THE FOEEST REPUBLICAN
Ii pnbllahed svety Wedneeday, by
J. . WENK.
Offloft in Bmoarbaugh & Co.'s Building
KLX iTRKRT, TIONESTA, Pa,
Terms, .
I. BO per Year.
No inbaerlritlon received for a shorter period
than three months.
Oorreepondenee solicited from all parte of the
country. No notic will bo taken of aoonmoiia
rwmnnloatloBa.
A shoe dealer in Brooklyn has just lost
a suit he brought against a former
sweetheart, to recover $14 for shoes fur
nished her. The court believed her
tory, that the shoes had been pre-
t'ented to her as expressions of affec
tion.
The Anarchists who were recently sen
tenced to various terms of imprisonment
by tho Austrian Government will each
have to fast one day every month, and
one of them will have to spend the an
niversary of his proposed crime in a dark
cell.
One of, tho most eccentric rich men In
New York city is old Ben Richardson.
ITe is snjjb-to be worth $2,000,000 or
rooreriivcs in a small, tumble-down
v"Mistfup-town. He owns the historic
Washington coach, which he lets out
whenevcrTere is a demand for this revo
lutionary relic.
An electrician, named Thompson, has
been endeavoring to stir up Buffalo, N.
Y., to the evils of electric light conv
panics which, he says, employ such large
batteries and load them up with elcc-
lurpff to such an extent, that some of it
scapes and destroys the purity of the
Jocal air and water.
Tho fruit jellies of commerce are fit
ingly called horticultural oleomargarine
' y Orchard and Garden, because they are
ich a compound of adulterations. For
stance, jfd "currant jelly" is com
"sed of w:r, glucose, tartaric acid,
olatinc, aniline red, nnd dried cores and
kins of apples, the refuse of cvanoratina
stablishments, often sour and decayed
cfore drying.
Over forty persons treated by M
astcur for hydrophobia have afterward
cd of tho disease; tho last case of the
'ud being of an eminent Spauiard who
us bitten by a rabid wolf, pronounced
ured by Fasteurjiw4oon afterward
ok the disease in vTofcWTorm and with
(results. Eminent medical men in
' (J London do not hesitate to
argbjVsteur's treatment not only
oes noTSNa rabies, but imparts the
isease to its jiments.
Arkansas, recently, Mrs. Sarah Dim
i was riding along the road with her
lie boy behind her, and in passing a
rning tree saw that it was going to full
oss thelYad. She screamed and the
e storJjAl still, when, quick as light
yrrshe jifnped off, suiitched her child,
1 got out of the way just as the tree
ue crashing down across the saddle,
ing the horse instantly. Tho lady
played presence of mind and quick
's of action that would have done
lit to any man.
s. clergyman-at Ebinburgh has been
iiissed by his congregation because he
d his baby in a perambulator. Ho
t shocked their feelings by carrying
infant abroad in his arms, whereupon
j made him the present of a baby-
iage. He did not take the hint, how
r, and transfer the pleasing duty to
ie one else, but wheeled the vehicle
ng the Streets with tho baby in it, and
- they sent him a polite letter inform
g him that while his abilities gave
hem satisfaction, his pastoral services
would be no longer required.
Dr. W. K. Newton, the New Jersey
:dry -Commissioner, has recently issued
report which throws a gopd deal ifi
;ht upon the question of popular d
and for imitations of butter when the Lj
re known to be such. He gives it as
ie result of his observations that there
very little of such demand, and states
hat the claim of sales having increased
irgely since tho passage of the National
aw is entirely without foundation. He
finds that the sales of the imitation pro
duct in New Jersey have decreased about
""wW'i many dealers who took
i-MJor its sale have returned
, f stock to the factory, as they found
impossible to sell when they could not
6 the stuff off as the geuuine article.
James M. Stevens of East .Northport,
y, tells this story of a horse's suicide:
..team that had been worked a long
ue together were sold, and one of them
.ken to Massachusetts. The other was
given to a neighbor's son, being consid
worn out. Whenever he could get
Jose he made his way back to the farm
where he had lived so long. On one of
these ewlie went to the old watering
trough, drank, and wandered over the
premises, and at K'Dgth, with his head
drooping nearly to the ground, turned
into a lane that led to the shore of a bay.
Reaching the water, he waded far out,
aud, finally getting beyond his depth, sunk
and was drowned. His actions were per
fectly deliberate, and it seemed evident
,'j;it it was his purpose to make way with
Umself.
VOL. II. NO, 6.
SUCH IS 1.1 FB.
I saw a little child at play.
nace was very fair;
BlueWere her eyes as summer ikies,
And golden was her hair.
I looked again
Ah, met
I saw a woman, old and pray,
Trudging, slowly, her lonely way,
A widowed wifol
.
And such is life.
Josiah Carter:
TWO PALMS.
Mrs. Van dcr Venter's soirees were fa
mous. They wcro always small, invari
ably select, and pervaded with a subtle
charm, the result of the experience, tho
rare good taste, of the hostess. Her
salons were large. Her trained sense of
artistic harmony had arranged the drawing-room
suite into a seres of delightful
"interiors." Artists found nothing to
suggest in the appointment of these rest
tul, elegant apartments.
The hostess was a woman of brains, a
widow, and forty-eight. She spent her
days in a mixture of noble and frivolous
undertakings, maintaining a golden poiso
somewhere between society and philan
thropy, rendering excellent service to
both. Unrecognized genius, aristocratic
impecuniosity, undowered beauty, found
their way to her presence and her kind
ness as easily as fashion and fame.
On one midwinter night the soft lights
glowed through the length and breadth
of her house. Clad in some stately silk,
Mrs. Van dor Venter stood at tho salon
door, while a liveried footman announced
the arriving Piiests. Hrr nnrrlinl amila
O . u
and warm hand shake welcomed each one
singly, ana presently the hum of conver
sation rose to a substantial measure. All
had arrived but one. Miss Lisette Dew.
ing, who was iiually announced by the
footman. She entered hastily, and was
affectionately greeted.
-rorgive me it lam late," she mur
mured. "Onlv late enough to rrirn iwlri;tinnil
point to your coming," smiled back Mrs.
v au uer v enter.
As "music" had hnptt mpntinnnrl nn fVio
cards, the guests soon composed them-
auivcs in auuuues ot attention. Music
at Mrs. Van der Venter's was always of a
kind to dispel ennui. A noted violinist.
a Celebrated vocalist, a cri-nt niiiniut
0 j-
Derformed in turn. Faint anrl wpll.riroH
applause repaid each artist for the effort.
Then Mrs. Van der Venter stated that
she held a surprise in reserve in the per
son of Mr. Sutherland, the famous chiro
mancer. Movinnr tn thn pntranco a
Mrs. Van der Venter glided through the
portiere. She soon reappeared with her
hand on the arm of a young blonde man
who looked quite harmless and benevo
lent, which surprised those who hud
heard of his extraordinarv. one inio-ht nav
his occult, gifts. To a close observer
cealain crafty lines ut the corners of the
eyenndicuted habits of observation and
calculation that had become second nature.
He had in a brief time, through tho in
satiable desire of human beings to hear
about themselves, risen to be at nncn a
social lion and a mystic power.
fortius reason, when Mrs. Van der
Venter introduced him to her friends,
each person prepared for the enticing
ordeal of a mural scanning. Hands of
all shapes and sizes were bared. The
left escapes the marks of rough usage
and change, so chiromancy elects the left
hand for study.
An eager crowd clustered quickly
about Mr. Sutherland. One man only, a
sarcastic smile curving his handsome lips,
stood aloof. A tall, striking figure, with
black hair tinged with gray. Not height
alone gave him distinction, but a certain
haughty bearing, which vanished in a
genial bon?tomie when -he talked. He
looked skeptical, and felt so. This char
acter reading from hands was very good
sport for a lot of girls, but he did not
dream of joining the students of the new
lore.
His face darkened into a scowl when
Lisette Dewing entered the group about
the sofa. His glances had wandered con
stantly in her direction during the even
ing, but he had not annroaclird hrr
, . i i
Her interest in him was expressed appa
rently in one little cold stilt bow.
A popular society girl, without much
intellect, was the first to present her
hand. Mr. Sutherland took it daintily,
and cast a swift, keen glance at her smil
ing, thoughtless face. His remarks were
evidently satisfactory, in spite of tho
knowing smiles which passed among the
listeners. When he had finished, she
rose in a flutter and joined the sarcastic
observer at the hearth.
"Oh, Mr. Burlingame, it's positely
awful! He's so truel lie told me my
faults in a way that quite frightened
me."
"What did he tell you, Miss Manton?"
queried Mr. Burlingame.
"Oh, he said that 1 had a very sound
nature. That I would never do anybody
any harm, because I couldn't; and tk'it'i
awfully true, you know. And that 1 had
never been iu love, and would make
somebody some day a very good wife,
and that I would surely marry rich. And
oh yes! he tried very hard to trace it,
he did indeed, but he had to give it up,
and tell me that my head line seemed to
be scattered or dissipated, for it vanished
into nothing. lin't that wonderful !"
The last remarks almost converted Mr.
Burlingame. Deur Dolly Manton's head
line had never appeared to anybody.
'He certainly seems to have raado
points," he responded, ambiguously.
"You must let him analyze you, Mr.
Burlingame. You are such a riddlo to
us girls, you know. You will, won't
you?"
Mr. Burlingame merely smiled, as a
burst of laughter rose from the crowd."
Mr. Sutherland held the red chubby
fTOS
TIONESTA. PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1887.
hand of a follower of Oscar Wildo, Mr
Barton, who painted pictures of an un
wholesome kind. His work showed
talent perverted to bad uses. His fingers
were red and square, his hand coarse and
thick.
"Mr Barton, yon possess in the utmost
degree the practical temperament. You
lack the ideal totally.
"1 lack the ideall" muttered Barton,
aghast.
"My loiv sir, I only read your hand,
you un 1 r.s .ind. You have great mechan
ical ability; you would make a splendid
engineer. This is coupled with great in
genuity. You are exceedingly tenacious
ot an idea, when you have one, and you
could develop this mechanical gift into
something prodigious. You might be
a fortunate inventor. I see two lines dis
tinctly marked. One ends rather
abruptly. You have tried, or will try,
two professions the first will be a fail
ure ; the second will prove successful, and
later in life you will mak a. great hit.
ou will be rich. You are very rcccptiye :
that is, you receive strong impressions. I
should think you might, with proper op
portunity, acquire a fondness for art.
At this an irresistible burst of laughter
warned Mr. Sutherland that he was tread
ing on dangerous ground, He turned to
his next subject, and Mr. Barton re
treated sulkily to a corner, glaring venge
ance. He subsequently renounced art,
invented a patent ring for the bung-hole
of barrels, and made a million.
The faces grew serious as it was dis
covered that Mr. Sutherland was not a
respecter of persons, and read what he
found in the palm without flinching. It
was curious also to observe how rcany
traits seemed to be told in the faint flesh
lines.
"Now, Lisette dear, I think your turn
has come," called out Mrs. Van der Ven
ter. "You will be running off before I
have a chance to learn what faults lie be
neath all those virtues."
Miss Dewing hesitated. Attention had
been ' called to her, however, so she
thought it best to hold out her hand to
this far-sighted truth-teller. He looked
earnestly at her, as well he might. As
she leaned forward her beauty glowed in
the strong light. The attitude was at
once pliant and stately. The delicate
head poised on her fine youne shoulders
drooped a little. It was suddenly lifted
as Mr. Burlingame, with a slow step,
joined the party. She gave him a half
defiant, proud, slight smile.
To many who were present it was
known that Lisetto Dewing and Mr.
Burlingame had been engaged for a year,
and that the engagement had recently
been broken. Curious eyes had studied
them during the evening, but had dis
covered nothing startling In their de
meanor. Lisette, knowing Mr. Burlingame's
contempt for what he termed "charlatan
ism," credited his approach to a desire
to see her humbled or confused. She
bent with renewed attention toward Mr.
Sutherland. The latter studied her hand
silently. Its coral pink might have
temnted any man to hold it. and Mr.
Burlingame felt an angry flush cover his
l ace at the "lellow's impudence."
"l our nana indicates that you possess
tne purely ideal temperament," he began,
slowly. "I do not mean that you are an
unpractical dreamer. Your whole cast
of mind is ideal. That comes first, and
the practical takes it place in your life
under conditions imposed by this primary
state. At the same time the practical
does not perplex or annoy you. You may
be on excellent cook: at all events, vou
could be without altering your habit of
mina."
Everybody smiled. " You are ex
tremely methodical for a woman." Miss
Dewing herself smiled. " You have a
good portion of common sense ; but it is
chiefly exercised in dealing .with the
practical. You are governed, more than
tho average woman, by your intuitive
perceptions instead of your reasoning
lowers. In other words, your head is
ed by your heart." Miss Dewing invol
untarily nodded assent. " You are am
bitious in an artistic sense. Your artistic
perceptions are keen. You are very con
stant; your heart line controls your des
tiny absolutely. You will only love
once."
" Shall I live long?" questioned Miss
Dewing, anxiously.
" I do not find indication of a very
long life, I am sorry to say," returned the
seer, sympathetically. " But it will be a
happy one."
"thank you," smiled Lisette; "that
is more than I deserve "; and she moved
aside to make room for some one else.
" You have not done her justice,"
cried Mrs. Van der Venter, gayly.
"Hullo, Burlingame! wherefore that
solemn mein? Are you preparing for the
sacrifice? Come on, heroic victim; you
have puzzled a lot of us in your time.
Step forward, let us hear your miserable
sins given out," called a laughing fellow,
seizing the reluctant skeptic and dragging
him into the light.
Burlingame looked furious, and conse
quently ridiculous. He could have poi
soned his friend, or have handed him over
to an accomplished Thug with pagan re
joicing. "I'm a bad subject I must be excused
I don't care for this sort of thing, you
know. I am sure Mrs. Van der Venter
won't insist."
"Indeed, Mr. Burlingame, you must
not apjieal to me. We are all under a
bond to appear to-night. There is an
esoteric spell we cannot resist. Just close
your eyes and sit down by Mr. Suther
land. When you open them you will find
yourself upon the Awful Threshold of
the Great Unknown."
Burlingame had no choice, but he
crossed the Awful Threshold of the Great
Unknown with an ill grace.
Mr. Sutherland took mental note of the
moody eves and the impressive chin. He
gave his hand a moment's survey. "This
is what we call the artistic hand. It is
full of contradictory lines. You are not
proud of your early years. You have
men
either not needed to choose an occupa
tion, or else you have been drawn by a
diversity of gifts toward two or thee.
Half of your life will pass before you en
ter upon the path in which you will
achieve success. Your mind is active,
but you are more brilliant than thorough.
You have loved three times ; each time
deeply. And these experiences have had,
more than is common, profound influence
on the formation of your character. Your
impulses are generous; but you dissect
your own motives until tho original im
pulse is fairly worn out. You would be
a stronger man in every way were it not
for this custom of recasting allvour iudcr-
ments. This habit probably makes it
very difficult for you to confess a fault."
Here Mr. Burlingame raised his eyes to
those of Miss Dewing, with a look of en
treaty. She dropped her lids and stood
motionless.
"You have pride and ambition; backed
by your mental alertness, they will lead
to great successes I think in the field of
literature. What you have once pos
sessed you cling to with tenacious affec
tion old clothes, old books, a home, or
a heart. This might prove inconvenient
if you were a 'light of love,' but you are
very constant in fact, incapablo of in
constancy. You will marrv for love if you
marry at all. The line is vague. You
may never marry. You would be largely
led by your feelings if you were more in
genuous. Your sclf-inquisition torments
you into complex action, misleading to
yourself and others."
With a sigh of relief Burlingame with
drew his hand. A buzzing chatter be
gan, and he turned away, when Mr.
Sutherland, with the zeal of the specialist,
said :
"It has interested me greatly to note
the peculiarities of your hand and that of
the lady preceding you. If I were per
mitted to go into detail you would be as
tonished to see how curiously they com
plement each other. The corrective for
every morbid tendency iu your nature
lies in the indication of sanguine courage
in hers. The ideal and artistic percep
tions are most unusual. You are not re
lated in any way ! No ? strange 1 I
presume it is a mere chance ; but it has
been interesting to me indeed 1 Very
odd 1"
His words were overheard, and sud
denly Lisette's hand flashed like a flower
between them.
"You have overlooked one trait in
which we differ wholly," she whispered,
excitedly; "it is that of inflicting pain
upon himself and others, and that I
would not share with him for all the
world 1"
With an abrupt movement she passed
through the crowd and stood quivering
in the shadow of a curtained window,
"Dear Lisette," whispered Mrs. Van
aer Venter, who, observing her agitation.
had quietly joined her, "why did you
Detry yourseu f wny aid you let him see
that your composure could be ruffled?"
"Because I suffer, and am wretched. I
cannot bear this pain. He is so cold I I
must not meet him again." .
"He loves you, dear; I feel sure of it.
All will come right in time."
Grateful for tho gentlo sympathy,
though unconvinced, Lisette clasped her
friend's hand silently.
Meanwhile Burlingame had stalked
away from tho tete-a-tete and from the
"impertinent juggler" in rage. He felt
that he would burst into atoms if com
pelled to further restraint, so, entering
the conservatory, he stamped violently
up nnd down in its peaceful shades.
Sad and angry, Burlingame at length
east himself upon a settee whose rustic
k'nots gratefully tortured his back.
Presently he heard a soft rustle, and
turning around beheld Miss Dewing in
the doorway. Mrs. Van der Venter had
brought her there to rest. Sho needed
to be alone, and the pungent perfumes,
splashing waters, gleaming fuiry lumps,
offered a soothing calm.
She seated herself beneath a great
palm, and gazed in sorrowful meditation
at the pink shade of the nearest light.
A passionate voice at her side broke
the stillness and made her spring to her
feet.
"Are you happier for giving me that
cruel cut, Lisette?" exclaimed Burlin
game, with bitter reproach.
bhe looked at hun mournfully. "Hap
pier?" she echoed. "I am wretched."
"And so am 1, cried her lover.
'Lisette, I am broken-hearted, con
science-stricken, I never meant to doubt
your love, dear; you must understand
that. It was very hard for mo to feel
rnvselt noor and riowcrless to offer vou
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what I had always possessed. My mis
fortunes embittered me, and I was cruel.
If you cold only believe in me and par
don me! I hat man was wrong. 1 would
plead for pardon for a week, a month, a
year, if you would try to forgive and for
get." His impassioned face bent low
over Lisette's lovely head.
The happy stir in her heart seemed
like the life of spring. Her pulses
bounded, and a subtle thrill passed over
her. With a tender gesture of con
fidence and love she held out her hand,
and then playfully withdrawing it, ex
claimed: "You must read my answer
there."
"Dear love, "he whispered, tremblingly,
as he took it again, "I read" and he
held it to the rot-y light "a promise and
a pardon."
'And here" said Jjsctte, taking his
hand in hers, and laying the palm softly
against her flushed nnd happy check,
"read love and eternal faith. Harper
Bazar.
Sir William Turner, professor of anat
omy in the University of Edinburgh, de
clares that the propelling force of a
whale's tail is 14.r, horse-power. Mr.
Jveelv, instead of fooling with "ctheric
vapor," should procure a whale's tail and
attach it to his motor. Korristowii Her
ald.
It is a paradox that of all shoes a felt
shoe is least felt. Lneell Courier.
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CONGRESSMEN'S BANKER.
DUTY OP THE SERGEANT -AT-ARMS
OF THE HOUSE.
Keeping Salary Accounts fop Mem
bers Receiving Deposits How
Congressmen Draw Their Pay. .
The office of the Sergcantat-Arms is to
bo moved to the opposite corridor of tho
House chamber, and it will be amusing
next winter, says a Washington letter to
tho New York Sun, to watch absent
minded statesmen going, from force of
habit, to the former financial reservoir.
Congressmen are peculiar in their money
transactions. Few are accurate in busi
ness. In addition to thoughtless expen
ditures that drag many into debt, ono of
the most amusing features of their pro
cedure is the failure to keep track of the
cents in the checks they draw. For in
stance, one of the leaders left the last
Congress just twenty-three cents over
drawn. He is re-elected, and nobody
will suffer from this enormous overdraft.
It happened in a very simple and, among
Congressmen, in a very common manner.
The statesman had previously drawn a
draft for $23.23, and, in computing his
balance, drew on his memory for a $25
draft only.
The Sergeant-at-Arms is now the gen
eral banker for nearly all the members. A
few years ago many kept separate ac
counts in tho down-town banking insti
tutions, but now nearly all tho financial
transactions of members are conducted at
tho Capitol, and operations of exchange
and deposit, extending beyond mere sal
ary accounts, are permitted. There are a
cashier, teller, bookkeeper, and a huge
safe behind the wire screen protected
counter. Outside is a desk and a collec
tion of checks. A messenger brings al
most daily from the Treasury, in a satch
el, the amount of money considered nec
essary for the probable demands. Tho
bills thus drawn are always fresh and
crisp, and tho teller, a young man from
Tennessee, has established a reputation
for his ability to snap each bill as it leaves
his hand so that the crack of a whip does
not exceed the noise. This process not only
prevents bills from sticking together, but
it adds an exhilaration to the Congres
sional performance of drawing money.
Tho majority of Congressmen draw
their salaries entire during each month,
small sums at frequent intervals, with
lump amounts when rent and board bills
become due. Borne who have means dis
tinct from their official stipend allow their
salaries to accumulate for several months,
but not longer. The largest draft ever
drawn within recent recollection was by
ex-Congressman Fredericks of Iowa for
$11,000. He was seated at the close of
a Congress and drew his two years' salary,
ana also his mileage and stationery ac
counts. he smaller checks used to
emanate from James Bclford of Colorado,
poetically known as the "llcd-headed
Rooster of the Rockies." He would
draw checks for $2 several times each
day. General Georgo A. Sheridan, of
New York, the lecturer, drew a check for
$10,000 when he served the lost thirteen
hours of a Congress as a Representative
from Louisiana, but he paid ex-Senator
Jones of Florida and Detroit $7,500 as
counsel fees in the contest.
A few of the members draw their
month's salary in one check, and during
the last session the knowledge of this
habit aided in preventing two attempts
to forge the names of Congressmen Long,
of Massachusetts and Houk, of Tennessee.
In the former case the detection was eusy.
In the latter the swindler played a com
bination game and succeeded in securing
the cash, but not at the Capitol.
The stationery allowance of Congress
men of $125 annually is considered by
many a proper matter to commute into
cash. When new members como in,
their attention to constituents usually
involve the expenditure of their full
allowance for stationery, but when more
experienced the commutations are made
into jewelry, opera glasses, and all
imaginable articles, which ure purchased
by the Clerk under instructions, but in
the lust session, in case of a Congressman
defeated for relection, the drafts upon his
stationery account are very limited, and
upon his final March 4 he draws in cash
nearly the whole amount.
Mileage is allowed members at the rate
of twenty cents per mile each way.
This was established by the statute of
lttlifl, changed by the salary grab acts.
and restored by the repeal of the latter
law. It is a current error that Delegate
Voorhees of Washington Territory has
drawn the largest sum for mileage. The
largest amounts in recent vears wus
allowed ex-Delegate Oury of Arizona in
the Forty-eighth Congress, and his
successor, Mr. Beau. $1,000, exactly
representing 4,000 miles at forty cents a
mile one way. The committee allows the
mileago claims upon the written state.
meut of members signed, but tho truth
not attested. There has been no instance I
of a dispute of the correctness of these j
claims.
The lowest mileage in the Fiftieth I
Congress will probably be that of Itunuv
Lee, who can c harge about $;).60 for '
coining up from Alexandria, Va,. on a !
ferryboat, on whic h a round trip ticket
costs nitccn cents. Jn the r orty-ninth
Congress Mr. Barbour of Virginia re
ported the shortest trip, eight miles, and
drew $:.20. Mr. Compton of Maryland
was next, eighteen miles, or $7.20. Mr.
Voorhees of Washington Territory drew
$1,105 instead of the $2,500 which
several writers of Congressional fiction
have assumed to be his mileage. His
amount was exceeded by all the
California members and by two
Territorial delegates.
In one of the French schools there is a
natural magnet which is capable of lift
ing four times its own weight.
There are 050 electric light companies
now iu the United States, which furnish
61.000 electric lights.
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All bllli for yearly adrertiaementi elleeaed qpar.
terly. Temporary adTertlaameata mnst be para In
advance.
Job work euh oa taiiymt.
THE FOOn MAN'S SHEAF.
Be saw the wheat fields waiting
All golden in ta sun.
And strong and stalwart reapers
Went by him one by ene.
"O, could I reap in harvest!"
His heart made hlttor cry.
"I can do nothing, nothing,
So weak, alas, am I."
At eve a fainting traveler
Sank down beside his door;
A cup of cool, sweet water
To quench his thirst he bore. ,
And, when refreshed and strengthened,
The traveler went his way.
Upon the poor man's threshold
A golden wheat sheaf lay.
When cam the Lord of harvest,
He cried: " Oh, Master kind,
One sheaf I have to offer,
But that I did not bind:
I gave a cup of water
To one athirst, and he
Left at my door, in going,
This sheaf I otter Thee."
Then said the Master, softly:
" Well pleased with this am I:
One of my angels loft it
With thee as he passed by.
Thou mayst not join the reapers
Upon the harvest plain,
But he who helps a brother
Binds sheaves of richest grain."
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
The medical profession is like a box of
strawberries. There is always room at
the top for the best. Picayune.
Chicago mothers now frighten their
naughty children into obedience with
the following warning: "If you aro not
good, the Inter-State Commerce bill will
catch you. Chicago Newet.
Bagley "Yes, sir,the man who wasn't
moved by tears is a hard-hearted brute."
Tears are a wonderful power among us.
Bailey "Yes, I once knew a farmer who
moved his barn with his 6teers" Tid
Bits.
A Burlington reporter asked an ac
tress if she had ever suffered from stags
fright. She replied that she never had,
except once when crossing the Rocky
Mountains. The stage came within an
"ace of being tipped over a precipice.
Burlington Free lres.
"Now, Johnny," said the patient
teacher, "put away that pocket-knifo
and pay attention to what I am saying.
If you had an apple which you wished to
divide with your little sister, how much,
would you give her?" "I'd give her tho
core," said Johnny. Bazar.
An indiscreet young man once asked
a lady her age. "Wait while I count it,"
she replied: "I married at eighteen, my
husband was then thirty. Now he is
twice that then I must be thirty-six."
"Is it possible?" ejaculated the other,
aghast at this method of feminine compu
tation: "Well, I should never have ex
pected it." Troy Timet.
A Miner Captures Two EUc.
John Short, a long-legged miner who
can lcop like a kangaroo, lately ran down
a couple of six-pronged bull elk in the
deep snow on Big Creek. It was per
haps the most exciting and remarkable
chase of animals ever known in the
Northern region of the world. He chased
the big graminiverous racers over nine
miles on foot with a heavy Sharps rifle on
his shoulder and a big overcoat on his
arm. He chased them until sheer ex
haustion compelled them to halt and him
self to lie down panting, throbbing and
perspiring behind a juniper tree. After
a while he banged away at them, the
sights of his gun bobbing up and down
in obedience to the big throbs of his
pulse. Tho doomed creatures bowed
their royal horns to the snow, as the erring
shots flew fast from the smoky juniper,
and bleated for mercy. He killed them,
but it took all the cartridges in his belt
and mostly all the breath in his body.
"I tell yer," he said, "I were the most
unhappy Short on uirth fer a while. I
wor short o' breath." Long Creek (Or.)
.igle.
The Lot of a Russian Recruit.
A correspondent of the London Newt
writes from Odessa: I had occasion to
day to pass through a suburban park,
where a large number of young con
scripts were being put through the goose
step. The drill muster was a big man.
He thought nothing of stepping up to
the end of the line and dealing two or
three resounding blows on the faces of
eight or ten of the unfortunate squad.
At the next word of command the re
sult was still unsatisfactory, and the cor
poral expressed his displeasure by attack
ing a sickly, consumptive-looking Jewish
recruit, striking him with clenched
fist full in the ribs. The unfortunate lad
doubled up, and was dragged to the
rear, a utile beyond, where the corporal
of another squad was slowly and delib
erately dressing the line by savagely '
kickiug the legs and stamping his iron
shod heel on the toes of the poor re
cruits. The thud of the blows and kicks
and the groans and cries of the less hardy
of the unfortunate youths were horrible
to hear.
Hard on tho Horse.
"Look at that fellow trying to make
that horse pull that heavy load with a
dutch collar," ai,l a Market -street
grocer, in an angry tone. "A Dutch
collar?" repeated our reporter. "Yes;
it is more commonly called the breast
collar, and is, as you see, a broad band
connected with the traces, and supported
by a light belt over the neck. Such
collars are for driving and light work;
if the loud is too heavy the collar slips
tip on the ueck and chokes the horse.
For a big load there is nothing like the
neck collar. It gives the horse plenty of
purchase. "BhiladeU'hia CalL
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