THE FOREST REPUBLICAN
U pnbllahed rry Wdneiday, by
J. E. WENK.
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thiin tbr- month. r
Oormponclrnr nollclttfd from alt pert of he
country. No notice will bo UkTO-ofioonymoin
wniunlcatlona.
The Swiss are a nation of hotel keeper
Thero are ia Switzerland a thousand
hotels, containing 53,000 beds, and em
ploying 10,000 servants. Tho gross in
come from these hotels is considerably
more than the nnnual budget of the
confederation.
The development of bituminous coal
Xlandsin Virginia within the past few
years bas been very rapid. Up to within
a few years the coal production of Vir
ginia was comparatively limited, but
estimates are from 3,000,000 to 5,000,000
tons for this ye:ir.
The War Department has been look
ing up the-militia force on account of
the recent war talk, and it is ascertained
that the nalion has 7,( 01,000 men avail
able for military duty, of whom 94,000
arc well drilled and armed. Excited
neighbors p'ease take the hint
The artificial honey now made in New
Tork is so close to the genuine that only
the experts can detect tho difference.
It is in racks, tho same as the natural
. product, and now and then the wing
and legi of a few dead bees are to be
found to further the deception. It can
be sold at a profit for ten cents per
pound.
Manufacturers are favoring the estab
lishment of relief associations. Several
New England employers have started
them. One in Portland, Me., has a
membership of 129. All persons whose
wa.jes are over f 3 a week pay 1 fee and
ten cent per week, which entitles a
member in case of sickness to $3 per
wrec until f.'OO has been drawn out,
and to f 23 in case of death.
Nearly four thousand retail butchers
cater to the demands of New York City
and Brooklyn. The average number of
journeymen employed in each retail
house is three, making a total of twelvo
thousand. One hundred and fifty
wholesale beef butchers, the same num
ber of wholesale dealers in mutton, lamb
and veal, and about twenty-five hog
slaughterers are also adjuncts of the
trade. A capital of nearly fifty millions
is invested by butchers in tho two cities.
- t'ome of the wholesale men are triple
millionaires. Many of the retail shop
butchers are worth all the way from ten
tQJUfty thousand dollars. The weekly
pay of the journeymen ranges from f 12
to flS.
Quail have multiplied so in California
that they are a nuisance. When the
game law was beiug discussed in the
Assembly the other day Assemblyman
"2" - 'her. - ".
J . C Bmwnell. Proprietor. Tins
You.lu'flSvI!ai'aVe'vSl5tI5alu
, in his county (San Diego) ag.iiust quail,
which eome-down in swarms upon vine
yards and destroy them. Owners of
vineyards have persons employed to do
nothing else than kill these birds, which
l,e declared have become an intolerable
nuisanco in this county. He recited an
instance where a swarm of these quails
ate up the pasturage that cattle fed J pon.
His con titucnts demanded that a remedy
be pro riJed. The bill was so amended
that quuilTv be killed between March
1 and SerVtiber 10, while during tho
grape season they may be also trapped.
The Japanese are undoubtedly the
most progressive people of Asia. The
position of this country, lying oil the
coast of the continent, it very much the
same at that of the British Isles as re
, gards Europe. They are adopting Eu
ropean ideas aud methods as no other
people in Asia have ever done. But they
jre now proposing to adopt European
dress, and the London Tine strongly
yet somewhat comically, protests against
this, as their own dress is so much more
convenient and becoming. This, says
the Cdlticiitor, is a poor showing for
Europeans if the Times is correct. It re
mains for our civilization to overcome
soma of the absurdities of fashionable
costume, or a seini-civilied and even
barbarian people will lose confidence in
our boosted superiority.
' Mrs. T. J. Hammond, of Brunswick,
Mo., "owns what she is please 1 to term a
very knowing cat and the feline certain
ly exhibits very rare intelligence. It is
a large and beautiful Maltese, less than
a year old, and has been taught to per
form a number of tricks very unusual for
a cat,, one of which is to ring a ch stnut
bell, and it frequently turns the lauyh
on Mrs. Hammond by making the bell
t nkle while she is recounting some freak
of its intelligence. When the cat feels
that a mou-e would be an addition to its
bill of fare it brings the trap to Mrs.
Hammond to be set and then goes fre
quently to see if the denied mouse Las
been ra ght. When such is the case the
trap is again taken to some one by l'un,
who will remove the mouso from it. It
niakes no effort to catch mice in the or
dinary way, preferring, apparently, t..e
invention of man fcs an easier way to oh
tain a sweet morsel.
VOL. III. NO. 48.
OLD AND YOUNO.
They soon grow old who grope for gold
In marts where all is bought and sold;
Who live for self, and on some shelf
In darkened vaults hoard up their pelf.
Cankered and crusted o'er with mould,
For them their youth itself la old.
ir.
They ne-'er grow old who gather gold
Where spring awakes and flowers unfold;
Whore suns arise In joyous skies,
And fill the soul within their eyes.
For them the immortal bards have sung,
For them old ago itself is young.
C. F. Cranch.
"OUT OF THE COMMON."
And the sunlight danced in at the
window and turned her hair to shining
ku.v., lum ucu lau crisp gray locks ot
John Roge-s, and made a friendly circle
of light and warmth about the pair.
"I could not go against mamma's
wishes, you know," the young lady said,
gently, playing wit 1 the ring on her left
hand, 'jsbe has had a long talk with
me this morning, and, though I knew
she disapproved of our engagement, I
never realized before how her heart was
set against it."
"And you do not think by patient
waiting by proving how earnest we
are ''
"No. John. Mother cannot look- nn
if as wc do ; she realizes all the disad
vantages nnd none of the hopes that we
have builron; and then "the young:
lady glanced down once at her delicate ;
hands before she continued "would it I
be quite fair, John, forme to wait, and !
nd let all other opportunities glide by, i
and grow old nnd sad while I waited i" j
John started. There was so much cau
tion suggested in the words. No doubt
she was but repeating them after her
mother, but tin y fell chillingly on his !
ears from those young lips. j
It is true, Maud," he answered, j
while a look of pain lingered on his face. ;
"You shall not let other chances of hap- i
piness flip by because you are bound to
me. It is not the love I thought you j
gave mo a love which trusts and hopes '
in patient faithfulness. I am no longer ;
young, dear, but I have ri-ked much on
tnis dream of love, coming late in life,
but coming for tho first time, Maud,
and" his voice broke "staying with
me always." .
He ros-s and turned partly away from
her, quite still, leaning Ms arms on the
mantel-piece. Maud Branson rose too,
ami came toward him, her delicate,
beautiful face full of concern. There
was nothing about John Rogers to at
tract notice.. He was a very plain man,
no longer young; but he had at least
some charm of mind or soul which had
won the love of a very beautiful woman.
Her dress clung in gra eful folds to her
slender figure, a fillet of blue bcunjd the
golden hair, which was coiled in classic
simplicity about her head. He turned
and looked at her, taking in all the de
tails of the picture ; then he nut his head
ia I Um fthr. J use oh fv-iwden.
xo.L ectedly on his crossed arms.
Maud extended one hand appealingly. '
"John. ou will take it?"
"Ves, Maud," he answered, drawing
his breath hard. "I take it and re
nounce it." He patted tbe soft surfa e
once or twice, thoughtfully. " All that 1
came with it, and all that goes with it.
Maud, good-by." j
There was such. a noble sadness in his
face that it touched her. The proud
head bent lower, until it rested on John
Rogers's shoulder. She raised herself
with eyes stiil wet. '
"Liood-by, John. The world can't
give just what we want."
".No, dear. What is it?" I
"Your ring." !
He took the pretty sapphire ring he '
had placed on her hand one day with
only half-rcalbed rapture and slipped it
in his vest pocket. It was worthless
now. '
And so John Rogers left the house and j
threaded his way down tbe busy streets. I
The sunlight still danced over him warm
and beautiful, kissing his grave f ice, his
hair, his hands.
" 'And let all other opportunities glide
by; " he repeated the word to himself, j
ruefully. "It's not the old-fashioned
love; not the love I used to dream of
when I was a boy. Perhaps there isn't
any nowadays."
He looked very tired as he ran up the
steps and rang at the door of his boarding-house.
Clarice noticed it, his land
lady's daughter.
"You look tired, Mr. Rogers," look
ing up from her work and speaking
through the open door.
He smiled, wearily.
"Do 1? And what are you doing,
Clarice? Still sewing for these hardened
little wretches!"
"Yes; isn't this a big hole I am darn
ing? Boys do wear out their clothes so
fast. You arc home early from the
otllce."
"Yes, I had an engagement at three
o'clock nnd did not care to go back.
Muv I come in and have a chat with ;
you?"
"Oh, yes, if you care to." with her
quick smile, a smile which her eyes be
lied, ac.d which always seemed to John 1
"made to order." She pulled forward
a chair w ithout ri-ing, aud went on witb
her darning again. "I sit in here be
cause it's cool, and I always do my sew- .
ing afternoons; in tbe morniDgs there is
housework."
it was a shabby little parlor, seldom I
uced by the boarders, who were princi- ;
pally gentlemen, und spent their even- j
ings out. if not in their own rooms. A
few tawdry decorations only enhanced
the bhabbiness of tne threadbare carpet,
dirty wall-, aud ancient lace curtains.
"I'o you never have any amusements,
Clarice?' asked John, trying to forget
his own wretchedness by interesting
himself ia some one else.
"Amusements?" sb repeated, pushing
tfc curl oil br forshoad ia suiilsd
TIONESTA, PA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1887.
way. ,lO, yes; there is a Mr. Jones; he
plays the piano; and once Mr. Aikens,
the elocution teacher, read a piece, and
all the boarders came in."
John smiled, eyeing the little maiden
pityingly as she stitched away. She
looked up suddenly and caught his
eye.
"Wo did not always kocp boarders,"
cho said, proudly, reading something
there she did not like. "When I was at
school we were well of! and had a nice
house; but mamma is a widow with
eight children, you know, and I have to
help her about the work."
"I know," taid John, kindly, looking
at little C larice with so much sympathy
that she quite warmed toward him, and
continued confidentially :
"Once I had a beautiful time that
was a good while ago a girl I knew at
school hunted me up, wrote to me. and
invited me to visit her. It was in Phila
delphia" "And did you go?"
"Ah.yes.and it was a beautiful time!"
Then, her face falling, "but I had to
come home. It was all over in three
months."
"Ah, that was hard," sympathetic
ally. ' Yes, it was, Mr. Rogers," taking ut
another jacket and beginning on a new
hole. "For they were rich, you know,
and it was quite like old times their
nice house and all and then to come
back here the noise and the children,
and clearing up the rooms it seemed
worse after that. But nerhaDS I shouldn't
have minded if it hadn't been for there
was something worse than all that," con- '
tinned Clarice, working hard at the !
jacket, with crimson cheeks. '
" Will you tell me about it?" asked :
John Rogers, very kindly, his honest
gray eyes softening. " It does one good
sometimes to tell one's troubles, and I am j
so much older than you."
Clarice looke 1 up, quite gratified at
this unexpected sympathy. j
"I will tell you. Mr. Rogers. It was
when I was in Philadelphia that I met !
Harris Harris Bell and I was odif- j
fercnt there, at tho parties I went to with '
Fannie, that ho thought I was pretty, !
and told me so, and said that he loved '
mc, and wanted me to be his wife. I had !
a pretty white dress, you know," tim- '
idly, and glancing blushing y down at '
her present faded calico, "and wore,
flowers and you can scarcely under- 1
stand me."
" Y'es. I can understand it," said John, ;
noting the light in the brown eyes and
the newly-acquired color. " Tell me the
rest, Crarice."
"And we were engaged and I could
fcarcely believe it but I wag very
happy. He was such a handsome gentle- j
man, too, and so aristocratic, and I did '
not mind the boarders, or anything
when I thought about Harris. So at last
he came here to see me; and he saw
mamma; and the children, the house and
the boarders, and I can't tell you how it.
was, but he was dilferent. He didn't
tell me he was changed, but he was rest
less, and it worried him, and I saw he
cared. I am proud. Mr. Rogers, though
we are poor now, and I broke it all up.
Jsi"vttilS Iove 1 had dreamed of. I
il r 1 . l n,a"T novels, and I i
nroufeu o. love was
bad read a gre,. .
thought life was a fairy tale auw 3
beautiful. I always used to think, N !...
some one comes to love me I'll never be
sad or vexed any more;' and Harris
seemed to me all I had wished for until I
saw the house and the boarders 'retted
him. For I had dreamed of a love that
would be out of the common, and that
when I went away with my lover I
thought I, too, would be better, just as
he wished me to be. So I told him, Mr.
Rogers, it was all over, nnd he said per
haps we were not fitted to make each
other happy. And then he went away,
and the work and the noise and the
boarders fretted me as they had never
done before. For somehow, although I
could not love him as cuch for treating
me so, the thoughts about him and the
dreams about him wcro all gone and I
missed them so."
'i'oor child!" said John, tenderly.
"But it's my own fault. Mr. Rogers.
I expected too much. There is no such
love as I have dreamed about, and
mother says I did very wrcng to break
it off. She was very angry with me;
but Tknew the e things would always
fret him, and I could not bear it."
' Clarice, would it help you any to
knew that I, too, have sullered as you
have suffered?" asked John, for two
shining teurs had dropped on the boy's
jacket. I, too, dreamed of love, anxi I
found a woman whom I believed had
given me that love; but because her
psr nts found in me only a plain, poor
man, no longer young, she gave me up.
She gave up faith, and rutt, and hope,
because sh" had not that real love which
you describe."
He stopped speaking. He had forgot
ten the little girl in her calico gown,
and was gazing abstractedly out of the
window, hard lines of regret and pas
sionate despair written on his face.
Suddenly he felt a little, warm, soft
hand laid gently on his, and Clarice
said :
"Mr. Rogers, I am so sorry."
Ho wrung the little working hari,
and then he rose and went to his room
and gave way to his new sorrow.
Clarice folded her sewing and put it
away; but it comforted ber as she went
about her evening duties that Mr. Rogers
had listened to her story, and to know
that he, too, had missd the love he
dreamed of.
Several months had passed awav.
John Rogers had often found his way
into the shabby little parlor, and chattid '
with Cla Ice. uce he h id found a bunch
of rlowers on his bureau, and no ro ra
in tbe house was such a model of order.
line day, as he sauutere 1 into the par- I
lor, toward dusk, hoping that his little
friend would come there with litr bas- i
ket of mending nnd sit awhile, ha heard
tho rustle of feininiji-.jj.aauIi, nl,
looking up, saw that iai landlady stood '
before him. Mrs. Detn was a woman 1
who prided herself on her former dig. f
nity. She wore a very long and dusty
alpaca. It being no longer within hei :
limits to trail silk, she trailed alpaca.
Some persons are of this mold. Hei ;
hands, which she folded majestically,
with pleasure that Clarice was "! !
were very grimy, itogers remembered
neat
"Mr. Rogers," began the ladv with
unusual dignity4 "pray be seated, jl
nave noticed for some time past that
you nave frequently of evenings found ;
your way into my parlor, and passed th
time in conversation with mv daughter.
Clarice. I should not speak of this cir
cumstance had not events, which have
already come to paas, taught me to be
guarded. Clarice is no longer a child,
she is a woman, with all a woman's read
inesi to love pathetically. You, though
not a young man, are a bachelor, and I
ask you, as a mother, to spare my daugh
ter's feelings. As I said before, I should
not have spoken of this had not a cir
cumstance which transpired this morn
ing led me to believe it was my duty,
my most urgent duty. My daughter
is in the nabit of assisting with
the housework, in clearing and putting
in order tbe rooms of my gentlemen
boarders. This morning I entered vour
room expecting to find Clarice dusting
dusting with all the light-heartedness
inspired by a well-fulfilled duty," con
tinued Mrs. Dean, waxing eloquent.
"Imagine my consternation when I found
her kneeling by the bedside, her face
pressed against the pillows, in tears.
l?he sprang up nnd tried to hide her agi
tation, but .Mr. Rogers, I am a widow
with eight children and a large houseful
of boarderi. I cannot have you trifle
with the feelings of my daughter. If yon
are not in earnest you must desist." And
tho lady applied a handkerchief to her
eyes.
It is said by some people that poverty
is degrading. It had certainly proved
so with Jlrs. Dean.
"Madam," Eaid John Rogers, with
dignity, rising and laying his hand on
the chair, "if I had not already learned
to love your daughter this tale might
work upon my sympathies and appeal to
my honor, but it could never make words
of love pass from my lips that my heart
could not echo. I cannot applaud your
course in revealing your daughter's emo
tion, and which she would no doubt bat
tel ly regret. I love Clarice; she stole
into my heart when it was sore and
bleeding: and if I have awakened any
re.-ponse I am a happier and more hon
ored man than I had believed."
He bowed with the gentle courtesy
which John Rogers always used toward
women, and passed out of the room, leav
ing Mrs. Dean very much relieved, but
somewhat humiliated.
John entered his room and shut the
door. He struck a light and turned on
the gas, pulled down the shade, and
stood irresolute. Like one in a dream he
went to tbe bedside and laid his hand
against the pillow. It was si ghtly damp.
He sank down in a chair and covered his
face with his hands. For a long time he
sat there motionless; then he arose, took
out his evening newspaper, and lighted
his cigar as usual.
It was a June afternoon.
"John," said Clarice, touching his
. I iontined to bis
arm with a certain nu.
idity she had never
M r. TVnrsoll.
- V?
eotlcV
outgrown, Hie is a tairy tale, anu e
is beautiful, only it comes in a different
way."
"And this is the love we have dreamed
of." And John Rogers looked into the
dewy brown eyes of the little girl in the
calico gown, and putting his arm around
her waist pressed her close to his heart.
And the sunlight danced in at the
window and touched the sweet lips learn- j
ing to smile with heart content, and the
grave, iond lace oi jonn rogers. Ana
it folded them in its embrace, warm
and beautiful, bright and golden, and it
glorified even the shabby little boarding
house parlor, and lifted it " out of the
common."
Scott in the Mexican War.
His victories have never received the
credit justly due them on account of the
apparent ease with which they were
gained. The student of military history
will rarely mi et with accounts of battles
in any age where the actual operations
coincide so exactly with the orders is
sued upon the eve of conflict as in the
ollicial reports of the wonderfully ener
getic and successful campaign in which
General Scott, with a handful of men,
renewed the memory of the conquest of
Cortes, in his triumphant march from
Vera Cruz to the Capital. The plan of
the battle of Cerro Gordo was so fully
carried out in action that the official re
port is hardly more than the general or
ders translated from the future tense to
the ast. The story of Chapultepec has
the same element of the marvelous in it.
The General commands apparent lmpos
sibil'ties in the closest detail on one day,
and the next day reports that they have
been accomplished. These successes
were not cheap!y attained. The Mexi
cans,though deticient in science and md
itary intelligence, fought with bravery
and sometimes with desperation. The
enormous p-irccntae of loss in his army
proves that Scott was engaged ia no
light work. Ceilary.
'Whose 1"
A witty retort scmetiraes answers a
well as a long argument. There are
some things not easy to explain, and no
better answer, says I'uu'h't t'.i.n'ci,
could have been made to the Engl'shman
criticising our social customs th in that
made by .Mr. Lincoln:
"You ee, sir, there is a tremendous
di.Terence between the tnii-h customs
an 1 tlie Ameiieun. For example, no
gentleman in England," remarked the
l.oiido,er, "would ever think of black
ing h:s own boots, don't you know."
"'Wouldn't he.'" inquired Mr. Lincoln,
thoughtfully. "Wb, whosj would Irn
LlackC
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PECULIAR AFFLICTION.
CASE THAT IfO DOCTOB
TO UNDERSTAND.
8EEM3
A n ?ho 1 APPr Hojalthy.
om oai recaiiar mental sensa-
tions-bufrerln Ulteeti ears.
"I wish vou would make an inquiry
for me through the columns of the Sun,"
said a stout, healthy-looking man to a
renorter. The inquirer was about 5 feet
0 inches high, weighed probably 170
pounds, and looked the picture of
physical and mental comfort.
"Yes, I lookLealthy enough," said he,
"but the truth is that I have not felt
well a mou.ent for fifteen years. The
worst of it is that no doctor seems to
understand the cae. There was an
article in the fnn sometime ago about
strange mental disease, and one of them,
called neurophobia, where the victim
had a horror of going past certain places,
seemed to be the n"artst to my case I
ever heard of, but it did not fit me ex
actly. I have tried allopathy, home
opathy, water cure, mind cure, faith
cure, dieting, recreation, and no doctor
ing at all, but the result is always the
same. It started with a general break
down from intellectual overwork, with
all its accompaniments of dyspepsia,
nervous prostration, and the like. But
now I sleep well, eat like a pig, have no
dyspepsia, and can stnnd a good deal of
mental and physical work, Toss of sleep,
etc., without inconvenience. At the
same time I am in a continual state of
torment.
"1 will be feeling good for a while,
when all of a sudden there is a sensation
that something is goin x, to happen. '1 hen
I grow restless, frightened, and finally
fall into a regular panic, just as one
would if he were in a front seat in a the
atre and somebody should cry fire and the
audience start to rush out. This merges
into a sort of spasm of the ttomach, ac
companied by a dimness of vision, a
quaking of the knees, complete physical
prostration, trembling, palpitation of
the heart, deafness, and a complete col
lapse. The only thing that will stop it
is a tremendous effort of the will to
throw it off, but in many cases the will
itself appears to be weak and sick, and
not within my control. Opium, cocaine,
bromide of potassium, valerian, ignatia,
and liquors have been tried for relief.
The quickest is liquor, the stimulus of
which overcomes temporarily the attack,
but in an hour there is a reacting de
pression that can only be overcome by
sleep. Opium seems to be a specific also,
but its action is less rapid, and for feat
of the habit growing I do not like to take
that.
"Another peculiar phase of the troubl
is a monomania ogain-t going far away
from home and in certain places, wherein
it is like the disease called neurophobia
by the one who wrote up the iun articl
some time ago. I cannot go to ew
York without some strong person with
me to take care of me. I never want
any caie, but it appears as if I had not
the confidence in my ability to take care
of myself. I cannot walk through the
streets of a city alone on fiag stones or
brick pavements. The symptoms are
the same day or night. But, stiange to
say, as soon as i reacn me country,
lL'" vre are broad telds and no side-
weiretlia.rra'r',','ve M any one nd have
walks, I am as iv.L11 la" and have equal
no unpleasant symptoih'JJ'-'ur or night,
self-reliance and confidence Vnjiiu-' to
If I persist, making up my mina'-'o,
tight the feeling down, its soon as
I get a few blocks distant from
house or oriice, the punics come
on
aD,v
and I sek to fly anywhere,
vhere out of myself for relief. An
other singular feat ire of the disease is
that while I cannot go away anywhere
alone where I have to walk, I can go on
wheels. If I h ive a hack to the cars and
step from the cars to another hack, I
have none of these unpleasant symptoms.
This feature is of recent trigin. For
merly I could not go away alone even on
wheels. Riding on the cars is restful
to my nerves. A ride of fifty miles will
make me quite myself again, but a sail
on a steamboat has a contrary effect. One
of the most horrible experiences is to go
out in a small boat fishing, for fear of
obeying an impulse to jump ove board.
This is not from fear, through unfarail
iarity, for I was almost bro igat up in a
row boat.
"The inability to walk around town in
terferes greatiy with busiuc-s, it b -ing
sometimes necessary to get a hack to go
a distance of two blocks. On some
days the nervousness is worse than on
others. At times F am afra.d to get into
a barber's chair. I do not know what I
am afraid of. I cannot fathom it, but I
am terror-sti icken, I am not physically
a coward. I could look into the muzla
of a cocked pistol without flinching
(and I have often felt tempted to look
into one with my own ringer on tho
triggcri, but I am afraid of some intan
gible thing or state of things that I can
not describe, because 1 do not know
what they are.
"I have, as I said before, tried all
sorts of doctors and all so: ts of remedies
in vain. 1 hive spent a fortune to re
cover my health, and a:n still almost
where I started. In the course of my
experience I have met several persons
somewhat similarly aillictcd."
The sufferer aJded that he was regu
lar in his haliits, did not smoke or chew,
used no coffee, ate only plain, substan
tial food.-., and only touch -d liquor as a
remedial agent to relieve the horrible
utia k. JVcr Turk X'tH.
The eider du k, like most arctic
species, is common to both hemispheres.
It breeds in great numbers in Labrador.
Li Ice an l tbe down of the eider due w
so valuable that the r'-st ng daces i .
c .refully guarded and thei-ggs and d.:cks
kre not destroyed. An ounce of down
from a nut U cousidirud a vod prgj.
iioo.
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A MIRROR.
Life's pretty mur-h what we make It,
It's only a looking glass true.
And refioct? back shadow for shadow,
The very image of you.
The good deeds will always be rmiling,
The bad will look vicious and vile.
The face you behold ia the mirror
Is only yourself all the while.
And the longer tbe shadow's reflected.
The deeper the impress will be.
It shows for good or for evil,
As it sends back the features yon see.
You're only to take the world easy,
Mingle alone with the good to be had.
And the face you ee in the mirror
- 'Will always be bappy and glad.
.Vora F. Higginron.
HUM Oil OF THE DAY.
Tneragrran's business is picking up.
It only takes half a hog to make its
forequarter. Goo-laXC Hun.
If the barber stands at the head of
his profession, the chiropodist stands at
the foot of his profession. Carl Pretzel.
"Where is the ideal wife?" asks a
prominent lecturer. In the cellar split
ting kindlicg.most likely. Philadelphia
Call.
The man who was born with a silver
spoon in his mouth is now looking about
for something to eat with the spoon.
Lowell Citizen.
If any dime museum wants to coin
money it should exhibit a wife who can
make as good pies as mother used to.
Nexo llaven Neic$.
Only one thing is needed to make the
toboggan an enormous success, and that
is, a patent arrangement that will cause
it to gravitate up hill. Life.
Sam Jones refused to address a gather
ing of newspaper men at Boston, ilia
work appears to be exclusively among
the sinners. IHiUburg Chronicle.
Why women kiss each other is
An undetermined question.
Unless tbe darlings would by this
liive man a sweet suggestion.
Sijtings.
There are two things jn the world that
I can't understand ; one is, that you catch
a cold without trying; that if you let it
run on, it stays with you, and if you stop
it, it goes away. Uurdetle.
Henry Ward Beecher says money is not
necessary to happiness. Of "course not.
Neither is lemon juice necessary to a raw
oyster, but it adds mightily to its succu
lence. Riltimore Amerlan.
As life is full of ops and downs, this thought
Miit comfort all:
Who're on the ladder's lowest rung: they've
not
Got far to fall.
Bo ft on Courier.
"There is no business In the world,"
says the Bulletin, "which can be carried
on successfully in the face of a loss of 50
percent." How about driving a water
cart, old man? San. Franeisco Xeict Let
ter. In the opinion of scientists there will
come a period when the earth will cease
to revolve on its axis. To the man, how
ever, who, on going home at night, has
to wait for an opportunity to catch his
bed as it posses him, it will continue to
go round. Seie Yvrk Sew.
Canvasback Ducks.
Though many persons annually cnioy
probably thought of the summer houses
of tho ducks, where the vacancies in
their numbers caused by the industry cf
winter fowlers are tilled by young birds.
The ducks are found along the Atlantic
coast as far nwrth as Canada, but they
migrate in the greatest numbers in the
fait to the Chesapeake Bay and its trib
utaries, where they find their favorite
fool, the valunenaor wild celery, a fresh
water plant, whose roots they feed u. on,
and which gives thuin the juiciness and
peculiar flavor which distinguishes them
from other ducks and atones for their
comparative lack of bright plumage.
They fol.ow winter down the Atlantic
coast "and remain in the Chesapeake
waters during the winter months. When
the spring opening xcurs they wing
their way acro-s the country in a north
westward direction and spend the sum
mer months breeding and raisin? their
young in tbe neighborhood of the cool
waters of the I pper Rocky Mountain
system aud in the far north ot the fiftieth
degree north latitude. There alone can
their eir's be obtained. A well known
restaurateur of this city conceived the
idea of rais'ng anvaback ducks in Bal
timore. He procured two crippled birds
a male and female but his experi
ments were unsuccessful, as the bird
pined for the cool air of the Brit.sh
American forests. L'a.'tiuurt Urn.
Ciunuiug for Sea Lions.
William Arnold has been gunning for
sea lions of late at Tillamook, and with
good success, having already 216. Tho
bodies of the-c huge beasts blown ashore
lined the beach for miles. hile others
have been writing letter; abo it fish
wheels, traps, and pound-nets, Mr. Ar
nold has taken bis little gun and done
good. practical work for the preservation
of our s.ilinoui intercrs and salmon nets.
The sea lion was doubtless created for
some useful purpose, probably to prevent
saluun from bjcomiug too numerous.
Ya-t numbers of thciii congregate at
Till anvi.'k rock and at Seal rocks, a tew
m.les south nnd near the shore, wh're
they live nt their ca-e and prey upon tho
shoals of salmon entering tlie Columbia.
It ia estimate I that half the salmon
TThich come into the Columbia in the
curly part of the -eiuon ar.- capture 1 by
bca lions, which also daiKes nets t the
amount of ten thounle of doll'
Pvrt'.tnd CrcfttiMi'
,.,",""!'rt of shooting canvnsback ducks,
tb b'j. '' ''vland sportsmen and the
the iov of i.Ul'lt" " enii-ure. '
nri,1 of Baltimore1'1 "I'li1 vtfaVe