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Chicago allow, its enterprise, accord Ing to the Atlanta Conttitntinn, by nmking pure lent lard out of genuine cottonseed oil, This year's wool clip in the United Ntutcs is otimRk-d nt $70,000,000 worth, and the number of sheep nt 40,000,000, an increase of 5,000,000 since ln-t year. An attempt is being made, to stiirt a co-operntivo milk association in every pnrish in Great Britain. The plnn is to dispense, with middlemen entirely. Far mers are to get moro for their milk than they now do, while consumers will pay less and receive n better article. Tho vicissitudes of an artist's reputa tion nro well illustrated by tho recent sale of one of Turner's great pictures, thnt of Antwerp. It was first' exhibited -in the British lioyal Academy in 1811:1, and was then valued at $1,000; 11 years 4r after it was sold for (t.QTS; in 18113 tho price it brought was $15,000; very lately it sold in London for $34,125. Annie tlrautncr, of Milwaukee, is not the only woman who uses a switch, but so far ns is known she is thu only woman in the country who attends a switch for a railroad company. 8ho is young and is said to possess tho beauty of an Kng lish didry maid and tho muscle of r. blacksmith. Sho looks out fur cloven switches nt tho switch yards and is d ways at her post. fiheridun Power, of Wappello, Mo., recently witnessed a novel and excilrq tattlo between two large turtles. Ku "-. f Is out shooting in the St. Francis "fciver bittom wh:n the strange noise drew him to tho river bank, lie watched the battle until tho larger turtle hud routed its antagonist ami then brought down the -victor with his fowling piece. Tho turtle was taken to town and found to weigh 1 20 pounds. The announcement has been made tha a paper collin has been invented aud put upon the market. A man may now build .his homo of paper, tut his dinner fioin paper plates, wipe his fuce with a paper ha idkcrchief, buy his wife a paper piano and go to his gravo in a paper collin. . The coffin may be paid for with a piece of paper and tho death published on , another piece. There are few tilings , more useful than paper. Vhiladelphii Jlecord. Rolics of Napoleon I. to the fore again! A Mr. John O. White, of New York city, hits in his possession, a knife, which ho cluims was once the property of Bona pnrte, and was lost during the disastrous retreat from ltussia in 1812. This knife weighs nearly a pound, nnd contains foul . blades and nineteen other implements, ' such as a button-hook, saw, gimlet or pait of seizors. Tho handles of this knife . are pearl with tho royal arms in gold, surmounted by tho large capital N. Colonel J. C. Andrews is known as "the Diamond King ' of Pan Francisco, and his store as "Diamond Palace." There are a number of diamonds set in the ceiling nnd the walls of the store, . and tho diamond docorations of the es tablishment are worth a fortune. He recently appeared in public wearing on bis scarf a pigeon blood ruby surrouudec1 With diamonds. On his left fiiigei sparkled a large solitaire blue diamond. From hiB watch chain dangled a Masonic ' mark, studded with largo diamonds, and on the left side of his vest, just peeping out from under tho lapel of hit . coat, was a massive gold medal, with fringe of diamonds running all nound it, London Life says that "a cutter of ninety rating will bo designed by Fife, Jr., to compete next year for tho Ameri ca's cup. liobert Duncan, of the Mur jorio, will sail her. The crew w ill rob ably consist, to n man, of the Murjorie's last year's crack hands; so, unlike the Thistle, no complaint on the score of in- different handling will be heard. The . samo designer will alsp build a smaller . cutter, of tho rating of forty, for the tame purpose. Shu will be owned by .Mr. Sweet, whose success with the Scotch ' twenty-ton, Clara (also ono of Fife's de- sign), in America last season, under Cap tain Barr, now of the Thistle, guarantees that the vessel will be a worthy competi tor. Barr will have charge of the yacht." The American Cultivator says, wurn ingly: ''Prudent men will hesitate be fore buying laud in Southern California at present inflated prices. Tho great land craze there already shows signs of subsiding. Land is now changing hands, with only ten percent, of thu purchase money paid down, aud balance on long terms of credit. This indicates that buy- Jaro not anxious to invest, and holders wiping to sell on any terms. Tho col lapse draws near. When oraugu lands sell at $00 to $1,000 per acre, and wheat lauds, fit for nothing but grain, sell at $150 to $'200 per acre, and raisin lands change owners at $250 to iflOO, it is high time for bona fide purchasers to look elsewhere and get better vulue for their money. Even the Culiforuiaus are willing to admit they never expected to see farming and orchard lands sell ut such fabulous prices. SEA AND SKY, Long ago, when the world was new, The sapphire sky and the ocean blue Wo Mod one summer day; Ami the sky still bends as the years go by, Anil the ocean leaps to the bending sky, For constant lovers are they. Hut when a mist arises between, The ocean, grown with jealousy preen, Ilisdouhls to the listener tells. He storms and frets, he raes and roars: In furious wrath he boats his shores, While his turbulent bosom swells. The sky, though dark with a moment's frown. Will tenderly from its height look down With a radiant smile divine. The green to blue with its magic skill 'Twill change, and the stormy ocean still, And the son of lovo will smile. Pause, thou, my heart, and the lesson read, When the darkness falls and with jealous sjieed, The mists of doubt arise Kn-t not! 'twill pass, and thou wilt know That the sun shines with a fervent glow, In love's unchanging skies. WE MET iJY CHANCE. If her flour had not become wcevily I should never have met her. A series of uecidents had been ap parently especially ai ranged to prevent such meeting, which had it occurred would probably have been a very com mon pluco eveut; it was tho non-occurrence, takeu in connection with the sub sequent occurrence, which made a rather singular affair of it. The lady to whom I have referred ns "her," is still to mo an "unknown quantity," for, ns though the series of accidents should bo completed, I have I lost the memorandum book in which, I some eighteen years ago, I very carefully j noted down cither her name, or that of , her huslinnd, the name of the vessel he: commanded, for he was a whaling I captain, aiid probably their home ad- J ilrcs; nnd said names have as completely j left my memory as has the memorandum book my possession. Therefore I can in i this story refer to tho lady only as "her"' or "she," unless indeed, excused bv tho poverty of our own language to meet such j an emergency, I burrow it title from another, and call her Madame; this sounds more respectful, nnd I will. There is n vague imprcssioii upon my 1 mind that tho schooner hailed from somewhere on Cape Cod, and that be tween the heel uud too of that boot- ! shaped peninsula was, aud I hope still is, I the home of my friend. Kaily in the morning of the Fourth of July, 1870, the little tug-gunboat Palos, ! under my command, on the thirteenth day of a voyage from liostou to China,; ran into IJorta Hay, a harbor of the island of Fayal. As soon after anchoring as i possible, I, tired uud sleepy from an all j night on deck, turned in for a nap, from which, an hour or so after, I was broken out by a messenger, who delivered a note ; nddiessed in a lady's handwriting thus: i "The Captain of the American inau-of- j war, Ilmta Buy.'" ! As nearly us I can remember tho con- I tents of this note were as follows: i Iieah Sin I hope yi u will pardon the litiei ty I am about to taka in asking of you a great lavor, in grunting which you will ren- I der most valuable nnd ever to bo appreciated j aid to a fellow-country woman in great ilis- tress. Cm and will you lend mea tloursieve ; J ho steward has most carelessly lost mine overtxiurd, and 1 cannot obtain such nil ar- j tide in Fuyal; and unless you can help mo I mint know what I shall do, for our llour is 1 so full of weevils that I cannot us it. Yours rospectlully, i Airs. , Am. whaling schooner . i Fortunately, I was the owner of a very ! good flour sieve, and us n mutter of. course and duty for in my instructions I was charged to "render all practicable assistance to American vessels in dist.ess" I seut it. After breakfast I went on deck to take my usual two miles constitu- : tional and my first smoke. 1 was never quite suro about having ' fairly accomplished the two miles of my "stint," for, as my piomemule was quite limited, 578 turns were required, aud I found considerable difficulty iu mechani-j cully counting correctly, at tho some , time thinkiuir of other nuitinr.- 1...1 1... ' tarrying 57S beans in my outside pocket and dropping one nt each terminus, I pre sume that my reckoning was often tolera bly close. While tramping th's morning, my at-: tentiou was so takeu up by thu scenery, which included mountains, a pretty white city, lishing and bumhouts, that I ' iui mo run 01 my progress altogether. Nuturully I sought out tho schooner from which the note had come; there was uo diiliciilt,, in identifying her; the four or live whale boats hanging at her davits and astern proclaimed h r vocation, and her nationality was so plainly marked by . a large and new American ensign, which in honor of Independence Day or our ur- j rival was flouting from her peak. Another point made identification very easy and sure; excepting our-clvcs and her the harbor was bare of vessels. Al-I though ut times quite a number of tho! pliiiii pinlilings, as the whaling schoon ers which go out but for a single seasuu'i ora are cancel, maKO 01 tins immoral resort for the procurement of water, fruit and provisions, and to enjoy a "gam," as is termed in whaler parlance a chatty ship visit. ' j As was the case with my frieud, these ! schooners generally anchor well outride, j for many of their crew, among whom I there is always a large proportion of j brand new sailors, never before used, are ' apt to fancy that they need refreshments j ether than those which the captain will j pricurc, and they ure very likely, if at j all handy to the wharves, to give them- j selves liberty and obtain them. The schooner was a tine-looking craft, and it i struck me that it would not be a bud plan j lor me to go ou Doura ot her, call on the Madame, uud offer any further ussistunco in my p wer. 'I his I proceeded to do, aud iu a short row my gig brought me anil a bundle of latest papers alongside of her. I was received by the captain and ushered into the cabin, where I was present) d to his wile, my still unknown correspondent. They were young people, evidently glad to see me as I was to see them, uud we pussed a very plea.-aul two hours. As is the custom when one goes visit ing ou board someone elsu's vessel, and too great a straiu upon truthfulness is not involved (net this cuc,l coin- plimonted the captain on the remarkably clean and tidy appearance of his vessel, and tho Madame on the cosy, bright and homelike cabin, in every part of which were evidences of womanly taste. They were not to be outdone in polite ness nnd assured me that the mntc, who had curried the note to mo that morning, had returned charmed with my vessel, which he reported to be in most beautiful order, or as he expressed it: "Slick as a parlor." Of this I had some doubts; it was my impression that while that whale boat wus alongside we were very busy hoisting ashes, holystoning decks,scrub bing paint work and in other ways mak ing ready for port. I did not, however, correct him ; modest as a man may be, he is not bound to reject compliments, even if not wholly deserved. Mo doubt the mate was a Capo Coddcr also, and a very hospitable, cheery, nor'woster sort of a man, and they probably had a most delightful "gam," during which cx chnnges of souvenirs, scrimshawed whale teeth, tooth ivory pie crust crimpers,etc, on the one side, versus navy plug tobac co on the other, added to the enjoy ment. The Madame accepted my compliment ns to the cleanliness, but to my surprise did not seem to altogether approve of it. She said that, for her part, much as she loved cleanliness, her happiest times were when the vessel was in a most filthy con dition. Seeing that I was puzzled, she explained that she referred to "cutting in" days, w hich on every occasion meana goodly sum of money ahead and a short ening of tho cruise. At such times the captured whale is secured alongside by slings ut each end, so arranged that the uouy can revolve. Tho hook of a masthead purchase is inserted near the head, on each side of it a spiral trnn verse cut is made, and the strip of blub ber, flesh, etc., is hoisted; when high enough, a second tackle hook is inserted, the hoisted strip cut oft just above the last hook, and the great slice, perhaps 30 feet or more by 3 feet, is lowered to the deck, and there reduced to dimensions suited to the try-pot. During this pro cess the vessel naturally becomes very bloody nnd grensy, with patches of soot profusely sprinkled. After explaining to me, the Madame asked: "Did you ever see a whale cut in?" Fortunately I had. She asked me when and where, and this is the story I told her: "It was in March, 1805, that the I'. 8. 8. Connecticut, of which I was executive officer, while making u cruise through the West Indies, went into Bridgetown Harbor, Barbadoes. We passed, anchored in the outer harbor, nn Americun whaling schooner, alongside of which a dead whale was secured, and the crew wns busy 'cutting in.' As soon as we could get a boat a party of us started for the schooner to witness the work. We went on board, and your description of the state of affairs hardly does justice; it was about the hardest-looking place we ever got into. The mate told me that the day before, tho captain nnd nearly all hands being on shore, this whale blew. not more than a mile outside, nnd that lowering away he, with the cook, cabin boy and a couple of hands, had gone out nnd captured him." The Madame listened very attentively, and seemed greatly interested. She asked me: "Were there any ladies on board of that schooner (" "Not that I know of," was the answer. "I did get a glimpse of a petticoat just vanishing through the cabin door, as I went over the side, but the mate told me that it was a washwoman come for the old man's wash. This Madame seemed to consider a very good joke, and indulged iu a laugh more hearty and merry than I could see that the joko warranted. My surprise can be better imagined than described, when, recovering from her laughter, she remarked: "That he had no right to say and ho never told mo that he did ; I did tell him not to let you into the cabin, nor say a word about our being ou board." "Who and what do you mean?" I interrupted, "Who was 'our'? " Then she told me that she herself and her sister, a young lady, were onboard of that steamer, wutchod our cutter com ing toward them, admired our uniforms, but when we rouuded to alongside, scud for tho cabin, through, the window blinds of which they saw us all the time, vexed enough, thut.arrnyed in their "cutting in" clothes, they were not in condition to receive us. And it wus the very schooner which, 1 hud boarded in Bar bados, in which, five years after at Fuyul, this story, for which" I was indebted to weevils, was told me. The adventure supplied us with quite a stock of conversation. It did seem so strange that we had so nearly met be fore, prevented only by chance, and that ufter all this time, 11 flour sieve, or rather the need of one, had Iwought us together. Our conveisatiou drifted intoother chan nels and we found ourselves comparing notes as to our nautical experiences. She told me of the hardest time she had c.cr experienced, a tale of a voyage during i : 1. :.. .. 1 . 1 1- D . 1 - " w men, wnu utmost no hick in catcniug whales, they did catch fever on thu Afiica coast, and had dismal times and a gloomy voyage. I in turn got up us pathetic a story us facts gad imagination would furnish, of my dreary life on board of a monitor, dilating on the foul air, darkness, damp ness and other discomforts attendant upon being boxed up under water in an iron box. Sho was truly and gratifyingly sorry for me; she had "seen ono of those hor rid vessels, and all of the wha'cs iu the Atlantic would not tempt her to live on board of one." I asked her when aud where she hud seeu one, aud if she remembered its name. "Yes, it was the Nantucket. She ran into I'rovincetown Harbor one day In the winter of ls)U3, aud lay out a gulu there. I was visiting friends in I'rovincetown, and when thu blow was over we made up a party and went off to her in a cat boat. We meant to have gone on board, but it was too rugged and we had to give it up." "Do vou remember, " I asked, "that when your boat first inado an attempt to ) go alongside, un olhcer standing ou the turri t hailed you and warned you not to attempt it (" It was her turn now to be surprised. She did "remember very well that a man with a speaking trumpet did warn us off, and seemed quite excited, bid he was c overed up with oiltkins and I don't know whether he was an officer or not." "What made you think he was ex cited?" "Why, at first he was nil tight, only when our captain told him thnt he guessed he knew his own business, and could handle thnt boat without any of his help, lie got very mad and swore nt him awfully." "What d'id ho say?" "Why, he called our captain a blanked lubber, and" "And so I still think he was," I broke in, "the shnrp edges of n monitor would be very apt to cut down and sink nny boat boarding iu a seaway. I wns thu man who hailed you; I don't remember swearing, but if your copthin sa d what you say, and I heard it, I have no doubt that I did so. I can only say now that 1 regret very much that I did not then know that you were one of the party, for I certainly would havo managed to get you on boarl, and not have left it for weevils to introduce us." Two hours after the sieve rame back, the schooner sailed, nnd I have never (that I know of) met them since. Forett anil Stream. WISE WORDS. The full of a leaf is a whisper to the living. Plain words make the most ornamental sentences. Judge charitably and act kindly to each other. Truth Ls a rock large enough for all to stund upon. A wise man is not inquisitive about things impertinent. Speak well of your frieud; of your enemy say nothing. Companions are to be avoided that are good for nothing; those to be sought and frequented thnt excel in some quality or other. The little I have seen of the world and know of tho history of mankind teaches me to look upon the errors of others iu sorrow, not in anger. With books, as with rninpuni.ins, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid than which to choose; for good books are as scarce as good companions. j It was a very proper answer to him 1 who asked why any man should be de lighted with beauty, that it was a ques j tion that none but a blind man could j ask. I' Kind words procure their own image. I They soothe ami quiet and comfort the nearer. 1 hey shame hun out or Ins sour, morose, unki.id feelings. We have nevei yet begun to use kind words iu such abundance ns they ought to be used. Grief or misfortune seems to be indis pensable to the development of intelli gence, energy and virtue. The proofs to which the people are submitted, as with individuals, are ncce-sury to draw them ' from their lethargy and disclose theii character. ltlch Itedskins. A visitor to the Osage reservation (in the Indian Territory), if ho has a mind to study the human race under varying conditions, finds much of interest. The Osage Indians arc about the only exumplu now left in the l uited State of a real aristocracy. They do not depend upon I Government rations, ns do the Chcyennes and others, at all, but have enough ns their own undisputed property to 'make them the wealthiest community iu tho country. Besides the land of t lie reser vation, which belongs to them by a title hard to assail, they have about $700:), 000 Dealing 3 per cent, interest 111 tho hands I of the Government. They are paid j about $250,000 a year in 'cadi. Tho j entire tribe numbers only 1,000, so that they are acteally the richest body of peo ple we have. The Usages have all the attributes of an aristocracy. They own the laud, do absolutely no work, have plenty of money, know nothing of barter unci sale, and therefore not much of thu meanness which characterizes all commercial clashes. They envy nobody, and ure satisfied with themselves nn 1 their customs. With the virtues of aristocracy they have its vices. With generosity they have shift lesnesi and laziness to perfection. Though magnificent pa-turcs lie before them for miles, few of them take thu trouble to own cuttle, the majority pio ferring to to buy beef already slaughtered und cut up from the traders. They are not even hunters and fishers. Their lives are spent iu lying around under tents und shanties, eating to repletion, und filling their blood with impurities which they do not take exercise enough to get rid of. Bad habits have brought on bron chial and scrofulous diseases, which are helping to still further reduce their num bers. They have no faith in whito physicians, and their own medicine men nave as much influence us u hundred years ago. uiumh City Timm. I Superstitions About Spiders. I Don't kill spiders! You will certainly have bad luck if you do. At least so says 1 the ancient distich : "Ho that will live und thrive, Must ljt a spider run alive.' Spiders brought good luck to Robert Bruce, of Scotland, by covering the mouth of a cave witli cobwebs when he was hiding in it from his enemies. Spiders ure said to accumulate iu great numbers when there is soon to bu a death. They must not then be dis turbed or driven away. There is u spider on the Islu of Shoals which disjoints itself when pursued, and throws uwuy ull its members. History does not re, ord whether it goes uttei them aud fits them on again or not. lhtroit Fne i're. .Monkeys us Opium Haters. Dr. Jammers, in u memoir sent to the Academic ties Sciences, states that mon keys, unlike other animals, unless it is the human animal, readily acquire the ! habit of taking morphia. When monkeys livu with opium smokers, us they do in Eastern countries, where the habit is j more prevalent than elsewhere, aud be- come aioustoiiied to thu uiedicuted at mosphere, they acquire a tute for tho pipe. One particular monkey, it is said, I would wait for hi master to lav down i his pipe, and would then tuke it up uud I smoke what remained. If not allowed I to do so for several days it would fall ! into a state of depression aud inactivity, j which would disappear as soon as it was j allowed to ' hit the pipe." I'.il Mu't flan tit. SURVIVED THEIR WOUSDS. REMARKABLE RECOVERY OF MEN NEARLY 8H0T TO DEATH. A Terribly Wounded Soldier Marrlrn His Nurse. A Soldier Saves Hia f'CJT. "If the medical corps of the array should give their reminiscence! they could add a great many interesting stor ies to the incidents of the war which make inch popular reading to-day," said an c.x-siriny surgeon now connected with one of the departments in Washington to a New York Hun correspondent. "In 103 I wns the acting assistant surgeon of the Kighteeuth Pennsylvania Cavalry. We crossed the Potomac at liaccoon Fork, nnd marched to Frederick, where the command was changed. Gen eral Hooker succeeding General Meade at the head of the division, aud General Stahl was made commandant of cavalry, in plare of General Pleasanton. "On Sunday, July 2, the first brigade was engaged in a small fight nt Littles town, and following thnt we had another little fluiry nt Bed Mills. Then came the battle of Gettysburg. I was detailed to take charge of the hospital at Hanover, wh ch was a few miles away from the field, and two or three days after the fight a poor lellow was brought in who had been found in ts wheat field, shot all to pieces He had lain in the broiling sun for three days without food or shelter of any kind, nnd he was in a horrible condi tion. His case seemed a hopeless ono from the moment we laid eyes upon him, but everything wus done to ease his dying hours, and to make him comfortable ns he passed out of the world. Under the direction of the supervising surgoon, a large dose of morphine was administered in order that he might pass away with as little consciousness of pain as po-sible. But forty-eight hours afterward he still lived, nnd did not seem nt all inclined to quit. "Just then a young lady from Han over, who had been helping uround the hospital, asked if there was nny special cases of which she might take charge. She was told that there were, nnd was assigned to look after this poor fellow. She did her work so well that shortly af ter he was able to be removed from the Held hospital to a better one, w here he continued to improve, and, shortly after, entirely recovered. This man's name was McKw '11, uud he had been a private in a Missouri regiment. When du charged as convalescent he nt once mar ried the young lady who hud done so much toward saving his life, and soon afterward returned to his command, where lie rapidly rose in rank, nnd was finally mustered out nsa Captain." "There wns another interesting case which enmo under my observation. At the battle of Ballard's Dam, seven mile below Falmouth, Lieutenant W. C. Weeks, of the Fifth Michigan Cavalry, received a shot wound in the foot which entirely shattered all the interior bones. He was taken to the rear and uttended by Dr. Wooster, of the First Michigan Cav alry, und Dr. Wood, of the Fifth New Y'ork. These surgeons at once announced that his entire foot would huve to be amputated, but Weeks declined to allow the operation to be performed until he had seen the surgeon of his own regiment, Dr. Arthur K. St. Clair, in whom he had the utmost confidence. As soon us it could be done St. Clair exam ined the foot and dweided that a portion of it could I c saved. It wns late at night, but nn improvised surgeon's table was prepared and a number of tallow dips were lighted in order that the operation might be properly performed. Then Dr. St. Clair dissected out ull the anterior bones of the foot and brought down the heel bone, so that it was directly under instead of behind thu extremity of the leg. From this bone he removed th articulating surface, and, bringing a flap of flesh around, finished what is known as the Pirogoff operation. "This was the first and only time thnt this operation was performed during the war. The fluid hospital was not a very convenient place for a man to recovei from such a wound ns this had been, and Weeks was sent on to Washington, where he had quarters in the Lospitul on Armory square. Here the attending surgeons ex amined him nnd decided that, inasmuch us thero was great danger of blood poisoning, nnd little hope of sav ing even a portion of the foot, he must submit to nn amputation of thu lower portion of his leg. Weeks absolutely re. fused to have this done. He said that Dr. St. ( lair had told him that wiib proper enre he might recover, und be be lieved iu St. Clair more thun any oth surgeon in the army. This somewhu. dlsg.isted the doctors, who bad little time for sympathy in those days, and Weeks was al lo wed to remain with very lit tle attention. He laid therefor some week growing constantly worse and utmost neglected, until one day Senator .acn Ch miller visited the hospital looking for Michigan men. "Weeks heard his voice as he passed through the wards, aud shouted to Chandler that he wus a Mich'gan man, and that il he d d not receive uttcntiou lie would surely die. Chandler responded iu his characteristic style: " 'l'y George, if there is unycuretliat a Michigan man wants he shall have it,' and ho was as good as his word. "I nder the patronage of the Senator, Weeks lingered along for some time, suffering greatly from blood poisoning aud from malarial complications, but finally he recovered and was discharged. When last heard from he was living iu Aliegau and wore an artilii ial foot, upon which he was able to get around very nicely." Child-Truinlnsr. How to combine thinness and love w ith w isdom and impartiality is the (picst'ioti of ijtiestions iu child-training. A De troit bachelor lias settled it to hit satis faction, und the t'rte give to the world the cardinal points in his great scheme : 1. When you consent, consent cheer fully. 2. Whcu you icfuse, refuse finally. 3. 1 f lea commend. 1. Nc er scold. 5. Beware of making an issue with your child, but when uu issue is forced can y it out. It is with children as wiih men, few of whotu.suys Goelhe, are opea lo conviction, but the ma jority of whom uie 1. in n to persuasion HOUSEHOLD MATfKKS. Making Waffles. Waffles should I'o made quickly and beaten thoroughly. Alwav odd the whites of the eggs just before baking, Butter is much nicer than lard for short ening. Never use sugar in waffle batter, as it tends to make them heavy nnd tough. Wattle butter should be very thin. To make good waffles, take one pint of butteimilk, one tcnspoonful of soda, ono tnblespoonful of melted butter, one ten cup of flour, the yolks of four eggs nnd a small pinch Of salt; beat the whites separately to a stiff froth, and add them the last thing. Have the waffle tins well greased and very hot, pour in the butter aud bake brown. When taken up spread with butter and keep warm. L)t trait Tribune. Savory Mince. This is a nice way to use up cold roust beef. Mince as much as is required very finely till it almost forms .1 paste, then Cover it up and set it aside till wanted. Chop, very small, two medium onions, with a little thyme, parsley and tarragon, nnd put them into a saucepan witli nn ounce of butler nud a teaspoonfu! of flour. Stir them about over a gentle (ire until purtiully cooked und nicely browned; add a cupful of stock, the minced meat, n dessertspoonful of good catsup mushroom, walnut, or tomato and a seasoning of salt and pepper. Sim mer gently for half an hour, stirring now nnd then ; then turn the mince on to a hot dish, garnish with croutons, and serve hot. To prepare the croutons take slices of stale bread, cut a quarter of nn inch thick, stamp them into fancy shupes, stars, diamonds, rounds, or squares; fry them in boiling butter, or dripping, n rich golden brown, then drain them cure fully and serve as directed. lloast Turkey. The stuffing for this maybe prepared the day before and the bird made ready, but I do not recommend it to be stuffed until near the time for roasting it, says n writer in nu exchange. For the stuffing take eight ounces of brend crumbs (no crust), three ounces of bntterchopped with it, a teaspoonfiil ot stilt, otie-ipinrier teaspoonfiil of pepper, a small onion, boiled and chopped very tine, two tab'.cspoonfuls of parsley, free from Btalks, and chopped as tine as possi ble, and a suspicion of grated nutmeg. Mix all together with two eggs. Stuff thu body and crop, but if you would have your stuffing rich and not like n steamy puddiug;do not fill the body full; leave plenty of room for swelling. Muny prefer a little chopped pork iu place of the butter, nnd if you like a crumbly dressing you will not need the eggs. When the bird is stuffed, sew up the slit turu the skin of the neck over the back, uud fasten it with a tiny skewer, then truss it, flour it all over, und bake it in a steady oven. A largo turkey will take quite four hours; a medium-sized one three. Baste it frequently and t irn it about so that all sides may be brown alike. The giblets should be put on to stew slowly for four hours the day before they nre needed, witli n quart of water, half it teasp jonful of salt, and a pinch of pep per. When the broth is reduced 10 little over a pint striin it, keeping the gizzaid and liver. The former must be chopped fine and the latter mashed. When the turkey is done put it 0:1 a hot philter. Set the dripping pan on the fire put the chopped giblets into it, with n dessert spoonful of flour, nnd stir them nil around the pan, letting the llour brown. Then poor it into the liipior fiom the giblets, uud, if more gravy is required, a little s'ock or water. S'.ir it till ull the grtivy clinging around the pan is removed, and then tusto to ascertain if seasoned uf ficiently. I'seful Hints. Never use for cuke milk that lias been boiled. Matches should always be kept in a stone or earthen jar, or in tin. Ash or light wood floors nre brightened by w iping over with skimmed milk in stead of water. Egg shells will clean vinegar bottles 01 cruets us well as shot, und possess the merit of always being 011 hand in every kitchen. Do not allow the spice box" to become disorderly. Have each division carefully labelled and permit no mixing of the contents. Tho kitchen window is the best of ull windows for plants. They receive the "ded moisture from the steam of kct 1. ud boilers. K 'icute crac kers take two pints of flout, Mut of sweet cream, und the yolks . gus. l!o!l out thin, and Luke like-. other biscuit. A good way to distinguish mushrooms is to sprinkle suit on the spongy or under side. If it turns yellow the specimen is poisonous; if black; it is wholesome. To keep plants in I lie cellar tuke them up and spread loosely on shelves ur hang to the joiM overhead. Thu temperature of the cellar should not be over forty or fifty degrees. Choose a time when the ground is dry for taking up plants. The plant is inoie dormant in dry than wet weather, uud less likely to be injured by removal from its native soil. Honey sometimes has 1111 onion flavor, from the bees gathering from fields of onion seeds. II allowed to set a few weeks the unpleasant lluvur will pass off. A good liquid glue may be made in this way: i'ut one ounce of borax into a pint of boiling water, udd two ounce of shel a ', uud boil until the shellac is diss ih ed, then bottle for use. All tins should be washed quickly alter Using in clean soup suds, scalded aud wiped immediately, und they will not nee I scouring. Frequent scorning, even with whiting, wears tlicni out. Why a Hotel Clerk is Happy. "Oh. why are you so happy, And mi extremely gay.' ' limulied a umn of a hotel clerk Who laughed the livelong day. "I'm happy and coiiU-uted, Fur how could 1 feel blue VViitHi weather fieuils havu stopsi to ask. 1 i 11 uoc enougu 101 vou: Hotel UaiL Opportunity. This I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream: There spread a cloud of dust along a plain; And underneath the cloud, or in it, raged A furious battle, and men yelled, and swords Shocked upon swords and shield A prince s banner Wavered, then staggered backward, hemmed by foes. A craven hung along the battle's edge, And thought: " Had I a sword of keener steel That blue blade that the King's son bears but this; Blunt thing!" he snapt and flung it from his hand, And lowering crept away and left the Held. Then came the King's son, wounded, soro bestead. And weaponless, and saw the broken sword. Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden sand, And ran and snatched it, and with battle shout Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down, Aud saved a great cause that heroic day. a. Hill. . HUMOR OF THE DAY. An Illinois farmer has mado n cheese; in the shape of a man. It is said to look like a thing of life and very likely it is. Statesman, There are very few brass bands in a military parade that can play as many airs as the drum-major puts on. Vie and Leather lieporter. Two Michigan giants ran awny and got married recently, and yet no news paper has referred to it as a case of elope ment in high Wic.Tid-llilt. WHAT HE WANTS. , Oh. I want not the earth, iina't think me so rash. I only want one little corner On cash. Tilt-Bits. Bnw onions arc now eaten to cure in solunia. Where it fails to enre husband or wife it will ut least keep tho other awake for company, nud that's some consolation. lhtroit Free Presa. TMK MAX WHO LAUors. I love the man who knows enough To hold his tongue, and bear All unrestrained the aged joke He listened to last year, lie is a boon to punsters all. The strongest of their start's The man w tin's heard an aced pun, Aud holds his tongue and laud's. il. S. Keller, in UoAalVe Sun. "When you got very tired," said one young man to another, "do you ever lose command of words and ideas?" "No," said the other young man. "I can't suy thnt I do; but I huve felt that way sometimes when I got home very late at night." Somervilli Journal. AN AUTUMNAL WAIL. Tho' lingers yet the summer's afterglow, Grim waiter's distant footsteps smite mine ear: Furewell to flowers, to breezes soft and low. Blue skies, and robin's carol clear. Uh, days of drifting snow, of gloomy sky, Of howling wind, of raven's mournful not'.' 1 Thine advent 1 await with frrief, for 1 Shall have to buy an overcoat. ll'iiV Carey, in Life. The Useful Bum boo. Iu whatever nature may have beeu this countryy-skhasentfeomryr'r sated for by besto'wJpoii it I ftTI 1 ifnT'Vasj fjifc 1 ""'I point, wines u corTc-sjjoiiueiii irom c 11111a to itio tst. Louis Jte.iiWicni. There are no less than 50 varieties of the bamboo, the growth of which is favored by certain lo"' '.is, and each is pos sessed of iuiu special quality adapting it to the manufacture of useful articles. For instance, tho sui chuck (water bum boo), growing in swamps and ponds, is very tall, straight und light, und is largely employed in the framework of sails, aud iu tho manufacture of cheap baskets, joss sticks, etc. Tho young und tender shoots of this variety nre also used for food. Tho tai chuck, which grows to a great height, furnishes poles used in the propelling of bouts through narrow canals or shallow waters. In a crowded river like the Canton, where it is often impossible to use the oars, the boat is moved along either by touching the river bed with the long bamboo or by hooking on to other craft. A long and flexible variety called n'gon chuck makes the best boat hooks, which, iu the larger coolie ports, like Swatow and Amoy, are employed in a novel method of boarding steamers. When a coolie steamer from the south arrives, several hundred sampans will rush alongside, uud thu occupants, hooking on to the gunwale or railing, grusp the slender bamboo with the hands, uud, with feet uguinst the side of the vessel, they clam ber on board the biggest iron steamers with the agility of monkeys. In fact, these sampan people, iu their haste to solicit the patronage of their returned brethren, scorn n gangway ladder when a bamboo boat book is convenient. Mai chuck (carrying pole bamboo) is of extreme toughness, and with these poles all merchandise und movable properly 011 hind nre transferred from 0110 point to another on the shoulders of coolies. The pan chuck is used iu unking chop sticks, tut loo chuck lor walking canes, quun yum chin k for pens, while other species, even including the thorny nud dwarfish lac chuck, growing 011 locky hills, have such a variety of purposes that a lurgu volume might be III led with their description, due kind is made into ropes and rigging for junks, or is woven into hit-, units uud sails, while the long leaves of another are made into pict uresque looking coolie ruin coats. Horse Power" Defined. The working capabilities of an engine is what we call its horse power - that is, thu amount of work done in a given time, as compared witli a similar amount done iu the same time by horses. Thu estimate is thnt one horse can raise U.Ono pounds through one foot of space in u minute. This is the standard bv w hich the power of engines uro gauged. fV troit Fne Piviu. All in Ills rlie. "I cannot imagine ivhat is iu my eye." said Jones, senior, the other day. "It must have been a fly or other iusect that hurt t." "That's nothing," said Jones, junior, iu his airy way. "I havu had u young lady in uiy eye all summer, ami you haven't heard me complain uUiut it. eye I her. " Detroit 7Vr r
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