THE FOREST RKPBBLICAH
b Jiabllihrd nry Wednesday, bf
J. Z. WENKi
Oltloe la Smearbough A Co.' Building
KUt STREET, TIONE8TA, Pa.
Term, . 1 1.00 per Ytr.
No inbuerlptlont receive! for shorter period
than (hrr monih.
Oorrmpontlenca solicited from all nana of th
cmnlry. No nailoe wtU tr take of anonymous
noiiiiunls-atloa.
Nevada Is about m proud over tlie
fact that a big vein of fine anthracite
coal has been struck as it is of its silver
mines. There's about as much money in
tho coal, too, as in the silver.
A novel sight witnessed near Mount
Vernon, Me., lately was that of a man
mowing on tho ice. A portion of his
farm is in swanp-land, which is too
wet to mow in summer, but by waiting
until It freezes ho is enabled to harvest
a large crop of hay from it
The number of pcoplo who apeak Eng
lish has increased seven fold during the
Inst century and now amounts to u
hundred million. At the same rnte of
Increase the end of anothercentury there
' will be seven hundred million Knglish
speaking people, says Mr. Gladstone in
the Xorth Anerican llmieit.
The French Academy, by its recent
annual distribution of "prizes of merit,"
lias proclaimed Jean Adolphe Pcliinnoy,
Calais pilot, the most heroic of French
men, llo hns risked his life twenty-one
times iu awing shipwrecked crewsand
is loaded with medals. He also wears
the cross of the I.cgion of Honor.
The people of Chicago will furnish
free to the National Republican Com
mittee next June everything necessary
for the convention's use. This will in
clude the hull, committee rooms, ushers
for the meetings, stenographers, all
necessary printing, decorations and car
riages. The cost will be ut least $10,-
000. '
'"The city of Lecompton, Kansas, which
thirty years ago was one of tho most
promising towns in the West, is to-day a
htriking example- of a "busted boom."
Town lots that sold readily for $1,000
each in 1854 cannot now be disposed of
' at $00, and the half a million dollur
State-House thcu under way is now a
mass of ruin.
Physicians pronounce cigarette smok
ing as the cause of many troubles. It is
stated upon undoubted authority that an
unusually largo number of young men
have been committed to the Mi hignn
State Insane Asylum during the last
eighteen months, and that the discovery
has been, made tint nearly ull of them
smoked cigarettes to excess. In many
cases it is said to be absolutely reilun
that cigarette smoking was the cause of
the insauity.
There is a variety of posts and poles in
New York streets. There are lamp
posts, jewelers' posts surmounted by
clocks, Fire Department poles, Western
I'niou Telegiagh poles, electric light
poles, and poles for the electric light
wires, barbers' poles and polii o signal
box poles. The Trilune says fn. ctiously
that "all that is wanting now to com
. plete the equipment of our streets is tho
North Polo, and then tho average New
Yorker ought to ba satisfied."
. New York State has had twenty-eight
Governors, only three of whom were
bachelors, namely, Tilden, Cleveland and
Hill. But while Samuel J. Tilden was
a confirmed bachelor ho was, neverthe
less, fond of the society of ladies. That
Mr. Cleveland had no strong prejudice
against the gentler sex his marriago
clearly proves. lint Governor Hill, the
New Yor' World says, seems to be en
tirely devoted to the society of his own
fi. He is tho most uncompromising
bachelor in the State, aud though he is
repeatedly urged to contemplate matri
mony by his friends he always turns a
deaf ear to such suggestions.
Hecent annual agricultural returns iu
Great Britain show that the area of wheat
has increased by HO.OUO acres during tho
past year, and that of barley has de
creased by 178,000 acres. Broadly
stated, there is less land in grain by 11:),
000 this year than 188(1, o reduction of
11,800 acres in gre:'ii crops, aud .a reduc
tion of no les than 0,400 in hop. There
appears an increase of nearly :l,ono acres
in flax. The extent of arable lands now
out of cultivation iu England and Wales
is less than in 1881 by upwards of 25,000
acres. Nearly 4,000 acrcas of decreased
acreage in hops is in the county of Kent,
where much of the laud lias not been
otherwise utilized. Hops have been
grubbed up in consequence of the unre
uuincrative character of the crop from
the prevailing low prices, due to foreign
competition. .
A block of madel tenement houses
has been opened on Cherry street, New
York, which is tho result of the enter
prise of a number of practical-minded
metropolitan philanthropists, and which
it is to be hoped will hae a long line of
successors. The houses, says the Aivi,
have been built to pay a moderate re
turn on the capital invested, and all that
tho skill of the architect nnd the sani
tary engineer could do to render them
wholesome and habitable, has been doue.
A room for a Kiudergarten, conducted
uuder the auspices of the building com
pany, is a special and certainly not the
least admirable feature of curb group of
six houses. The opeu coints separating
the houses of each L'ruup, the well-vcn-tilati
d halls and corridors, the basement
laundries, aud other new characteristics
ut these houses, maik a distinct advauce
in the building of tenement houses ia
New York.
VOL. XX, NO. 39.
WINTER FR1END3.
As winds that floweret s-atteT
To gain their perfect scents,
As pools that softly flatter
The (taker's llnoiimenbn
As bumblo-hecs who gather
Bweets with a ruthless sting,
Then leave the bloom to withor
A torn and bleeding thing;
As Autumn skies nil smiling
Which turn to sudden frost,
As aoas In smooth beguiling
Boon high are torn pest-tossed I
As some false gem doth glitter,
And Folly's sparkle lends;
So and nlas! so bitter,
Like these are " Surumor friends."
Like gifts of noble giving
Liko earth and fire and sky,
Like sunshine for all living,
And peace for all who die;
Like poets' wondrous pages.
Like music's mystic power;
Like doeds of other ages
Grown greater to this hour;
Liko Charity, formatting
Anil loving more through pain;
Liko joy with no regretting,
And sorrow not in vain;
Like some strong word that, flowing
Straight to the soul, transcends
All oth rs in listening
True good are wintr friends.
Then hoi ye friends of Summer,
Be pledged in froth of winel
To love a trifling comer,
As lightly go from mine!
But, friends of Winter, never
From my true soul depart,
But drink with me forever
Th nectar of the heart
Cora Linn Daniel.
LOST THEIR NERVE.
You often hear it said of a man that
he doesn't seem to know hat fear is.
lie may not, so far as standing up before
other men, or facing ordinary dangers,
but there are two dangers which no liv
ing man can face anil hold his nerve very
loug. I assert this because it has been
my fortune to meet some of the most
courageous of men of this generation,
and 1 have ha 1 opportunities losec their
nerve under fire.
There is probably no place in tho
wo:ld where tlio man eating shark grows
to larger proportions and iieicer disposi
tion than in the liulf of liengal. Aud in
the bays and harbors along tho coast the
crocodile attains his full size and his
temper fully ripens. While I was in the
employ of the Kuglish mail service in
India one of the ideas worked out was
speedier tian-portation. New routes
were se'eeted to save distance, and
whercvir it was possible the rivers weie
made use of. On one occasion I was
descending the Little Itangoon Hivcr
with thiee natives and the mail bags,
whe i wo were hailed from shore bv an
r.ugiu-11 iiunter wuo nad been camping
out ami.iig tne tierco wild animals and I
poisonous serpents for seventy days, llo
was cut, rely alone, and ho had killed i
., ...
five lo .purds. three tigers, six or eight i
large serpents, and much other game. !
He bad sexeral Ircsh scars to prove a j
hand-to-hand court ct with a wounded ;
tiger, and tlu bare fact of his being '
alone in that country, exposed to almost j
proof that he was a brave man,
lie had!
a nut ai tue uaiiK nun was about to cross
the stream. Altera visit of a quarter of
au hour we took him in tow and dropped
him down about a mile. We had ust
headed for the other bunk when I saw a
large crocodile rise to the surface just
bch. nd the hunter's raft. The man hud
not entered the boat with us, but was
sitting on his traps on the raft. I called j
to him to. shoot tho repue, and he arose
and made as pretty a hot as ever one
saw, striking the saurian in the eve and
killing him at once. We were applaud
ing the shot when a dozen of the mons
ters broke water all about the raft. Wo
hod a tow-rope about forty feet long,
and were its f .ill length ahead of the raft.
None of the reptiles paid tue least atten-
tiontothu bout, but all seemed deter-
miued to make a closer acquaiutam e with
the raft.
The hunter hud a repeating rifle, aud
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He stood on
u uis icei aim uangeu away
rii;ht and
ordered the men to co se rowing, nnd got
l.v,.,j, JIM. (MWO.U.
out my i wu rifle, but before I had tired I snouts of four aliiatois between us aud
a shot a monster crocodile cl mbed upon I tho bauk. Wo were having au after
tho side of the light bimlvoo raft and j d nner smoke uuder the awning, and
upset it. We backed water rapidly, and ! ,1 called the attention of the croud to
it was not oer thirty seconds before boat j the sauriaua. C.ip.ain Scott got up with
nnd raft bad bumped. At that same iu-! a laugh, threw away his cig ir, nnd, he
slant the huntei rose beside the boat, aud
one of the natives puled him in. While
ho lay ou the bottom of the boat we
rowed about and picked up such of his
traps as were ntloat. It was very liftlo
we saved, as his firearms had gone to the
bottom, and his skins and pelts had been j
swiftly devoured by the crocod lej. I
When I came to oler tho man some :
spirits his looks had changed, so that 1
i could scarcely believe he was the same
man. -o one stunning on inegaiiows
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He had scarcely swallowed the whisky
that wo cover mm up in the boitom ot
the boat. It was a whole furtniiht be -
lore ino man recovered ui toiiiioi.u re,
w iiien.s nerve was gone lorevcr. lie
wuo li in oiouii w in ur wu ikiiitu amui-
ing the rush of a tiger, and who carried
marks to prove his bravery aud his vic
tory, bad be n totally broken up by au
exerieiue of hss than two minutes iu
the water with a do.eu crocodiles. It was
the feeling that he was helpless, which
took his courage away. Iu the case of
the tiger he felt that he had some little
show. Wlieu he was thing into the
water lie ic.tli -ed that he hud none. 1
have seen several meu bung who -'died
came," and w ho got the credit of be ng
brave fellow i. Jt is all nonsense to talk
about biavery in the face of the hangman.
" Dying game '' is either the courage
which conies from stimulants furnished
by the Jailer, or it is f.ilseeuthiisiain due
to the la' ors of tho cleigyuu n for many
duys past.
On one uf my trips up th s eamo river,
and it bund ed miles from the ciast, 1
i am tied one night with a party of British
officers who were out on a hunt. Tho
loader o! the ptuty, nud the bct shot md
brave t man in it, was Ma lor Ciiiti, a
man nliout 40 yeurs old. liu had killed
more v. iid animals than any white muu
iu the luviuec. Armed only with a re-
.Kb J.
TIONESTA, PA.,
volver ho had entered a bungalow in
whir h a murderer Was concealed, and
taken him away from a crowd of bis
friends ami delivered him over to justice
On a bet of tio be bad swum the river
amd the alligators, and ho would stand
for the rush of a t gcr or the spring of a
panther w,th a laugh on his lips. They
said of the Major that he did not know
what fear was. He, perhaps, thought so
himself.
The Camp was on the bank of the river,
and only a temporary one, and no tents
or covers Were erected. Wo sat around
the tires until a late hour, smoking fend
yarning, and when we rolled ourselves
up lor sleep tho Ma;or and I were only
about four feet apart, with nothing be
tween us. The camp grew silent at once,
and everybody was soon sound asleep. I
was just doing o.f when I thought I de
tected the crawl of a snake near me, but,
after listening closely for a minute, I
concluded that it w as a li.ard or insect.
The air, the earth, the forests, and the
waters of India are full of animal life by
day and by night. A camp no sooner
giows quiet than wild rats and mice, liz-
zards, great beetles, and threo or four ing by a large body of soldiery and con
sorts of squirrels begin to prospect ! ducted to the military target shoot, over
around, wh.le night birds circle about ' a mile nway. He was roaring defiance
and the wolf, lox, jackal, hyena, and I when he came into the open uir, and he
other animals draw near. Snakes arc ; kept it up until tho place of execution
always to I e feated, but if one started ; was reached. Then he suddenly grew
up at every suspicions sound he would calm, and ho had no sooner b' en placed
never get an hour's sleep. i in front of his ollin than he broke down
Daylight was just coming when I
opened my eyes. I was on my left side. ,
turned toward the Major, and I noticed ,
mat lie was on nis duck, l iose iieswe
mo was a ro. olver, wh'ch I had slipped i
out of its holster the. night before th .t I
iiuub uavo u uui.uy in case ui ueeu.
Not another soul iu tho camp was yet
aroused, so far as I knew, and I lnv lis- t
teuing to the noises in the surrounding ;
forcst while davnght continued to crow '
stronger. I was about to arise, when I ! woik, he purchased a place in the coun
suddenly saw the head of a serpent lift try. Ho had not been there a great
itself above the Ma.or s brca-t and wavo
to and fro. I shut my eyes for a few
seconds and then opened them to see tho
same sight again. 1 even tried it again
and again, learlul Unit 1 was dozing, and
not wishing to believe what I pi. duly i
saw. It certainly was tho head of a ven- I
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.,,,.., a,,.,., viusj... . ill ,
bling the American black t-nuke, and as
deadly as any fcr ent in India. It
waved its head and darted its tongue for
a moment, and then settled back into its
coil. As so, m as the head went down I
felt for my revolver and drew back tlu
hammer. The click 1 click 1 alarmed tho
snake, as I knew it would, bu: by the
time he had elevated his head ugaiu I
had my arm outstretched and the nnizz.e
of the revolver w ithin two feet of him.
It was a snap shot and had to I o made
I on the instant, aud it was by pure good
luck that 1 sent a Utilu-t tlirouiili Ins
ugly head. He was wri.hing and Hop
ping about as I sprang up, and was dead
us I bent over thu Major.
The snake had crept out of the bushes
ana upon mo Majors ureasi esny in uiu ;
night. It was not more than midnight '
wheu tho latter awoke and found tho ;
. . ... . . .
serpent coiled un. and he knew that any :
novement. nn 1, imi t would result in
... - . . .
certain death. 1-or three hours and a
half he ha t rested on the broad of his
back, never moving a muscle, with his
-- -- i - - - - -
eyes wide open, and that serpent's bead
part of the time waving to ami fro, within j
six inches of Ins face. When I bent j
over him he was helpless. When we
uot him olf tho ground he eanic down .
t'ain and began Ho weep, and it was ,
us. me result ot ins cxpcr.euco was i
that he became a perfect physical cow- ;
ard, startled at the slightest noise, and -
was ready to run from even a house-
dog. I
uaugoou Bay i. infested with the
Oue season I was out lor two weeks iu a
small schooner with a party of engineers,
hunters and hshers. U had with us a
Captain bcott an ex-olhcer of the army, j
and a man whose reputation for bravery ,
extended over a large district. On one
occasion he followed a native who bad
committed murder forty m les into the
interior, and took him out of a village of
excited peoplo without a man to back
lifln. llo bad tniity-lour tiger skius 01
his own k lling, and once when a band
of fivo natives, each urnied with a creese,
; attacked him, he drew his cavalry sab,e 1
i and killed three, and drove tho other I
' two off with wounds to nurse. 'ne day ;
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; as we lay on 1110 i mho o. h.u o..,,
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; it huudicd feet of shore, I counted the
! fore any of us suspected w hat he
had in mind, he sprang upon the rail ami j
went overooaru and swam asuo c. e i
ran for our rifles, hoping to tngliten the ;
monsters off but he reached the bank in I
a:ety, rested lor a couple of minutes ,
and then swam back. 1 hero wasn t an
other man of us who would have taken ,
that swim for all the jewels of the.
nabobs. ..--!
Three or four days later, as we were
i,n co . . j .
beating across the bay, the schooner was
M. ... 1,1,.., s,, mill 'lvn while!
. - -
i men and three natives were drow ned,
: schooner s uouoiu aim naiig on in uiu
I keel. The siiuull soon paased
urrra irum ,u uui, . " '
. ..ay a. ur..8ut - ... ..... 7";
If there was j
soon iii p.. . ;n...i .v.
one there were 30 , and they had no fear
of us. They took off a white man aud
uuother native, and some of the largest
sprang out of water until they rested
hall their length on the bottom of the
craft. Strangely enough, t'up'ain Scott
was tlie first to cxhib t terror and to
break down. Within half an hour from
the time the accident happened we were
compelled to seize hold of h m to keep
him with u, and su h was his fear that
he almost lost his mind. Wo were res
cued iu about an hour, but the Captain
was done for. Ho was almost a wreck.
A hoy ten years of age, armed with a
stick, could have put him to flight, and
if a honey bee or a wasp alighted near
him he would scream out like a child.
Tlie first man was brave because he had
always fought with a weapon, and real
ized that he had tho advantage. The
second mini lost his nerve when taken at
a disadvantage. The third was a coward
us soon asdisablcd.
I was present several years ago at an
txerution in Havana. A Cubuu putriot
they (idled 'cm guerrillas hud been
C.iptuied in the mountains after a louu'
EPUBLICAN
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1888. Si
hunt. He bad killed With his own
hand over thirty men. He had fired
dozens bf plantation buildings, helped
torture many planters, and he killed
negroes so often that he did not cut a
notch for their death. He had the
characteristics of a tiger. He would kill
where other men would spare.
He had had many hand-to-hand fights
with the regular troops, and no ten of
them would have dared attempt his cap
ture. On one occasion he put a squad of
thirteen Spanish soldiers to flight, and od
another he captured a squad of live who
had been left to guard a path, and cut the
throat of every man. I visited him lid
jail in company with the British Consul.
Although lie was loaded down with
chains and kept behind bars which an
elephant could not have wrenched away,
everybody was afraid of him. lie was
reckless and defiant to the last, and de
lighted to call out the nnmcs of his vic
tims and relate how he had disposed of
each one.
I got permission to be pre-cnt when
the guerrilla was shot, lie was taken
from the prison in the gray of the morn
and belted and pleaded in a way to
touch the heart, lie offered to betray
his comrades, do anything on earth, to
preserve his life, and he was groveling
in the dirt when the bullets of the firing
squad put an end to his life. Aiio York
Mfl,
"
A I'nlqno Advertisement
Some years ago, when Mr. Bonner be-
enme worn out with the fatigue of hard
while when the following appeared in
the f.iiirr under the heading, "A
country seat for sale whcie there is fever
and ague:'
1 hereby offer to sell mv country seat at
Wesi Morrisania. near Melrose Station, where
lmv llvyor t'"" P;,s; ,uree summers, but
lo not t'nnk I could live mil li longer. I
h.h thnr ,..,, i(K)ki,ln. f. . ,- tn
jiiinhw could never find one where they
have chills and fever. They always have it
nliout a mile or a mile and a half or two
miles away, but never right tltnro at the
jilace that is for sale. Now, I offer for sale a
curiosity .something rare the jirecise. exa't
spot where the fever and ague is. I will
warrant it to be there. Three of my children
have it, my gardener has it. my groom has the
premonitory symptoms, and I have a suf
ficient inkling of it myself. Any doctor with
a large family, with a specific for fever and
a !iie would tliid it a most eligible situation.
The nttighliorhorKl is full of the disease, and
if he coulil keep it out of his own family
it would give him a reputation which would
assure bin future. HesMes the fever aud
aguethn estate consists of a line double house
with modern conveniences and iumrove
meiits, such as hot and cold water, furnace,
lanue.etc. About two aeresof laud, a pretty
iiuiura
fair barn, and some excellent Ikix stalls for
holTCS. u is renliv i.,,..,,.! pinre. The
grounds are hund-omcly laid out and covered
with shrubbery ami trees of the choicest
'"' .l "e tlv?s ."'v ?nol1 n delightful
" . uarnor Ir mosirtmo s.
nought me piaea
to please my wife, and shall
sell it to please my whole family. Terms
cash. 1 am nfraid my security on it would
get fever an 1 ague nnd become shaky. Those
'7, .ttSitt asTas
dexter can rry awa7 trom 11 M fast
' Robert Bonnkh.
P. S. The town authorities have bejun to
mnk alterations in the Mr et adjoining,
Thi, .,i..Pf :.,, f.,,..pii nll!tn .
cnlj(m at tllc. tj,e. and was copied in
the dui, over the country.
Joar.ieying by Kuft with Ills Family,
a strange cralt was that which came
! down the Missouri Jiiver early yesterday
I morning aud tied up a short d. stance
tivB , fnf wh jch wag ;,, j a
chaotU? mBSS 'of ,)oor furniiure fmd
. .. . , , b . (1,leei.,wa..e.
below Harlem. It consisted or a prinu
clothing and half broken iiicen-waie,
The craft was about twenty feet long and
not half that wide, and upon it a man,
his wife, and five children, have floated
down the Missouri all th-i way from
Northern Nebraska. The man's name is
.lulo Tillson, and his destination is Ar
kansas, whence he emigrated a year ago
j as
u
was
to what is known as the Niobrara couu-
an unsettled region in Noithern Ne-
aska. Ho soiiattcd 011 a claim, l.ut
(k,r9 came al This ,(,t Ti,Uoll
w, ,!, me:
;ans, and, gathering his few
eMccts together, he put his family on
the little craft, whi h he has christened
thu Arkansaw Traveler, and started ou
his long voyage. Tho family has been
on the water over six weeks, and the
trip has been without incident, except
the death of one of the littlo ones. The
child was about six years old, and prone
to somnambulism. At a point near moiix
ci .e chid was f,m,d lllissill wheu
,,,,,. BWoke one ...orning, having
wa,ko , ilt0 ,he Nul,t.r dri ,Ue nj ht
imi m C(1IltiuU0 OI1hiu ?
,0.day.A-WM av .,.
' 'm .
Keck on ins; un Income.
A capable domestic servant in our
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cities may annually lav by a sum equal
. ., . J :.. .. ..
""' "I'"" v iu H"".i-
. t ,ondK. alm all industrious mechaii-
jn ht(.a,,' ,mpllivm,ut, earus . 8llm
I mil to $-.'ll,0i0 at 4 per cent. A tcam-
i,i o 1 8,cr in Montana, or a cowboy in Colora
uui a i . ,. i . .i.:n......
no, nuus nun nits Biieuiii mm Mini niu
; wor, to j.i,,,, i money each year,
. ,,,,,,-h as xvould be if 10.00:) invested
the saute luuds.cven if he could buy them
lit par.
The lawyer or physician in a county
town wlio earns his i,0(IO annually, if
suddenly debarred from practice, won d
requite li i.OOO in bonds to yield him
the same income; and the editor-in-chief
of a great c ty daily has a power iu hi i
brain worth to him, iu hard cash, the
capital of tf' iilti.lHltl. . ( uu i r.
Hooks That Hate Helped Is."
Among the tiooks that help us all
Along hies ill vary trai k,
In siuiiiiu-r, w inter, spr.ng and fall,
None beuts the Almanac.
It weuther proplu'ci.-s are true,
( )r iii-arly, if not quit".
And kno k the signal Service Bu-
lle.iu higher than a kite.
Kiomday to duy with ti nti lei.ee
W e to its pagos go,
To tind logs c.rar mild col 1 intense
liigh Hindi, "Look out tor eiiow."
But better far than heut or cold,
hnow, hail, rain, t.uiudi-r showers.
It Uives us joke tnut Adutu told
To l.ve iu luleu s Ixmers.
Uuilon Couritr.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIR
Georgia Itoilnd nice.
The boiling of rice is not always well
done, and yet it is the ftimplcst of mat
ters; that it should be dry is doubly ini
jiortant when the intention is to serve
it as an addition t i another .vegetable!
dish witha savory sauce. After washing
the rice, put it over the lire in plenty ot
actually boiling, salted water, and boil it
fant for twelve minutes; then drain oil
all the Water, place the saucepan con
taining the rice cither in the oven, with
the door open, or on ft uncle upon tue
back of the stove, add let it steam for
ten minutes longer, or until it is tender
as desirable: every grain will be distinct,
and the rice quite free from moisture.
Bice boiled too long is watery and
soasy. When it is tender, it may be
seasoned with salt, pepper or butter, or
served plain.
Proper Care of Closet a.
Closets are not only useful but a neces
sary part of a house. Many housekeepers
think that there cannot bo too much
closet room provided. There are tn iny
things which are properly put into
closets, and other things which should
never go into closets. Of such are all
soi'ed undi rgarments. Clothing that
has been worn should not be hung away
until properly ventilated. In this way
two fertile sources of bud odors in
closets may be excluded. Many hang
their night clothes in the closet during
the day. This also should be avoided
unless they have had a thorough airing
before being hung. If the closet docs
not admit of a Window, the door should
be left open for a few hours every day to
admit pure air. Some persons have
ventilatois placed just over the door, but
the outside air, if admitted for a short
time everv day, will nuriiy a closet
where only clean clothes are hung. No
matter how clean the clothing in tho
closet may be, if there is no ventilation.
the clothing wiil not be what it should
-Di troit Trilniiie.
Chicken Pie.
This is my favorite way of cooking
chicken, says Mrs. Jewell in the I'm trie
Fnrimr. They are ni e roast d or boiled
or fricasseed, but a good pie is better
than them all. I prepare it ns follows:
Cut up one or two plump young chi. keiis
and stew them near y done in water
enough to come up well around, but not
over them. Then sliitn out the i hickcu,
season the broth totas:ewith pepper and
salt, thicken it w ith a large tablespoon
ful of flour rubbed smooth in two table
spoonfuls butter, and the yolk of an
egg. For tlie crust, rub into three tea
cupfuls of flour two thirds cup of butter,
or butter and lard together, one tea
spoonful baking powder, nnd as nim h
salt; add water enough to ri 11 out with
out sticking. Keep the materials for the
crust as cool us po-sible. ltoll out and
fold the paste over upon itself three or
four times, roll again and re cat this
process it a flaky crust is desired. Next
line the s'des, but not the bottom, of a
deep pudding-dish, with the pastry. Lay
the pieces of chicken iu smoothly, sea
soning them with salt and pepper, as
needed ; pot.r the gravy over aud cover
with a pretty thi k crust. Leave an open
ing in the center for t e escape of steam,
pinch the edges closely t keep iu the
gravy, and bake in a good oven from
forty to forty-five minutes. It is always
well to reserve some gravy to send to the
table in n tureen, to bo served with tho
p:c should it happen to havo cooke I
away the gravy too much, as it is quite
apt to do.
r so ful Hints.
l ee good soup in the kitchen, as it
saves the hands.
Salt dissolved in alcohol will remove
grea-e spots from cloth.
Hub the tea kettle with kerosene aud
polish with a dry tlaniiel cloth.
Flour should be kept in a barrel, with
a flour scoop to dip it and a sieve to
sift it.
Ceilings that have been smoked by a
kerosene lamp should be washed oil with
soda water.
Cold sliced potatoes fry and taste bet
ter by sprinkling a teaspoouful of flour
over them while l'ryii.g.
A hand oino effect is obtained by cov
ering the ceding with cano strips and tho
wall with matting. It is rich looking,
yet it is cheap.
Ad excellent way sf cooking eggs is to
break them in boiling milk without beat
ing. I'ook slowly, nccasioual y stirring,
and when done add pepper, salt and
butter.
There should bu a small table about
the height of the range for use as a rest-
ing place tor utensils wneu utile cues,
griddle cakes, etc., uro made. It should
be covered w th zinc.
For removing stains from oil cloth and
zinc use kerosene. It will soon evapoiato
nnd leav e no odor. Kerosene may safely
be applied to the most ileiii ale furn tine
and carpels for exterminating moths.
Too many of us spoil lea instead of
making it palatable. It is boiled until
it tastes insipid. The process of making
a good cup of tea is so simple that it is
em prising to tind a housewife w ho docs
not understand it. Yet theie are many
such. Heat a black earthenware teapot.
Put into it a teaspoouful of tea leaves
and pour over it a pint of freshly boded
water. Let it stand two minutes on the
bu k of the range where it will not boil.
Aud that is all then; is to it. If it boils
it will become bitter, and no delicate
palate will accept it as tea.
All Hie Letters. !
Cue of our exchanges calls attention
to a queer contest .that ha- been taking I
place lucent ly, and ends w ill, a challenge .
which, as a representative of young folks, i
wo a ccpt : i
' The idea is to see who can produce j
the shortest grammatical si nti nee coii-
tailiing all the letters of the alphabet. It
resulted in the following: ' uhn ipiickly
extemporized five tow bags.' 'Ibis sen
tence contains thirty-four letters. Can
a .y of oar young folks make a shorter
one?"
Yes, we can. Kvident y, while good
grammar is ueee saiy, sense is not re
quired. Accordingly wo oiler this: My
.'abez quickly vexed the wrong fops.
Th rty-ono letters, aud no consonant re
peated : und we believe it umy be os-i-ble
to acci.mplish the feat with thirty
letters, Fm'A'j Oun; anim
,50 PER ANNUM.
PRESIDENTIAL TOVERTY.
HABD-riT3HED DSSCEWDAHTS
OF
BOMB 'PRESIDENT.
Jcfl'erson's Grand-daitfrhter Dies In
Poverty Tyler's Children Est I
rnaltea of Presidential Wealth.
Alluding to the fact that a niece of
Andrew .lackson's recently had to beg
for a ni'ht's lodging in a Washington
hotel, a New York M'orbl correspondent
says;
Thomas Jefferson's grand-daughler,
Septimn Meikleham, died here recently,
leaving several grand children to battle
with tue world. One of her sons, owing
to a severe sickness, is not at all strong
menta ly. One of her daughters is not
well enough to work, and the other is
employed in one of the Government do
nnitmi.iit.1 Another rrreat-L'rand-daugh
tor of Jefferson has i harge of a school in
Baltimore, and Monticello has long since
passed out of the hands of the family
Just before Jefferson died he was so
m ch in debt that a lottery scheme wa
g itten up to sell his property and relieve
is necessities. He left practically
nothing to his children, and they re
ceived some two sums of $10,000 each
from the Legislatures of two of the
Southern St itcs.
John Tyler left some property, but it
all went to his second wife. One of his
sous, General John Tyler, who drove a
four-in-haud while his father was in the
White House, and who was then called
the handsomest man in Washington,lives
on a position in the Treasury depart-ment-und
one of Tyler's most accom
plished daughters, a lady who presided
over the Exeetltivo Mausion after her
mother's death and until her father mar
ried Julia Gardner, is a guest at Cor
coran's Old Ladies' Home here. A man
who claims to be one of the Washington
family, and who, by the way, has a fa e
strikinu-lv like that of tho President.
peddles trinkets in a littlo booth in tho
Pension building. Dolly Madison, tho
President's wife, was, during a part
of her lust days, furnished food by a
colored mun wlio had been in 1 resident
Madison's service. She got, however, a
large sum of money from Congress for
Madison s papers, and it w as this that
cased her declining years.
Most of the Presidents have died poor,
and few of them have made much out of
office-holding. Monroe was so poor that
his hitter duys were spent with his son-in-law,
Samuel L. Gouvcrneur, in New
York, and there ho d.cd. Harrison left
nothing to speak of. Polk left about
$150,000, including Polk Place at Nash
ville, where his widow now lives. It is
a valuable block of ground in the center
of the town, which has risen largely in
value since tho President's death.
Martin Van Buren niaiio money
out of politics, lie started life poor and
died weil-to-do. One estimate puis his
estate at $800,000, and he mode money
in real estate as well as in the law. Both
of the Adamses were money savers, if
not money makers. The letters of John
Adams, the second President, to his wife
Abigail, repeatedly urged her to cut dowr
tho household expenses and to practise
economy. Ho lunched himself on oat
cake nud lcmonadj, and he walked far
oftencr than he rode.
John tjuincy Adams received nearly
a half m llion dollars from the Govern
ment iu salaries during his lifetime, nnd
he possessed the Yankee thrift. The
Adams fami y at present is one of the
richest iu New F.ngliiud, nnd I was told
at Kansas City that Charles i raticis
Adams had more thun a million dollars
invested iu real estate there. He has
railroad stocks and bonds in ad iition,
and he mnkos his money breed like Aus
tralian rabbits.
Andrew Jackson spent more thnn his
salary while he was iu the White House,
and he had to borrow money to keep up
w.th his expenses. '1 homas Jcllerson
borrowed tho money that carried him out
of Washington when he left the Presi
dency, and Andy Johnson, though he en
tertained considerably, is supposed to
ha. e saved at least if."i0,000 during his
Wh to House career, lie died, lam told,
worth ubout $100,000, nud the most of
this came from economy. It was a pretty
good estate for n tailor to leave. James
Buchanan was making about $7,000 a
year at the law when he entered Con
gress, and he spcut during his Presi
dency what was left from his living ex
penses in charity. He was not, how
ever, a rich mun when he died, and his
estate of Wheatland was sold a year or
two ago.
President Fillmore began life as u
wool-carder. During the three years ho
was engiged to his sweetheart he hud not
enough money to pay the expenses of the
.hundred and fifty miles which lay be
tween her home in Saratogo County, N.
V., and where ho had begun to practice
law. During the li.st year of their mar
riage his w fc did the housework und
taught school, and still he died one of
the richest of the Presidents. The
greater part of his fortune, however,
came from his second marriage to a rich
woman of Itull'alo, w hom he courted after
his i ist w .fe d ed.
President t' eveland is supposed to bo
worth nliout II0,0H0, und he own-, I am
told, n il c-ta'.u iu Builulo which is
rapidly advancing in va'no. President
Arthur h ft nun h less than he wus sup
posed to be woith. Gai field, shortly be.
lore his death owed ! ',000 to General
Swaim, and Grant did not add to his
fortune by bis While House iiireer.
Hayes ma le money out of the Presidency,
ami is rich through inheritances aud
c oiiomy. The Picsidciits, us a rule,
have not save 1 money during their Prvsi-d'-m-y;
but the same abilities whiih
made them Presidents would, if they had
b "ii Used in the I eld of money-making
au 1 money saving, have given them for-
llli.CS.
On Dangerous Ground.
Auckland, New Zealand, is a lively
and en'.i i n rising city of ,"0,000 iuhabil-
j1"1
It is s.tuaied near the ciatcr of u
cwinct volcano, which, according
t i . ii utisis, may resume active opera
li hi- al any moment. The Aueklandei -,
however, me n it terrified at the prospe t,
and in fact are going lo cement the bo -t.
in of the crater a id ..so it as u res rv .
for tin ir water supply. Fir.- und ll'i
Intellectual pleasures are a nobler kiud
tlia i uny others. I hey be ong to thiuus
of the highest order, 'i'h y aie the in
clinations of heaven, am! entertainment
ot t ie Deity.
RATES OP ADVERTISING.
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One Kiiuare, one Inch, on month
One Kquare, one Inch, three moatae
Oi.a Square, one Inch, on yew 10 m
Two Sqiiar a, one rear 18 J
Cjnartcr Column, one yaor jj
Half Colnmn, on year M 00
Oua Column, ona year ,u0 w
Leiral advertUemenu tan eenta par line each la
toruuo.
Marriage aad eth notice gratia.
All bill, for yarly adrertlMaieiita enllerted o,nar
trly. Tiniorrj wJ?artl.aQienle Diuu be M U
ad.auea.
Job work caeh en Salivary.
Ct-D SAYINQS.
As poor as a church
As thin as a rail;
As fat as a porpoise,
As rough as a gale;
As brave aa a lion,
As spry aa a eat;
As bright as a sixpenos,
As weak as a rat
' As proud as a peaooek.
As sly as a fox;
As ma t as a March bars,
, As strong as an ox;
As fair as a lily,
As empty as air;
Aa rich as Croesus,
As cross as a bear.
As pure as an angel,
As neat as a pin;
As smart as a steel-trap,
As ugly as sin,
As dead as a door-nail,
As white as a sheet;
As flat as a pancake,
As red as a beet.
As round as an apple,
As black as yoi hat;
As brown as a berry,
As blind as a bat;
As mean as a miser,
As full aa a tick;
Ai plump as partridge,
As sharp aa a stick.
As clean as a penny,
As dark as a pall;
As hard as a millstone,
As bitter as gall;
As fine as a fiddle.
As clear as a bell;
As dry as a herring,
As deep as a welL
As light as a feather,
As firm as a rock;
As stiff as a poker,
As calm as a clock;
As gi-eeu as a gosling.
As brisk as a b.-e;
And now let me stop,
Lest vou weary of me.
Aru Orleans Timte-Dtmoerat.
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
The school question Please, may I
g'wout? iMirell Vithen.
Men who are a great deal run after
fugitives from justice. lioitun Courier.
The fireman of a locomotive generally
hns a "tender" disposition. liocltester
Post-Ffpre-iH.
"Can't you work!" asked a lady of a
tramp. "I don't know, ma'am. 1 used
to, but I'm out of practice." Merchant
Trattltr. Maud S. is said to have a stride of fif
teen feet. I low a prize fighter must
envy her when the police are alter him.
JV'eic York JVir.
"Why do I live?" is tho title of a re
ceut poem. A perusal compels us to give
up tho problem as unanswerable. Bur
lington Free Pre.
It would bo tho most natural thing in
the world for the young business man to
put the letters of his "dove" in his pigeon
holes. Uurlingloii Free I're-a.
Basphet ry jam is now made of stewed
tomatoes and hay seed. Give them a lit
tle time and they will make white clover
honey out of bone phosphate. D-timciV
lirene.
"How are collections to-day?" risked
a man of a bill collector yesterday.
"Slow, very slow; can't even collect my
thoughts," was tho reply. Pitt burg
Ch rvit icle.
1 A South Carolina paper tells of a
farmer in that State who bus been at the
plow for sixty-eight years,... It isjjmtjjta.
call tho old man to dinner. Hun iran
ds o Al.'a.
"Johnny," said the Sunday-school
teacher, "what is your duty to your
neighbors?" "To asked them to tea as
soon as they get settled," said Johnny,
LewLtton Journal.
j Landlord "Come, Sepp, that is the .
tenth match I've seen you Mrike. What
have you lost?" Sepp "I'm looking
'for a match that I've dropped on the
floor." Herman Joke.
The public look upon the college yell
as a useless uceoniplishm 'lit, but in later
yeurs, w hen some of the boys get iutothe
itinerant fish business tiiey find it comes
in powerful liundy. Statesman.
More di'umiuurs than ever are out on tba
road
This season, the papers inform us:
And we rise to rem rit, in u mild sort of way,
That the chustnut crop is enormous.
Hotel .If' i if.
"Your bill has been running a long
time," iusiuuutingly reiusmed the
butcher" to Slopay the other morning.
"That's bud," remarked Slopuy, B.viupa
theiicully. "Why dou't you let it walkf"
Wa hihijton t'ritii;
Mrs. Yoiingiiiuter "Do you know,
Emily, I think baby has inherited his
father's hair." Mr. Y. (prematurely
bald) "I'm glad to hear somebody's in
herited it, my love, for I have often
wondered what became of it. 7Vw
a-j'tiiDi.
Each Shop In Paris Has Its Color.
Business people in Paris havo long
since formed a color speech by which
certain trades are easily recognized.
First of all the color shops tue distin
guished by being painted outside iu
squares and stripes ot the most brilliant
colors. Viennese leather, broue and
trinket shops havo beg in to use the
Austrian colors, yellow and blackr then
the Spanish w ine shops uso yellow and
red; the Italian, green, white aud red.
'I he business places where furniture tarts
for removal ure kept aie painted yellow,
as well as the wagons why, not even
thu proprietor know. Pastry shops are
light biow n ouls.de, and w ithin white
aud gold, so that olio is reminded of the
pastry itse f.
.Mi k shops are white aud blue, both
inside and out. Th'.' washerwomen uoW
begin to paint the outside of their iron
ing shops a bright blue, w hile the carts
tluit take the linen to the wash houses in
tho country are bright green. Wine
houses are all painted brown, or a dull
red, which isexa tly ihe color of the vin
ordinaire mixed w ith cranberry juii e and
1 .gwood. Still darker is I tie color of the
.hT.r. oal s!io .. which tuo d ist soourca
ders completely bl ick. l akers are fond
j of 1 ght brown and white, with much
I gilding and large mirrors. --Court
I Journal.
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