stood at the door of the placid-faced maiden with Ids hat awry and a pair of white overgaiters on feet that toed in. "Now mind what I say." said Billy Van Klick, clutching the lover's arm with one hand and the bell with the other, and speaking in a peremptory voice. "Be sure and do the elegant; pull down your cuffs and put on an easy smile, Rn' toss off a few iokes. Then take a little flyer into poetry, and if she shows a strong list t' leward iam her up into the wind an' keep her there. After this tKe her hand in yours and tell her the hull racket." With a reassuring squeeze of the arm tho faithful friend gave the bell a mighty jerk, scudded down the steps, and took up a commanding position on a fire plug across tne street. There was the bustle of retreating footsteps in the passage and the door was thrown open by one of the six sis ters of the Dcloved of P. Livingston Tidd's soul. She smiled a cheerful wel come, and asked him if he was well, and said that Minnie wonld be down in a minute. The mouth of Tidd opened and his head shook, but he could not utter a word. He stood as though rooted to the spot until a Voice which floated gently through the darkness from across the street said : "Go in, you chump!" He started, took off the shining hat, droDDed it as he crossed the threshold. stumbled against it, and sent it spinning down the passage. "Alerciiul heavens I" said the Voice, plaintively, "go. light on that hat, will you?" Then tho door closed and Mr. Tidd wandered into tho parlor and wished that he were dead. Shortly after that the girl with the placid face, and she had, too, a plump figure, a pretty hand, and a kind heart, came timidly in, and tho six sisters arranged themselves on the stairs while the fat mother of the family sat on the top step and cried with the keenest enjoyment. There was an awful hush. Mr. Tidd stepped on his feet, and found his hands of measure less size. He had renounced the hat for ever, but he still carried the cane as though it weighed a thousand pounds, and might rise if not watched and smite him at any moment. Minnie asked him in a trembling little voice, as she sat on the edge of her chair, with her eyes very wide open and her little hands inter locked, if the weather was warmer or colder, and he answered something that sounded like "Quite so," but it might have been anything else. What the deuce was the matter with that cane? it began to wobble, and the unhappy Tidd became miserably conscious that it would get away from him in spite of his efforts. He clutched at it wildly, but it eluded him and fell to the floor. With a gasp he leaned down to pick it up, and as he did so he glanced at the little maiden who sat so near him. Her eyes shone with such gentle sympathy and love that the poor fellow sank on his knees, put his arms around her waist, and hid his face in her neck, while she timorously stroked his hair. And so the deed was done. New York Sun, Chinese Ancestral Tablets. The believer in Confucianism . has many curious ideas. In almost any Chinese residence will be found an an cestral tablet, and sometimes these oi their imitations are offered for sale in the shops of the city. The tablet is known as the Shin Chu, or home of the spirit; and, as a rule, is made of wood, about a foot in height and three inches wide generally some fragrant wood is em ployed, and owing to the rich ornameta tion in the way of carving, the tablet is made up of three pieces a solid pedestal and two upright sections. The back often contains a niche, in which are placed pieces of paper bearing the names of ancestors Before this prayers are offered daily, incense burned, etc. ; the prayers not being as one might suppose lor the dead, but being appeals made to them, the belief being that every man has three souls, which at death have dif ferent duties one goes to heaven, an other remains in the grave with the body, while the third takes up its abode in the ancestral tablet, and to this the prayers are offered, and the believer has the sat isfaction of knowing that his ancestors become gods, no mutter what their sta tion on earth. San Franchco Call. Fishing with Bottles. Why, they know of no other way to fish up at Lake Villa, near the Wiscon sin line. I'll tell you how it's done. The natives up there buy a bottle of whisky and drink the contents. Then they put the cork back in the bottle, fasten about five feet of line arouud the neck, and bait the hook with a minnow. When they reach deep water they throw the bottle away from the b at and wait for results. Of course the bottle is as buoy ant as a cork, and the action of the waves has the ellect of keeping the bait in a constant state of agitation. By and by Brer Pickerel comes along and snaps at tho oscillating minnow. The hook catches him beforo he knows it, and then the bottle begins to scoot under water or scud along on the surface. Tho natives in the boat may be playing seven-up or whisky poker, but the minute the bottle begins to skip they drcp everything and begin to pull out for the flask as though a sea serpent was after them. When the bottle is captured and the big squirming pick 'rel removed from tho Hue, the hook is rebaited and tho tackle thrown over board again. (JLvaijo Herald. Pull ndro meg. A palindrome is a word, verse or sen tence that is the same when read back ward or forward, as madam, lovel. Anna, etc. Apropos to the, subject, a. Detroit Free tres writer furnishes this good example : 1 m-w a good deal in the pars lately about 'ralindruiiie-i," Why dou't they get one of some length, say like this: "tSnug & raw was 1 ere i saw war & guna." THE RAM LILA FESTIVAL. HINDOO CEREMONIES 8EEKT FROM AN ELEPHANT'S BACK. Picturesque Sight on a Road in In dia A Fight With a Bamboo (lant. A writer in the London Pall Mall Ga eette thus describes the great religious festival of the Hindoos, known as Ham Lila: We were at Fyzabad in Oudh, only six miles from one of the greatest strong holds of Hindooism, the sacred and an cient city of Ajudhia, whose antiquity dates from mythological times, some 'thousands of years befomiSDur Christian era, and whose, sanctity as the birth place of the monkey-god Hununton, and also that of the hero Kama, one ot the sacred lino of sun-begotten kings, is not surpassed by any' other of the cities on the earth. We had been invited by the Maharajah Man Singh to go and witness the combat between Kama and the demon giant Ha vana, and when half way to Ajudhia found one of the Maharajah's elephants waiting for us, a splendid fellow, with his face and ears and trunk painted elab orately in brilliant colors. He was cov ered with a cloth of crimson and green and purple velvet reaching to within a few inches of the ground, and heavy with gold embroidery, and on his back was a silver howdah. Having mounted, we proceeded in state, with a native'ser vant perched up behind us, holding over our honored heads a huge red umbrella, and were shortly met by a number of na- j tive gentlemen on elephants nearly as gorgeous as our own, who followed us to the fete. The road was thronged with dense crowds of men, women, and children in bright, clean holiday clothes, with a liberal sprinkling of fakirs among them, always distinguishable by their absence of clothes and extreme dirtiness. Ascetics never have held that cleanliness was next to godliness.- One holy man we passed had painted his whole body white his coat of paint being his only garment and who was apparently hanging from a tree. Another was standing on his head, with large fires blazing close round him, which seemed supcrtluous with such a blazing sun overhead. Bells were jing ling, cymbals clashing, tom-toms thump ing, all softened and harmonized by the all-prevadiug hum of the many-throated crowd. The scene was one to be remem bered the great swaying dark masses of people, their white turbans standing as thick as ears of corn in a wheat field ; the elephants rising above the level of the crowd and majestically cleaving it asunder as they strode silently onward ; the countless domes of mosques and temples standing out sharp and clear in the white sunlight against the deep blue sky; the flat roofs and the tops of the walls and balconies covered with swarm ing crowds of women, brilliant as a kaleidoscope. And now wc were close to the sccno of action, and so tightly wedged were the people that the elephants could no longer force a passage. Towering twenty feet or more above all surrounding objects we saw the huge, uncouth figure of the giant Bavana, made of bamboo frame work covered with paper and calico, being drawn to and fro, with arms out spread, on a little wheeled platform, while two boys representing llama and his brother attacked him from an ele phant with bows and arrows, and crowds of boys with moukey masks and tails, representing Hunumon's monkey army, made onslaughts with fierce shouts und blows. Our elephant was not very stanch, and when the shouts of battle rose shrill and savage he would turn short around, spreading consternation and nearly de molishing a sweetmeat stall that was un wisely near his heels. The interest of the crowd in the combat was intense and breathless, and when at last the giant was overthrown all struggled wildly to get a blow at him, while a mighty roar of triumph filled the air. mingled with the firing of guns and the deep trumpeting of the elephants, who were thoroughly infected with the excitement of the mo ment. In a miraculously short time tho giant was torn to shreds and his mangled remains scattered far and wide wjth vengeful energy. Hunumon and their beloved Kama had won the victory. This is the one grat carnival of the Hindoos, and when, as sometimes hap pens, its date coincides with that of the great Mohammedan feast of the Mohur rum, there is always great risk of a colli sion. The Bam Lila has another interest, connected with natural history, ns being the date on which, according to native scientific observation, bugs leave oil bit ing. The natives say "they get weaker for a month before the Ham Lila, but af ter that their mouths are shut." Lurgest Dog In America. While Mr. Bradenburgh was coming down Chestnut street with his monster dog Koloss tho crowd that collected about him was so dense as to need police interference, and he was ordered oil the street for causing a blockade. Koloss is a truly magnificent specimen of the dog family, immense head, great limbs and huge body of a tawny yellow color, streaked with dark gray. When reclin ing at full length on the floor Koloss bears a strong resemblance to a sea lion, yet he is exceedingly gentle, and is the pet of the ladles and children. - A dog fancier on Eighth street, who has had considerable experience in raising blood hounds, suys this is the largest animal' he ever saw, and pronounces Koloss the largest dog in America. Koloss is nine feet long and five feet high. He is an ,1 .i ... i, . l i L liner uu, a biiei ivm ui I'nuiim iuiuuu, and comes of a uoble ancestry. Although giant iu si.e he has not yet attained full irrowth, since he is only a pup. I'lii a- ddjihii J'reit. t'hurch-going chants. people often meet by A PASSAGE. The world was made when a man was born ; He must taste for himself the forbidden springs; He can never take warning from old-fashioned thlDgs; He must fight as a boy, he must drink as a youth, He must kiss, he must love, he must swear to the truth Of the friend of his soul, he must laugh to scorn The hint of deceit in a woman's eyes That are clear as the wells of Faradise. And so be goes on till the world grows old, Till his tongue has grown cautious, his heart has grown cold, Till the smile leaves his mouth, and the ring leaves his laugh, 'And he shirks the bright headache you ask him to quaff; . He grows formal with men, and with women polite, And distrustful of both when they're out of his sight; Then he eats for his palate, and drinks for his bead, And loves for his pleasure and 'tis time he was dead. John Boyle O'Reitly. HUMOR OF THE DAY. A moving speech. "Pay your rent or give some other tenant a chance." Mer chant Traveler. A K street girl says she is afraid of all kinds of snakes except the beau-con strictor Washington Critic. A female poet sends a few lines enti tled "Words That Hum." She struck it about right tha time. They did burn elegantly. Statesman. Some of the paragraphers have been facetiously referring to earthquakes as real estate movements. We should say they had more to do with ground rents. Boston Courier. TRIFLES. A student Bald, when from his college going, " Professor, all 1 know to you is owing." With pregnant smile did the Professor say, "Such trifles, sir, you need not mention, pray." JVdBt't "So you have broken off with Mr. Smith," said .Maud. "Well, I never could make him out." "I found him a good deal of a conundrum myself," replied Clara, "so I gave him up. New York Sun. "We can't all be President of tho United States, Bobby," said the minister. "I know it," Bobby replied, and his clear, honest eye shone with lofty ambi tion, "an' I don't want to be. I'm goin' to be a drum major." New York Sun. "There are two things," remarked Fogg, in a contemplative mood, "that I don't understand. One of these is, how tho world got along before I came into it, and the other, how after I have left it, it is going to get along." Boston 1'rauscript. Omaha Girl "Pa, there is talk of form ing an archery club in our set. May I join?" Omaha Pa "I saw a girl's arch ery club practicing the other day, and I am afraid I can't afford to bear my share of the expense." "Why bows and arrows don't cost much." ".No, but it takes so much lumber to build a murk." Omaha World. A Tiny Greek Island. This primitive pastoral life fof the Greek peasant) may be studied in the archipelago in either of two ways by visiting the tiny islets inhabited only by one or two families of shepherds, whose intercourse with the outer world for gen erations has been exceedingly limited, or by penetrating into the mountain vil lages of some of the larger islands. In my wanderings I have visited sev eral of these tiny islets, but of all these none to my mind offered such a complete picture of patriarchal life as did a low, black islet some twenty miles off the coast of Asia .Minor rejoicing in the name of Donkey's Island (Gatharonisi). It is inhabited only by one family, at the head of which is a very aged patriarch indeed, called George, who rules over twenty-two subjects that is to say, his wife, six Bons, seven daughters, and the families of three married sons and one married daughter. Only one daughter is married, it must be noticed ; the other six, by a custom existing in these remote corners of the world, are doomed to single blessedness, for here the ma triarchal system is still in existence the dest daughter inherits all, while the sons and younger daughters have to look atte themselves. Consequently, a hus band was easily found for old George's eldest daughter from the neighboring island of 1'atmos, who was content to leave his home with a view to succeed ing his father-in-law on Donkey's Island. Tho family here have everything in com mon; on feast days they all eat together. Day uf ter day the women sit together at their work, sorting grain on low tables, or plying their distaffs, while the men tend the five hundred goats which form old (.'eorge'-s flock or till thw soil, which produces just enough grain and just enough of everything for the wants of the islanders. f'urtnijhtly i:ee'uu, JMsappearance of Poplar. Poplar, one of the desirable Southern .oods has already rea hed that point of limit in supply whe: e large consumers are looking around for a substitute. Nome of the St. I.ouis chair manufacturers are now giving the Cottonwood a trial iu tho manufacture of chairs, and they lire so well pleased that they will be likely in the future to use more of it than of the costly ma enul whose place place it . . - , . : . i 'HKl'8; " "T" a verv ! ",se '"'"" ' tl0" to '"','sh cerium varieties of i .wuiivvw,i swill I'WIIilll , l IIU Ulill II UVU in cost between the former wood and poplar is bound to bring it into market iu general competition with the latter. (J iuljc DenuK ra'.
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