THE FOREST REPUBLICAN
li publlihod Try WadDeadar, by
J. E. WENK.
Ottlot in Bmaarbaugh Co.'s Building
KLM STREET, TIONKSTA, Ft,
Term.
1.00 pr Yar.
No mbacTtptlnn received for shorter period
than INri months.
Oormionon- aollcltid from til part of the
mnntrf. No nolle will bt taken of tnotjmout
nwniunlcatlone.
Thr assessed value of the property of
tho South hiw increased over f 900,000,
001) in the present seven years, or at
tho rijta of about $125,000,000 each
year. S
just made by a blcyclo in England. A
man named llalc drove his machino 100
ilile in 0 hour, 40 minute and 47
seconds.
statistics show that the consumption
of sugar in tho last fifly years hag gone
tip from about fifteen to seventy pounds
cr head; of tea from 1 J to to 4 pounds
Jierhcad; of tobacco from .80 to 1.40
funds per head.
It is computed that tho death rato of
1ho world is sixty-seven a minute, and
tho birth rato seventy a minute, and this
seemingly light percentage of gain is
uflicicht to givt! a net increase cf popu
lation each year of almost 1,210,000
oul a,
' Itccent investigations have shown that
nearly a million pupils are enrolled in
Ihe public schools of tho Southern
States that tho amount of money cx-
pended annually for schools is fll,A4V
000, and that since 1N80 tho number of
public schools has been increased from
43,000 to 01,r.8:l.
A tufin has been selling patent churns
to Eastern farmers, taking in payment
notes payablo on demand, mnde ''not
transferable," and pledging himself not
. not to demand payment within a certain
long period. Then ho changed the not
to not?, and sold tho notes, and the far
mers were called upon to pay up.
A mining excitement has broken out
in the vicinity of tho Hot Springs of
Arkansas, owing to tho discoveries of
gold, silver aud lead there, lihd miners
from Mexico, Colorado and California
arc flocking to the locality by hundred.
Tho mineral district is about ono hun
dred miles in circumference, and every-
whoro shows evidence of volcanic action,'
A hgh grade of civilization develops
peculiarly frightful vices and crimes. In
uch a category is tho stealing of the
slead bodies of men for which a largo
ransom is likely to bo paid. Another is
tho horrible crimo of train wrecking, for
tho sake of pillage, in tho confusion of
tho disaster. Several attempts of this
sort have been made within a short time,
ounatoly without success.
If medals arc any indication of valor
and merit tho Bulgarians lead tho world.
No fewer thun 04,000 silver medals were
despatched to Sofia from Vienua a few
months ago, and within a short period an
additional order for 30,000 has been re
ceived, which the AustriiA mint is now
engaged in manufacturing. A foundry
near Duda-IVsth has also delivered
!IO,000 bron.o medals at Sofia. For a
small ari.ty Ihis is doing very well.
It appears from official statistics that
on the first of January, iu the present
year, one person in every thirty-four of
tho population of England and Welcs
was a pauper. On that day 823,215
persons, men, women and children, were
receiving relief under the present poor
law, 201, .508 being indoor and 020,517
outdoor paupers, while 100 received both
indoor and outdoor relief. Of this large
number more thau 70,000 were insane.
Au lows railroad engineer went mad
in his cab one night recently, aud, had
it not been for a quick-witted and cour
ageous fireman, would probably have
wreckod his train and killed many pas.
sengers. Occurrences of this nature
shows how much depends on a locomo
tive driver. Thousands of lives are
hourly dependent upon his judgment
and ability, and the history of railroad
accidents proves that tho engineer is
generally worthy of his trust.
Tho total fore-it area of tho United
States, accordiug to the chief of the
forestry division, is 480,010,000, and of
this 20, 000", 000 acres are in Florida.
But one State, Minnesota, has a greater
forest growth; but three, Arkansas, Cali
fornia and Oregon, are estimated to have
tho same acreage. The proportion of
forest to total area in Florida is 57.6 per
cent., and tho forest area held in farms
is 2,180,001 acres, or 10.9 per cent, of
the total forest area. Tho proportion of
forest iu farms to the total farm area is
CO. 3 per cent. The area of land in farms
unimproved, but not in forests, is
163,083 acres, or 5 per cent, of the total
farm area.
' Within the past forty years numerous
attempts havo been made to introduce
the English skylark into this country.
Largo numbers of the birds have been
brought over and liberated at various
points from Delaware to New England,
but, without exception, the birds have
disappeared at once, aud never been
heard of again, except occasionally, after
intervals of years, reports come of one
being heard in some part of the country.
Abroad they flourish from the south of
England to Scandinavia. "Why they die
iu this' country no one knows, borne
think that they do not die, but that the
country is so big that they scatter over
it as soon as landed, and are swallowed
iu its immensity, as it were.
Forest
VOL. XX, NO. 20,
THE CANARY.
A day in June, of light, of fragrance rare,
A bride brought to a home, a bride as fair
As angols be, as sometime women tnV
Loud sings the blithe canary in its cage,
A day In June again; what greater bliss
On earth may be, mayhap in heaven, than
this,
Falls faint on a babe's face a mothor's kiss.
Loud sings the blithe canary in Its cage.
A woman, fair and young and pale, at rwrt,
A dead babe laid on the dead mother's breast,
A preacher murmuring: "All is for the best"
, Loud sings the blith canary in its cage.
Chicago Tribune.
A GUILELESS ROGUE.
BT MTCY m.AKR.
I was traveling third-class from Rosen
heim to Munich; the only ono of my
companions in the coupe who in the least
interested me was an old man, wirv ami
vigorous-looking, in spito of the white
hair that lay over the collar of his coat,
and the testimony of seventy years at
least written on his furrowed forehead.
His dress, that of a well-to-do Bavarian
Iicasant, first attracted my attention;
tneebrccchcs, shiny and smooth from
long wear, and with delicate tracery in
colored silk needlework at the scams; a
leather-fronted waistcoat; a blue coat of
antiquated cut, with scollop shells orna
menting it instead of buttons; and what
most struck my eye, trained to noto and
copy such details iu my pictures, was
a leather belt about six inches wide,
covered thickly with the most skillful
embroidery, also in colored silks of mel
low and beautiful tints. The device was
very grotesque; harpy-liko creatures
smothered iu flowers w hich could have
grown only iu some dreamland garden.
Tho belt shut with nu antique silver
clasn, a serpeut catching its own tail in
its fangs, and was evidently an heirloom
in the family.
Conversationally, I found tho old man
rather dull, even lacking, it would ap
pear, as he rambled along a disjointed
narrative in which the name Erika re
curred at intervals, lie frequently ca
ressed his belt just below wherti his din
ner lay, mumbling half to himself:
"Erika will be the happier for that yes,
far happier. She little guesses what is
in it."
I was in doubt as to what the old fel
low alluded to; evidently some mysteri
ous booty in his belt, but as he contin
ued: "It was not wear and tear that
broke tho stitckes 1 asked Erika to mend
she had no suspicion of what she wns
sewing up safe inside," 1 decided it must
be the belt.
Certainly Erika, whoever she was,
mado a great mistake in letting this
weak-minded old man come alone to a
busy, crowded city like Munich.
My reflections were cut short by our
arrival at the huge station, where achut
teriug party of friends took mo into cus
tody at once. I saw tho old peasant
walk briskly away with the rest of the
stream, armed with a stout stick, and I
Btraightway forgot his existence for the
timo being.
When a not unattractive and still
young willow invites a man to go to the
cemetery with her tocontcmplatc her late
husband's grave, he is apt to be unprc-
briskly he accepts with pleasure, sounds
heartless and unfeeling, while a dismal
deportment and speech befitting tho oc
casion may bo construed into a reluc
tance at going.
Into such embarrassment my landlady,
Frau Mollhaupt, plunged mo soon after
my installation nt tho "Pension Mui
feld." While I assisted her to hang wreaths
of tin pausies, and numerous unkuowu
flowers done in black-and-white beads.
round tho railing which held down the
defunct Mollhaupt, it struck me that the
sorrowing relict was prepared to find con-
mjiauuu iwr iivr 10-B in unwonuy mo.
Tho tearful fentimcntal tenor of her con
versation causing mo great uneasiness, I
proposed, as inversion lor us both, a
stroll toward the rows of tall windows
behind which, according to Munich law.
the dead are exposed for two days the
coflin-lids lifted so that all the living
world may see.
There lay tho silent testimony of that
day's sad mortality; the rich surrounded
by a pomp of burning tapers, velvet
drapery and iragrant banks ol flowers.
Saddened by this spectacle, I was
turning away, when I saw lying iu the
plainest of pauper collins au old mau
whose face was very familiar. A mo
ment's reflection recalled the peasant in
the blue coat, my traveling companion
from Rosenheim. Poor old fellow, that
journey was but the preliminary to a
very much longer one which he hail
scarcely expected to take so soon. ilis
f garments were suspended on hooks above
lis head, conspicuous among them the
embroidered belt which I had noticed so
particularly A printed notice, with tho
words, "I'nknown Identification De
sited," was attached to the clothes.
Poor Eriku, I thought, her heart will
scarcely be made glad, as the old man
predicted 1 I wished I had listened more
attentively to the came of the villugo ho
had mentioned as his home. would
recognize it if I heard it again, but un
aided, my memory could not recall it.
Perhaps I, in all the city, was tho only
one who knew a word of the dead stran
ger's history. And what I knew was
barely more thau a word a womau's
name, Erika.
1 went to the Police Bureau, where
they told me the old man hud fallen dcud
in the street from a stroke of apoplexy.
No paper or letter had been found upon
him, and my inquiries had been mudo for
him. His clothes would be exposed for
a week, after which, if still unclaimed,
they would be sold.
Should this Bale take place, I resolved
to buy the belt, chiefly on accouut of its
artistic value, and also because I felt
curious to know if its half-imbecile
wearer had any reason fcr his mysterious
allusion to something stitched within it.
Returning to tho rather too friendly
shelter of the "Pension Maifeld," it was
borne in upon me that unless 1 wished to
be married off hand, without regard to
my own inclinations, I had better not
tarry longer. Fate intervened to spare
me vet a little while.
Lying on my table 1 found a telegram
summoning me at once to Schlos
Lerchenfeld, where my sister, Dorothy,
was visiting. Dorothy was ill, and ex
pressed a desire to see me. Ever sines
TIONESTA, PA.,
she was a tiny, bluc-rycd baby, I had
obeyed and Watted Upon m)r sister with
wilfingt dbg-like devotion, and there was
no reason to hesitate how. My destina
tion lay about four miles distant over the
same Rosenheim route which I had lately
followed to Munich. I found Dorothy
better, but much depressed by an illness
that was more mental than bodily.
"I'm fretting myself to death, Tom,
dear," sho said. "And you must help
me; you always do, you know."
Lying in a hammock in a sheltered
nook in the beautiful garden, my Sister
began to pour her tale of woe into my
ears. The sympathetic tender little
heart was breaking itself over the troubles
of somebody else ; n very humble person
age, the Frau Baronin's maid, who had
been arrested for theft.
"I'm sure the poor girl is innocent,"
Dolly declared; "but I must tell you the
whole story. Baron von Ulasow has or.
rather, had, until last Wednesday, when
the loss was discovered a very curious
St. Andrew's cross, old as the hills, I be
lieve, given to a remote ancestor for in
troducing a new shape of beer-mug, or
tor killing a t renchninn, or some heron
deed of that kind. At any rate it was
very valuable, for its antiquity, and for
its intrinsic worth, which was not at all
to be sneezed nt solid gold, beauti
fully wrought, with a splendid diamond,
pure as a dewdrop, set decnin the gold.
On Wednesday evening, when the
Buronin asked for it to wear to a dinner
party, lo and behold, it was not to bo
found I Suspicion fell at once on the
Baronin's maid, the only person who had
access to her mistress's jewel-case. Some
of the other servants sworo to having
seen the maid iu church with the cross
round her neck, half hidden in her lace
scarf an accusation which Bhe did not
deny."
"It looks very much as if they had ar
rested the right person," I replied.
"Now, Tom, you are not to think any
thing of the kind," answered my tyrant.
"Thai poor girl is innocent, I'm fully
convinced, and you must share my con
viction. She is so pretty , and modest,
and with such a winningmanner."
"The most dangerous kind," I mur
mured to myself.
"She pleaded her innocence with such
dignity and straightforward honesty that
she won my heart completely."
"So it appears.'
"Now, you fliuty-heartcd creature,
you must look into this case and get the
girl pardoned," continued my relentless
taskinistress, "I shall never know a mo
ment's pence or health again if she is
condemned to the two years, imprison
ment they talk about."
"Really, my dear Dolly, how can I
hope to find "
"No objections, if you please, sir.
You can surely get lawyers to find her
innocent. Poor thing, this Is not her
only trouble. The one relation she had
in the world, her old grandfather, of
whom sho was very fond, disappeared
from his home lately, and no trace of him
can be found. Erika that is tho girl's
name; it, means health, you know fears
he has come to some bad end, aud it looks
very likely. They come of a very re
spectable family in Distelberg, tho little
village yonder, of which you can Just see
the church-Bpire through tho trees, and
these two "
"Erika Distelberg that was the
name of the villngc the old fellow said ho
lived in very odd:" 1 exclaimed; "and
Erika, the girl's name."
"What old fellow!"
"Oh, nothing, nobody only I fancy
I can tell Erika something about her
grandfather.
"In that case yon must goto the prison
nt once; admission will be easy to get,and
the poor girl will be so glad to have your
news. You can tell me about it after
wards."
1 feared my communication would
scarcely cause joy if my conjectures were
right. As soon as it could be arranged.
I visited the prisoner, accompanied by
the housekeeper lrom the Scluoss. she
protosted her innocence in a way that, I
confess, won me over in spite of my bet
ter judgment. She bewailed her wrong
doing in wearing her mistress s property
to church that morning; but it was St.
Basil's Day, the patron saint of some ono
she loved very much, and she wished to
honor the festival by saying her prayers
with that beautitul cross in her hands. It
had been but a foolish fancy, perhaps,
i and she had been bitterly punished for it.
1 She had restored the cross safely to its
case afterwards, and had never seen it
since.
A new suspicion began to shape itself
iu my mind, and I turned the conversa
tion upon the subject of tho missing
grandfather. It was soon proved beyoud
a doubt that ho and the old man I had
met on the train were identical. I hated
to tell Eriku tho whole truth about him,
but even this was better than tho uncer
tainty which wore upon her as much us
tho disgrace of her present situation.
"My poor grandfather, my last faith
ful friend gone: But I'm thankful he
cannot see me here," she added. "I
never saw him iu better spirits than the
lust day he came to visit me at the
Schloss. He laughed like a little child
whenever he looked at me, and kept re
peating over aud over agaiu that he
would see me happy before he died, "-ad
that fortune was nearer than I supposed.
You see, sir," she said, with ablush, "I
was engaged to a forester on the Herr
Baron's estate iu Styria, and my poor old
grandfather was ulwuys fretting at the
thought that he would dio before we had
saved enough money to marry on. Ah
me! Basil must let me go now, since all
tho world believes me guilty of this
theft."
"Did your grandfather make this visit
after you had worn the cross at the
church, or before!" I asked.
"Oh, long after, sir. He saw me put
the cross 6afely away in its case. If he
were only here to swear to that!"
"Where was he when you put it
away ?"
"Ou the bulcony outside the Frau
Baronin's boudoir; I often let htm come
there when my miMress was away, as she
had given me permission. I might also
give him a cup of coffee sometimes.
That very morning I went down stairs to
get him some, leaving him in charge of
tho Frau Baronin's room while I went.
I managed all this very quietly, us I did
not like the other servants to know he
was there. They were often jealous of
what they called the Frau Baronin's par
tiality for me. I did not tell my master,
either, for fear suspicion might fall upon
my dear grandfather, who was honest as
the day is oug,''
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AVEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1G, 1887. $1.50 PEll ANNUM.
Ths day in this instance miiRt have
been very short, with its supply of hbfi
esty run low, for I now felt convinced
thnt the old man was tho thief. His
weak brain had reasoned that, by taking
this cross and selling it in the great
metropolis, he would insure his beloved
grandchild's happiness little guessing
the misery his act really Cos.t her. He
had hidden the jewel in his belt; whether
the belt was to be found, and, If so, with
its contents unmolested, was now my
duty to ascertain. I kept my own coun
sel, arranging that pressing business
should call me buck to Munich the next
dny.
Arrived in town, I went straight to the
Police Bureau to ask if trace could be .
found of tho old man's clothes, which
had been sold on the appointed day. A '
red-haired young man, with a stuttor, to
whom, as compensation for his physical
defects, a good memory had been granted,
arose, and with much difficulty informed
me that tho unknown man's entire outfit
had been bought by an old clothes dealer
named Schmier, in the Thai Strasse.
I repnired there at once and found the
breeches and leather waistcoat still on
sale, but the blue coat and the precious
belt were gone. Did Herr Schmier pos
sibly remember who had bought these
articles! . .
Yes, Herr Schmier recollected per
fectly; two young artists had bought the
garments In question "at a contemptible
price, sir, that would wring tears from a
stone."
"Do you happen to know the address
of these gentlemen!" I continued.
"Ono of them, Herr Bossel, has a stu
dio in Rosen Strasse, 811; I don't know
the other. But you can't touch us in any
way, sir; I came honestly by the clothes,
ami can prove it."
"Pray do not distress yourself, sir; I
hnvc not the remotest idea of calling
your integrity into question ; and I wish
you a very good morning."
1 went to Koscn Strasse ;m, and blun
dering up five flights of dark dirty stairs,
lound llerr Uossel busy at work with a
corkscrew, and not far enough advanced
iu his labors to be in a good-humor.
Yes.he had bought that blue coat with
the shells on it, of an old-clo' man, and
ho supposed he miuht buy as many coats
as he liked, without strange fellows in
truding upotn him to ask impertinent
questions,
I pacified the gentleman by telling
him as much of my Btory as I discreetly
could, omitting all allusions to the gold
cross.
He believed Collins had bought an em
broidered belt, but was not quite sure.
He might be in town still, and he might
be gone to the country. One never knew
what a fellow would bo up to this beast
ly hot wrather.
I sought out Mr. Collins, only to find
that he had sold the belt the previous
day to a comrade who wns to wear it at
a costume dance at tiiirniisch.
Weary, but still undaunted, I betook
myself per train and diligence to (iar
misch, and by a Macchinvcliun astute
ness I got nn invitation to the dance at
which Mr. Collins's friend was to appear.
At last my delighted eyes rested again
upon the old peasant's belt, round tho
sturdy form of a jolly young Irish tourist.
There was no mistaking those bright
winged harpies in tho embroidery and
tho curious old silver clasp. I could
imagine I saw the outline of the St. An
drew's cross faintly silhoticltiug itself
through the needlework; but this was,
of course, only exaggerated fancy.
How to get the belt into my possession
would be, I feared, the most ditlicult
Iiart of my task; but this turned out to
o a very simple matter. Over a bottle
of Markgrafler, we began to talk of the
belt, Collins's friend bewailing the fnet
that he had been weak enough to"spend
money ho couldn't spare, to have it for
the bull. Collins had nsked such a big
price, too. Now the dance was nearly
over, the tourist began to wish he had
not been so particular about the details
of his costume. In an offhand indiffer
ent manner, I said I often found such
knickknacks handy in my studio at
home, and if he chose to part with tho
belt, 1 didn't mind taking it for-the
price he paid Collins.
The tourist seized upon my offer with
delight ; and my feelings when, after the
ball, I retired to my room with the belt.
my lawful property, can be more easily
imagined than described.
How eagerly I tore open tho stitches
so neatly taken by the dutiful Erika!
The belt was wadded nud lined, till,
with the embroidery, it was about half
uii inch thick. 1 felt no hard substance
inside, nor did anything fall out when I
shook it. A horrible fear seized upon
me lest, after all, I was mistaken, lint
no, I was quite right in my suspicious.
Under the body of the fattest harpy, held
in place by a bit of wax, and well cov
ered by wadding, lay au antique gold
cross with a superb diamond sunk deep
at the junction of the bars. The crafty
old man had secured his booty well.
As I had never iu my life disobeyed a
command of Dorothy's, it did not seem
to me iu the least surprising that I was
able to execute this lust one of hers to
rescue Erika from prison. There were
great re joicings at Lerchenfeld, the wed
ding of the fair prisoner with her Iwloved
Basil among them. A purse had been
made up for her, and the prudent Basil
might be well satisfied with his bride's
suddenly acquired dowry.
My mission over, I returned to the
"Pension .Maifeld, "and in the autumn its
proprietress is going to marry me. I
could see no way out of such an arrange
ment; and she is really a nice little
woman, after all. Frank Ltnlie't.
The Latest Idea of Dudes.
The latest idea imported into dudc
dom is to wear two side chains instead of
one. Lust winter one chain, attached to
a bunch of keys curried iu tho trousers
Iiocket and fustened to the suspender
lutton above, was the "proper caper."
This year no dude will be complete with
out a chain on each side. To the second
one is attached a stout ring on which
are hung acoileetion of more or less use
ful articles. To be quite right these
should be of silver and handsome in de
sign. They include such conveniences
as a match safe, car or dog whistle, pen
knife, pencil, cigar cutter and in extreme
cases a miniature corkscrew. When an
undersized dude drags forth this remark
able bunch of trinkets the effect is apt to
be startling to the person unfamiliar
with the latest development of modern
civilization. Xttt Yqi CummtrcUil.
THE COAST OF AFRICA. !
QUEER 8IOHT3 -WITNESSED AT
CAPE TOWN AND IT8 VICINITY.
Racing Oat riches A Polyglot Tar-
llament-A Noble and Greasy
Native Hintf.
We were treated to an exhibition
Which was a novelty worth traveling
miles to see an ostrich tare writes a
correspondent of the Philadelphia Vc,
in a description of queer scenes on the
coast of Africa: Two little carts, the
frames of which were made of bamboo
and the wheels similar to those of a ve
locipede, weighing, all the gear iucludcd,
thirty-seven pounds, were brought forth,
and four largo ostriches, trained to the
business and harnessed abreast, were at
tached to each one. The race-course
was a flat piece of country about four
and a half miles in length; tho distance
to be traveled was four miles straight
away and return.
Two of the smallest specimens of
African humanity ever seen, less than
four feet in height and weighing ubout
seventy-two pounds a piece, Boschjcs
mcn, pure and simple, were selected as
charioteers, and nil was ready. I had
boen provided with a magnificent six
teen-1 ands h!gh English hunter, having
a record placing hiin among the very best
Saddle-horses of Cape Town, ana Was
quarter way toward the turn of the
course) pushing my fresh steed to do hi;'
best, when the feathered bipeds started,
and before I reached the turn the ostrich
chariots had passed me going and re
turning like a flash of lightning. I did
see them, and yet so quickly did they
vanish into distance that a pen-picture
valuable for its accuracy can not be
given. The time taken at the starting
point by several of the spectators was,
for tho four miles and rctuin, nearly
nineteen minutes; not very fast for
ostriches, so they taid, but too rapid for
English hunters, I know.
The following day we visited the
Houses of Parliament and listened to a
very hot debate on an (to Cape
Town) interesting subject "scab in
sheep." It was the most peculiar do
bating society ever heard. An English
speaking member would air his oratory
for a few minutes, then another member
would instantly rise to his feet and move
the atmosphere by a tremendous effort in
the Dutch language. A solid chunk of
English wisdom would be attacked by
shafts of fiery polyglot Boer language,
and as one of the House assured me but
a few of the members could understand
both English and Dutch, three only
speaking the two languages, how the
members came to an intelligent under
standing of the subject discussed in this
manner is a problem hard to solve.
In triumph, as it were, they conducted
us to the largest hut in the Tillage, the
residence of a stalwart native, whose de
portment and mien the absence of ap
parel did not prevent designating as the
ruling power. He bore himself us a king,
and failed to show by any outward dem
onstration that our visit was any thing
out of the common. His residence was a
hut, circular in form, about thirty feet
in diameter, made of clay to ubout nine
feet from the ground, then tapering to
the centre, covered with long grass and
supported by a pole over twenty feet high
placed in the middle of the hut, which
was bare of furniture except a few buf
falo robes. The surrounding homes
were of smaller dimensions, but all made
after the same style of architecture and
of similar material. To make a fuvoru
able impression upon his august person
age a new brass button that happened in
one of our pockets .was presented, and
the stern expression' of his countenanco
changed as if by magic, a smile illumin
ated Lis physiognomy and he chattered
in his gibberish like a monkey
rejoicing over the possession of
an apple. But his hilarity was short
lived. One of the American visitors wus
by science blessed with portable upper
teeth, and with the laudable intention of
providing the crowd with something to
talk about after we had lett their hos
pitable village, brought his hand care
lessly to his mouth, threw the teeth into
his open palm, and the hut was vacated
by the native throng, Chief included, iu
the twinkling of an eye. It took con
siderable gesticulating before the Chief
and his tribe ventured again m our pres
ence. Apparently they stood in revereu
tial awe of the gentleman with the mov
able ivories, and every timo afterward
when the crowd was too familiar the
tooth act was played with dispersing
enect.
Perceiving a splendid bullock tethered
close by, motions were made to convey
our wish to purchase, and the total ig
norance of the population in re. aid to
civilization was demonstrated by the fact
that the owner selected two silver l-.ng
lishhulf crowns in payment in preference
to a if.1 gold piece, the former bein
twenty per cent, of the latter.
Firearms were a great novelty to those
people, and when we presented the
Chief with a revolver and cartridges in
partial payment for assistance in provid
ing the vessel with fresh water, his hap
piuess was too deep for utterance, like
that of a boy with his first puirof boots.
Nothwithstauding the absence of this
kind of weapon, the tribe inut be terri
ble in warfure, as the bony parts of t licit
spears are embedded for several days
the trunk of a tree, looking something
like theush, the sap of which impregnate
the bone, and the slightest scratch oi
wound with u spear so pointed produces
death iu a few minutes. Doubting tin
Kroomau's power of understanding the
native explanation, we tried the experi
ment upon au ugly mongrel cur, and
doggie established the truth of above
statement.
The Art of Expression.
A New York photographer prints u
circular conlainint; the following uilvici
"When a lady sittiug for a picture would
compose her mouth to a serene churucler,
she should, just before entering the
room, suy 'bosom,' and keep the expres
sion into which the mouth subsides. If,
on the other hand, she wishes to assiimo
a distinguished and somewhat noble
bearing she should say 'brush,' the result
of which is infallible. If she wishes to
make her mouth look small she must say
'flip,' but if the mouth is already too
small and needs enlarging she must say
'cubbaire. It she wishes to look mourn
ful she must say 'kerchunk;' if resigned
she must forcibly ejaculate 's'eut
1'liiUdelphi Call.
household affairs.
Picfcilri Cdctimberft,
A contributor to the New York World
I says that the following is an excellent
recipe for picking cucumbers: Wash the
cucumocrs ciean, maKe a gooa urine ami
pour it scalding hot over them aud let
stand three hours. To one gallon of
vinegar add a piece of alum as large as a
hickory nut, let it get scalding hot, put
tho cucumbers in and let them remain
fifteen minutes, then take them out and
throw away the vinegar. Now take a
gallon of fresh vinegar and add red pep
pers cut up; ndd also cinnamon, cloves,
white mustard seed and horse radish, if
you like, with one half teacupful of
sugar and a little alum; let this also
come to a scald; put the pickles in, let
them scald, then seal up in glass jars.
Be particular to use good apple vinegar
and the pickles will keep as long as you
want them to. To heighten the green
color a harmless way is to line the kettle
in which the cucumbers arc sealed with
cabbage leaves and lay leaves over the
t0P.
Recipes.
Baked Eios. Break each into a cup,
and put the eggs on a buttered dish
strewn with cracker crumbs; cover with
sensoned crumbs, and bake till the crumbs
are brown.
Baked Cahbaoe. Fill a pudding-
dish with boiled, sliced, or minced cab
btiie. and pour over it two well-beaten
eggs added to milk enough to cover it ;
sprinkle with cracker-dust, and bake.
.Iumbi.es, One and a quarter pounds
of flour, one pound of sugar, three
Quarters of a pound of butter, five eggs.
a gill of milk, a teaspoonful of baking
powder. Bako one-half of this in small
tins in a quick oven. In the remainder
put a quarter of a pound oi currants anu
bake the same. Frost or not at pleasure
by leaving out the whites of one or two
eggs.
Farmers' Qikoerbhbad. One tea-
cupful of New Orleans molasses and two
. . , r. . l . t . , 1 : 1.
luoiespoouiuis oi wuiur uoiiiii uui. oui
into the water a teaspoonful ot soda and
turn into the molasses. Add a teaspoon
ful eachof irimrcr and salt, lake one-
half cup of brown sngar.ono beaten egg,
and when tho molasses is cool mix. Put
one teaspoonful of crenm-of-tortar into
enough flour to make quite stiff, mix and
bake in a hot oven.
Dried Apple Cake. Three cups of
tried apples, soaked over niuht and
chopped flue. Pour over them one cup
molnsses, one cup sugar, nan-cup putter
one teaspoonful of all kinds of spices,
and half a nutmeg. Set on stove and let
stew until apples are well done, stirring
frequently to prevent burning. Let cool
and ndd half a pint of buttermilk, two
teaspoonfuls soda, nnd tlower enough to
make it moderately stilt, liuke witu
steady tire, not too stiff.
N kFixe-Oiiainki) Cake. One cup
ful of butter, two cupfuls of sugar; beat
to a cream : five cirsrs beaten into that,one
or two nt a timo, until tho whole number
are added. Beat very thoroughly. 1 hen
add one cupful of milk, with a little
soda dissolved in it a quantity equal to
a medium-sized bean. Salt and flavor to
taste. Use, to mix this, about three cup
fuls of flour, according to the brand.
I'se lard in tins, nnd flour them thor
oughly. Bake in a moderate oven until
it rises ; then uso more heat.
Useful Hints.
Cornices for curtains, placed close to
the ceiling, heighten the effect of tho
roc m.
Wash rice thoroughly, boil in salted
water for twelve minutes, then drain off
the water and ullow it to steam for ten
minutes.
Mica iu stoves, cun be cleaned success
fully by washing the mica carefully with
vinegar and water, and wiping dry with a
loft cloth.
Silver ten or coffee pots, which are not
in use every day, should have a little
stick across the top under the cover, as
this will prevent mnstiness.
Now is the time to picklo gherkins,
walnuts, cucumbers, onions, red cab-
age, cauliflowers, artichokes, nastur
tiums aud bull-nose peppers.
Southern cooks, who know so well
how to cook green corn, leave on tho
inner husks, first stripping them down
to remove the silk, and then tieing them
in place again.
Pitchers of milk should never be al
lowed to stand after they arc" .taken from
the table, unless placed at once in a re
friuerutor, containing ouly milk or cream
uml sweet butter. Rancid butter will
communicate its odor and flavor to milk
or cream.
The rublier rings by the use of which
furit cms are made air tight, after being
used, become hard and unyielding, so
much so that fruit seldom keeps as well
when they tiro used the second time.
Though new ones cost but little, H is
not always convenient to get them.
Every one should know that the elas
ticity of the old ones can be restored,
and that they can be madu as good as
new by baking them a half-hour iu a mix
ture of ammonia and water two-thirds
ammonia and one-third water.
A Full of Manna in Turkey.
Mr. Cole, of Hit lis, a missionary of tho
American Board iu eastern Turkey, in
describing a journey from Harpoot to
Uitlis, says:
"We traveled for four days through a
region where hud uewly fallen a reinurk
uble deposit of beuvenly bread, as the
natives sometimes cull it inunna. Theru
were extensive forests of scrubby oaks,
ami most of the deposit was on the leaves.
Thousands of the poor feasants, men,
women ami children, were out upon the
plains gathering the sweet substance.
S line of them plungo into kettles of
boiling waler the newly cut brunches of
the oaks, which washes off tho deposit
until the water becomes so sweet us to re
mind the Yankee of a veritable sugaring
oil' iu the old tiranite State as he takes
sips of it. Other companies of natives
may be seeu vigorously beating with
sticks the branches, that from having
been spread on the ground have so dried
that the glistening crystals fall readily
upon the c-urpet spread to receive them.
'1 lie crystals are separated from the pieces
of leaves by a sieve, and then the manna
is pressed into cukes for use. The maunu
is in great demand among these Oriental
Christians. As we were traveling through
a rather dry region the article came in
I I ii y for our plain repasts.
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
On. fqnare, on Inch, on lnertlo. I 1
On. Square, one Inch, on. month SO
One Square, one Inch, three month.
Oi.e Sqnsre. one Inch, on year
Two Rquan a, one year. j
Quarter Column, one year ;
Half Colnmn, one year
On Column, on year ,w)
Legal advertisement ten eent pr lln h la
tertion. Marriage tnd dratb notice gratt.
All bill, for yearly adTertlaementa fXleld nnar
terly. Temporary idTerUaemenU mua h paid la
tdrane.
Job wori aeh on allTry.
PRAIRIE fMORIE3.
A wids o'er-arching summer sky;
Hea-drlfting grasses, rustling reeds, T
H'lwr young grouse to their mothers cryv
Anil locusts pipe from whistling weeds;
Broad meadows lying like lagoons
Of sunniest water, on whose swells
Float nodding blooms, to Mtling ball
Of bob-o'-linkums' wildest tunes.
Far west winds bringing odors fresh
From mountains 'rayed as monarchs art'
In royal robes of lee and nmv,
Where storms are bred in t7xier-jar;
Land of corn and wheat and kino,
Where plenty fills the hand of him '
Who tills the soil or prunes the vine.
Or digs in thy far canyons dim.
My western land! I lore thee yet.
In dreams I ride my horse agai, i
And breast the breezes blowing flee
From out the meadows cold and wet.
From fields of flowers blowing sweet.
And flinging perfume to tb breera.
The wild oats swirl along Uwylain;
I feel their dash against my knees,
Like rapid plash of running seas. (
I pass by islands dark and tall
With pointed poplars thick with leaver
The grass in rustling ripple ck-v
To left and right in emerald flow;"
And as I listen, riding slow,
Out breaks the wild-bird's jcctiwl call.
Oh, shining suiLs of boyhood's time! t
Oh, winds that from the mythic wesv
Sang calls to Eldorado's qnest!
Oh, swaying wild-bird's thrilling chime!
hen loud the city's clanging ftmx
Wr.ips in my soul, as docs a shroud,
I hear those song and sounds once more,
And dream of boyhood's wing -swung cloud.
Hamlin Garland, in Amerkan Ataaaziiur
HUM OR OF THE DAY.
The humbug has no wings at all; but
he gets there just the Bame.
The reason why truth is stranger than
fiction is that it is much rarer. Life.
The homo stretch fixing up a story
to tell your wito at 1 A. m. Washington
Critic.
The Emperor of China has a wife
named Kan Di. She must be very sweet.
i.iis.
If some of tho keys of a piano wer
utilized to lock it up, this world would
be a little brighter.
A Mr. Story is lecturing against the
doctrine of a future life. This Story evi
dently doseu't expect to be "continued
in our next. Tid-lSit.
Edward Hanlan, the oarsman, is Mid
to have been trained by his young wife,
lie is not the first bridegroom who has
had this experience. Life.
Betwixt the hen and an incen-
Diary you inquire
The dil'fereiieej Well, one set on eggs,
The other sets on fire.
Yonkert Gazette.
In Costa Rica there is not a single mil
linery store. Married men who want
tickets to Costa Rica should step up to
the office before the rush begins JJalti
more Herald.
NOT THAT KIND OF MATCH.
"Maybe you did make a good match,"
Mhe flung back in angry scorning;
"But not a inaU-h that will get up
And light the fire in the morning."
I iurpers Bazar.. .,
11LUIU n If IIUL uu lilt
Illinois girls do when they want to
nrouso the wrath of the neighborhood!
('auricr-Journal.
A correspondent wants us to tell him
"which is the proper attitude for s
fisherman, standing or sitting!" Neither,
innocent one; lying is the only position
iu which ho feds entirely at home.
fitit'emnaii.
TO RIB BOOTMAKER.
Every boot you e'er made for me pinches,
You destroy an existence once sweet;
It is tonsil to tie dying by inches,
But it's worse to be dying by feet!
Tid-Bits.
Mr. Pnletto "Will you allow me to
paint that picturesque old building back
of your house?" Mr. Waybuck "No,
I reckon I won't go to that expense; but
1 wouldn't mind a cont o' whitewash,
mister, if ye didn't tax me too much fcr
it. Tiibliitt.
Mummies in Trade.
Tho mummy trado was supported by
various c lusses of the community, foi
artists declurcd that mummy powdei
beaten up with oil, gave richer tones of
brown than any other substance, und
modern perfumers found means of pre
paring the perfumes and spiecs found in
side tho bodies, so us to make them ex
ceedingly attractive to the ladies. Paper
iiiunul'aciurers found that the wrappings
of the mummies could be converted into
coarse paper for the use of grocers, and
the cloth and rags wero sometimes useu
as clothing at least, so we are told by
a traveler of the twelfth century.
Is it not pitiful to think that all the
skill so lavishly expended by the sages
of ancient Egypt in rendering their bod
ies indestrueiible, should, cfter 3,000
years, end in this; And, in truth, the
mummies thus dealt with had less
reason to complain of their lot than the
multitude which wero broken up and
soW at so much per ton to fertilize the
fields of a far-distant and iusignilicaut
islet peopled by barbarians ! ttineteentK
Utiitiiry.
Curious Methods or Catching Otters.
A New York furrier described to a
Mail a ml h'.jri -rc. reporter the curious way
otters are caught by California cowboys:
"They put ou the high and very wide
legged hoots. They till the space be
tween the sides aud their legs with
gravel. Then they wade in the liver.
The moment an otter sees a man coming
toward his homo, he gets angry and
snaps at tliu intruder's legs. When once
he catches hold ho never opens his jaws
until ho is dead. After he once grips
the boot it is easy enough to kill him
without harming his fur."
"1 should think it would be danger
ous sometimes i"
"Sometimes it is," returned the mer
chant. In the lower Klamath country
no man has ever yet been brave enough
to tackle au otter from Lost River.which
runs through that rcigou. They are too
bin und too ferocious for any excepts
sheet-iron boot-log. which, besides being
inconvenient, would be rather cumber
some. Lost River otters, therefore, are
generally shot or die of old g."