RATES OFADVERTISrWO. On. Sqaara, on. inch, o. ta.crtle 1 (.n.S.iuiroiieiDcb,on.inoiiU On. f i"rc, "i" Inch, thrco months Or S lu.iw, one tosh, on. yer 1 Two Sqi.ar. . on. jesr. J Qnortcr Column, one yer Ualf Column, on. year " J On. Column, on. yenr sertioa. M.rrlMt ul notion frU. Job worn eMb. on .IIti7. HE FOREST REPUBLICAN J It pnbllitied .very Wtdaasday, J J. E. WENK. la BmonrbRugh & Co.' BulldliiB KLI1 STREET, T10NKSTA, T. " For EPUBLICAN rmi, 1.60 por Yenr. ' onbwrtT'tlin. received for t shorter period , Mirr. fnnnlh.. r'iom1ni .olteltrd from .0 part of th r. No Mild wtil b. Uk.a of ftuoDtnom nlratloas. TIONESTA, 1'A., WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1888. Sl.50 PEll ANNUM. VOL. XXI. NO. 4. EST JLv lie latest figures show that thero art 1 7, 000 Sunday-School scholnriin the ia. i i Thero In a sad reflection, moralize the - vr York 1'lryram, in reading tlio will the Into Joshua Jones. Hero was a with $7,000,000, nnil yet ho had . near relative In the world to whom ii'd leave his fortune. hn has eight hoinoi for pool (iris, at which breakfast, din i .i cost only $1 a week and t over $1 moro. They are said null managed nnd liberally sup. i by charitable people. -rest mid most influential news Janan, the Siilti-Xiiii Stfim .'''i Ti ', of Tokio, has a of in,0()0 copies daily. Its tilled almost entirely with '' and political essays, with if any, news matter. in promoting the Interests ol ".r'ncturcrg, the Ccrmun railway i s and shipowners havo agreed . the former 5!) percent, nnd the P'T cent., cf the freights on a 1 ' iiM-rned to Melbourne for the - Italian Exhibition of this vear. !'at piecoj of irou shaped like the ; that aro seen on the walls of old hiding are sn'd to be an ancient .f t ho sun. Their origin nviy be back to Asia, where they were in i rc'uistorie time", and the same once 'employed on the olhciul -icily and thu Islo of Man. ; 1ms never had n Speaker of the ! Congress or a President of the I S-nnti., and no Speaker has 1 West of tho Mississippi, ! and Delaware, among tho '.-, hnvo never bceu honored -jtiKorKUip, nnd neither :- Alabama has ever hud -y i:ra, a colore l woman ( eiii'.Tvillo, T nn., recent a long time a missionary in lea, and onco received nnd i tho world renowned ex . -i vin "stone, on one of his most exploring expedition-. Mi f fiucntl many of tho u.itive Afri 'iiguages. t Dover, Me , a jury of twelve men o recently on duty, not one of whom ! tobacco. At a convention of be i t at Watcrville, in thu same State, in of the fifty men who nttendc.l dieted to thoiis'j of the weed. pipor says it is doubtful if iiuy I -it of tho coastry uses so little - M-rins. ii.ee of tho nston'shing wa i i.iMjIU in ill t i y , il is relut - :l"; f.fteeuth century a femal ill young was left on tho I'.nto taiito, in the Atlunt c . vrcw.uf a pusiug iip, ..',..; l timo nilibits were so .in tho island that the settlers :" . ,1 lo abandon it. i. 'or l'dison propos'S to picicnt iialf-do.ea perfected phono . !o t!.e crowned heads of ICiirhpe. . ii i.iuko tho piesuntat!.-.n nddress : in America, and when the instru tiarj delivered, their royal recipients ! have tho (ileastirp of hearing the r.ls of Mr. Kdisou through his won iriul talking machine. fri ' Tni I yle Collins is employed by tue GovrXrtiment at Wah'ugtou ns a reader cf "blind handwriting" in the lead letter o!H e. 6he is au expert at thi business, aud is paid a good salary. Siio claims to read every known langnago "'. a pt Russian and Chinese. Onethou i ! li licrja day usually pass through -'-is, but she only deah with the A correspondent writing from .St. ! i trsburg, liussiu, says: "I saw more men in Petersburg on tho day : my arrival than I h id secti in all the t of Kuidpo during a four months' May. Tho peasants of ll.dgium haven poor reputation for temperance, but I saw more drunken men in Petersburg on -my way from the station to the hotel the i v ot my arrival than I saw in all Del- u expedition is preparing in Kng- for the exploration of the regions f the South I'olo. These are com ivcly unknown. For the ignorance . l i vibts ill regard to them thero are onerous reasons. They are far from lern civilization and oil the com " -rial routes of the ocean. The south irirlions of the two continents areas troio the Antarctic circle as some of ; most thickly sittlcd and highly civilized parts of Kuiopc. For instance, the South Blie'lund Island, whoso dis covery was considered us remarkable, and which are spoken of as in th j South ern I'olar region, are about as far south of the e.,uator as Knglund is norih of it. Most of the islands which have been dis lovered, and which on tho maps seem to form a sort of icy ncekliice about it, arc farther from it tbuin many Northern regions which support consiJurabln populations art from the North Pols. A sunnENDEft I lift my plumed rnp and yield up my sword, My sceptre Is turning to dust; The rnnll co it of minor I always have worn, Is broken and covered with rust. Low -trailing my banner, the lone stnr Is gone, My paraphernalia lies there; A liattlo vim fought, nnd tlie utter defeat Was wrought by a rose in her hair. lirrlha M. Itory, in Current. MY ri.ETTYril.ATE. nv .h i. ian itA.i.ni. It grieves my wife for me to say so, but in those days, back in ltfTO, I was a clown in a circus. 1'eally, I wasn't any thing, but was in a chrystalis state, just as a raindrop in a dusty street can Scarcely be classified, but by a little ex ertion may get into a Mowing gutter, tlien into a nvir, anil so become some lay as much of the Atlantic as any other droi). 1 had been trying to be a nui-d- in, ha 1 g'ven that up to be a concert singer, iiliiiiiiloni'il that to t rn my tut-, ents toward poetry and newspaper writ ing iiml such, until I inincd a merry crowd of lliilieiniaiis nnd lived as they did. Their iratherinirs nnd the tuonev my father left mo both iidcd together. 1 hail written some jokes for a minstrel troupe, and when nothing else suggested itself I applied I i, ft n 'im.u in tin; t mil iiinjr iu .iiiivn tiu and sing mournful ditties (about graves and red roses) in the hi st part, and do a ban jo act later on. The troupe came to gr cf out West, and the best I can say of what followed is that I got home to New York w ithout walkins. o sooner ha 1 I touched llroudway than 1 went mn a new business. I became n clown. I he l.rst aciuaintanee I met offered the j opportunity, saying he was going to Cuba witn a cirrus and that thero was need for onii of those useful butts whom the riiigin ister perpetually cracks with his whip, and whom it is the business of everybody in the sawdust arena to mal treat and deride often witli perfect justice, I used to think before I put on the cap and bells. '(Niine,'' he was kiud enough to add, "you need have no doubts, you nro a natural, instinctive, true born clown, j Ami even ii you w ere not you can luuiaio any and every clow n you ever saw. So pocket your pride, take sixty dollars a wuck, learn your songs nnd twenty very whit-ba red and round-shouldered old jokes, nnd conic along.". The backers and managers were Cu bans and lived in the Sarugossa hotel in rnstFou.th street while they were tit ling out for the voyage. 1 went to live there, also, for everything that 1 under take I do w th intense enthusiasm, nnd I detetm tied to learn Cuban us (juickly as possible and astonish every one by sing ing a song or cracking somo jokes in that lungiiige. In due lime we set sail on a journey I never shall forget. We voyaged in a sailing vessel, through a summer sen, beneath u perpetually cloud less skv. Wo stopp d ut Nas au, and showed there with great success, to iloat i ufteiw.iid for days in b'ue pathways, be twc.ii wlnte l-les fringed witu palms. It ii id e forme to dwell, even for this loving instant on that experience, and yet n was dreamful, so poelie, so utterly celt tin never to be repeated in its sensa tions, now that 1 mn older and more pruct 'rid, that I literally tear myself iroin in ; recollection, mere were many more days of it to come when we skirted llie bold eastern palisaded end of Cuba, and then clung nlmost within the influ ence of ihe breakers as the good bark (Willi the mud Icuiugly unpoetlc name of "The Obijah l.awreiice"l, crept past the fo est clad heights, tho wh to edged bays and cuivjs aud the laughing plantations of the gem of the Antilles. The journey was interrupted by long ''stands'' at Ciuantananio. St Jago nnd i;t Cienf.igoi. It was bold of m to visit these places then for the great revolution was in progressed e. cry thing was unsettled, but never did a rash expei iment meet with richer reward. We played at Colon, in the heart of the isl aid, and theu we readied .Matanzas, where our vessel was to pick us up and take us to Havana. I i t me sav thai up to the moment we left the vessel on thu oth-r side of Cuba I bad constantly sought the companion- I hip of my comet. 1 bad n natural gift for p aving inu-ii al instruments, mid this beautiful comet was the main thing 1 bad saved from tho wreck of my fortunes. I'pou it I improvised what I thought was asvveet, pretty a r a hymn tune, I sus pect it sounded liko and I often, in sol itude, blew its soft, liquid notes from out the hell like throat of my cornet. It was always in solitude, or very softly, that 1 played it, for I deemed it extrava- gant ly sweet and meant some day to lit a hymn to it, adapt a psalm to its notes, or in some way utilize it to give mo fame as I cor.ceilcdiy thought. Alas' at Cien fuegos my cornet was stolen and 1 never had ti e heart to play the tune on any other instrument. One duy in Matanzas I was spending sonic idle hours on an American man-of-war, w hose olli. cis had formed my o q.iaintance. A steamer from New Vork slipped into the harbor just at dusk, and cast her anchors close to the war ship, Theie was tho usunl noi-c aud bustle, and the little harbor boats that swiirm like mosquitoes around such a vessel, and by which passeng. rs are put ashore, ob tained their loads and faded away in tho twilight. At ono moment, three of the-o little boats were moving almost side by siilo across tho water close astern of the vessel I was on. I could scarcely lelieve my ears; I did not cicdit what they told ine yet, there could be no mistake, for it was repeated and curried back to me iu a long drawn whisper of melody my cornet's offspring, my own absolute and unquestionable invention, my pretty hymn tuue. . 1 leaped into my small boat and ordered my man to pull after the other vessels. Then I saw that 1 could not do moie than guc-s at which bout the mel ody had proceeded from. 1 .hanged my coniinuud und pulled for the steamer. Alasl twenty-live women had come on her. no one knew which were in that puiticiilar trio of bouts, and all had Spiiui-h names. I knew that, for I copied every one. After looking them over, to see if perchance any girl or woman Iliad ever knovvu was among them, and find ing none, I determined to keep the list and endeavor to di cover how, iu all the catalogue of mysteries, any one, paiticu larly a Cuban lady, happened to know my tuue. In leisure hours that followed, I .ought information about tvory lady on tho list, nnd learned a little about three or four, but nothing of interest. I was introduced to one who stopped ftt Ihe snmc hotel With me, but she tcld me she never hid lenrned a tune In her life. 1 might hnve forgotten the matter had it not been that one night ns I leaned against n polo nt tho edge of the ring, ready for the time when I should crack my lirst joke, a lady, ore of ft large liarty of people passing by to their seats, hummed a phrase Of that identical tune nlmost literally in my cir. I tinned ipiicklv, the lino of people passed along, nnd then 1 called "madam," "scnora," "senoritn," and sprang over the rope, culling as I ran to attract the singer. Strangely, ns it seems to me, ngnin I could not tell who it was among tho half do.:en women, following one after . ,1.... .w.l1,. flinf li-iil simir that snatch of my musical property. I touched the foremo-t one on the arm ... . - i ., . a .....:...... rt ,, i, 1111(1 sillll, UIU YIMI niMClKillll ,i.i,( her escort, n powerful blaek-mu.Jed , ' i.. !.. i infill uirneK ii'e H in L ( v in inu lie u ,11111 felled me to the sfrouii'l. I i annot de- scribe the excitement that followed; it s lllllli'ai' it liui. .,..... . . . , i... ... ...i,.:: ,i,t' IllililU iiii.iKia t,'I3v 'j ,..,... ...... I was perpetrating nil American jokc. ( Then he calmed the people by saying i that I thought I had rceogni.o I a long J lost s ster. Two days afterward, as I was hurrying In rnneh thn shin which WHS to take US to Unvnnn, not merely a phrase ol that now mysterious tune of mine, but the entire nir rang out upon my cur. My porter was rushing on witJi my bags, a block ahead. Furthermore, my i , . :.. r i. l. ....j oust cioiu;ii; was id emu i'i iiiu im, im, i ."i,.., . ,.,-i,. J,nt 1 had in the world. It was' neccs-ary for ; me to keep ns close to him ns po.-il.lc, jn(lo,.li j wns iready late for the vessel, bile I pnjsed, the last note of my tune " ""'"p ". was sung. I tried to look in the win- VS w'" 'u,ul W'-th ?,,C .t,nKU''' 1 , .lows of the big building from which the , bu nccurate. l ute is m hut tinger. I music issued. I could" not; they wcroj1,"11 ?" revolving chair. I ioint too high. I ran to the door and pounded ; ll,:lt bewitched linger at the keys. It is nn it It whs noenpil hv a ncirro. I . oaL ,.,i !,!. .i,i..i b,.,, ui,,r,i.,rr i ibeM. ! lie grinned nnd snid, in words that 1 cannot repent and that gave me a shock ns severe as any 1 ever felt, that he sup jmil re.,:litli mC( posed some woman locked up in there It was a ja:l. I wat just in time to go aboard, nnd i we reached Havana nnd played in that ! ap tal two weeks. I made valuable friends j in the cily's commercial circles, and j when the show broke up nnd embarked I for New Orleans I re igncd nnd became j the interpreter and Knglish clerk in a (dripping ollicc. I remained thero scv , era! rears, speculated in tobacco and whatever else offered a chance of profit, prospered greatly, and was happier and more comlortable than ever before in my life. F'or a long time, ccrtniuly during two years, 1 constantly compared my list of feminine names wi'.h whatever names of j women I saw on every written or prin:ed , sheet. 1 knew my list by heart ; Mendes, I Alvarez, Ojaro, and so on to the end, i but I never found reason to believe that nnv Bmc i riU, a(.rosj W118 ,mt of one uf I that loud of passengers among which w as i my sweet but practical chorister. ) Iti time 1 fell in love with a charming souni ita in Havana, a lady who did for i mu what Katharine did for Henry Y i charmed ine with her J'ngl'sh tongue for she had been educated in New Vork un,i spoke Knglish perfiv.tlv. In the sweet ecstasy of love that the begot in me I forgot my quest. I lost all euro for my list. I even let my pretty hymn tuac slip from my mind. TnK IMRATh's TALK. My father had determined to return to Cuba. I'njustly accused of connivance with tho leaders of tho insurrection, wretched ot the thought of the ruin into which our lovely home there was falling, he could not resist the impulse to no back. Ho took me from my girl com panions at the convent school nt Mount Sr. Vincent, and, having turned nil his business into money, settled with me nnd our ti links in tho Sarngossa hotel in New York to await the departure of the steamer. It was a bad choice of n hotel. Low characters infested it. My life was wretched while left alone there because of tlip rudeness of thn pi 11 hmWlnr men who idled thiol- time imv in tlm Tioblie rooms. Mv only pleasant leeolleetious of that wretched week are of an Atueri can who played constantly but very sweetly, on a cornet, in suldued tones, in a room overhead. One uir that he played made a deep impression upon me. It haunted me. One evening, as I was listening to his cornet, there was a rap on my door. I opened it and three men walked in. They asked for my father. Their appearance and manner frightened ie. Without many previous words one seized me and tr.ed to throw me on the bed so that my face should full on one of the pillows. The other sprang to open tho bureau draws and the largest trunk. I uttered seveiul piercing shrieks, and 1 distinctly remember hearing the cornet on which wns being played the tune that had fascinated me, thrown ludclyon the floor above. Then there was a rush of footsteps on the stairs and the man who had been playing the instrument burst i ito the room. I do not know what followed, words of I vaguely remember a few assuranco of future safety. spoken in gentle and musical, but inde scribably manly tones, und when next I returned to consciousness I was ill in bed ami attended by my father. Three dnys later l was carried to thestea i er and we set sail for Matanzas. At my curnest crul ways, we have come to the conclu request my father endeavored to find my si"" that they are best plain boiled. The rescuer from the thieves, who. hud cvi- I long, hopping legs must be pullid oil', deiuly sought to rob us of my father's nnd the locust, held by tiie wings, money, but all he ever told ine that he ' dipped into salt and eden. As to flavor, learned was Ihut the ircntleiiiau in oues- . H" insect ta-tcsof vegetable rather tlia'i tion was a low mountebank (so my haughty father called hiur, aim mler of a circus troupe and that he had left the house on the morning after the heroic deed he performed. I had never been in love. Iliad never even had one of tho characteristic love dreams of a maiden. Hut 1 am of an intensely sentimental disposition, and the soft spoken, stalwart, fearless show man filled ray thoughts in many odd hours. His favorito air pathetic und deeply religious floated so constantly through my mind that I set words to it and snug them softly to myself on the starlit nights that followed on the voy age, these were the ballad : words of my , . Ob, bright star Iu voider sky, l oop in thy clear depths I sU Glimmer of gladute. gone by Beaming ol joy yet Tg b., In thy sllv'ry rnys I seem To read a incRsnjje bright, ltbids my nipt spirit ilivnm Angels guide mo by thy light. Oh, shine on, bright star of love, Illumine mv pathway drear. When dark clouds hnng thick above, l.'inelv am 1, without cheer. Vet whene'er my upturned brow Halhesin thy beam so bl ight, l'jie'i soil rnvsw'iiks to my heart Angels giiido inn by thy" light. We reached Matanzas safely, and for s time were very happy. We were joy ously received by our former friends and iclativcs. An Americm circus was in the town, nnd I attended one perform ance in the hope that one feature of it might chance to be a comet pcrfoimance by my unknown benelft' tor. I was dis appointed, of cour e. It would have bce.i one chance in a million. The '"'l" was a fourth ru e performance begun with order owinir to tin insult i one, and t lie extreme dis- olTcrcd bv one 1 f ... t f '"'IToons to a la ly o:.l; a few feet ahead of me. as several belated spei til- tors, of whom I was one, were making their way to the scuts. 1 must pa-s over what followed. Cuba was in her ileep- ' . ... ,. . . . est (listiesi. Ie sullered wi:h tliou- snnds of others; but why recur to that J Our position nnd lortune were restored ; we moved to Havana. Father rc-cstnh-1 shed himself intrude. I was courted by a weilthy gentleman, a member of a large business linn there, and am now n happy wife und mother and a proud American. THE CAPTIUK. The scene is in New York. The time . ., . , . . ... is Friday night, my wife s evening nt '' t " is ''""K. ftu w" 1nrref",t V.i " CV " Vl " i brought ine to the puno, nn instruinent v " "- ,vt. , .u... We have been muiric l aud in tliis coun try two years, and 1 havo never once touched a must til instrument. Now I slowly and falteringly .pick out the tune I I used to play on the cornet. I "Ciood gracious, I.csterl'' my sweet voiced little wife almost screams ns she ; rushes in upon me, '"what did you play i then? ' Where did you ever hear that." ' Why, little (no." 1 reply. "What excites you so? I caught up an old thing I used to piny in my salad days " I Slie almost pushes me from the piano i f-too! ; she poses angelically before the 1 instrument; she str.kes the keys nnd from her throat rushes tho poetry and the music of her ballad and my hymn combined, the poem and mu-ic of the stories we have told above. At first we rush into explanations punctuated with shouts of surpri-o nnd with repented embraces. Then we each begin to think. "Hut darling," she says, "you never told me you were a strolling circus player." ".-we;'th'nrt," 1 replied gravely, "I do not recall your having said you were once in the common jail at Matanns." "I did not want you to know it," she murmurs, "We were suspects. Wo were under assumed names. Our true names were in tlie S) anish 'l!o k of Blood' as traitors. Wc were discovered and shadowed. Father eluded t e watch and went straight to Havana, to the liovernor (ieneial, to prove his right to return. The local authorities believed lis in to be hiriirg and threw me in a dungeon to force me to tell where he wns. He wns protected by tho authorities and he relur.ie I and I was freed." "Sing that song again, dear, plc.tsc," is ali 1 say. So I found the little pirate at last. At'auta Cj m'itu'i n. Ni'ce-slly of Proper .Mastication. The fo id is often wa lied into the stomach with one of the various liquids without mastl uliou, nnd we may with sa 'ctya id great propriety add, that un less there is so me change in the food habit of children, our sue ess in the di rection of tontli preservation vv II I e but limited. Fluids must be restricted at mealtime. Solid fo d must be substi tuted for semi solid, and the eight orten minutes usually occupie 1 iu the con sumption of a meal must be extended to tweuty-llvc or thiity minutes. 1 say constantly to the parents of my young patients: If you want tosive tliei hild's teeth, you must buni-h drink from the table during ir.edtiine; let the children dr nk nil they want before nnd after meals, but at ineftls tho food should bo taken r.s nearly dry as possible, and let the child spend ha f nn hour cr more in its must teat ioti, lit II iigthe Uiturnl se cretions not washing down its food with copious draughts without nil cIVoi t on the part of the teeth to triturate and prepare it for the subsequent digestive process. I want to make it clear that, in my estimation, the loss of function is one great cause of this rapid d"C.iy ol teeth. The healthy or normal develop ment of the teeth is exactly in propor tion to the stimulus of the resistance Unit is offered tut hem in the mastication of food. IU u'tli ,l.,it linn . Locusts us Food. Locusts, says a toui ist in the Fust, nro now a regular part ot the days pmvi sions with us, and are really an excellent "tide of diet. Alter trying them iu se,- of llsh cr I'esb, not unlike green wheat, nnd to us it supplies tic place of vegeta bles, of which we are much in need. For catching locusts the morning is tho time, when they uro hal f-1 ciinuibed by the (old, and the'r wings damp with the (lew. They may theu be found clustered ill hundreds under the desert bu-hes, and gathered without trouble, merely shoveled into a bag or basket. They devour everything vegetable, and are de voured by eveiything animal: larks and bustards, ravens, hawks and bu aids. We as-e I through flocks of ravens und buzzards fitting on the ground gorg d with tin in. The ca ncls munch ilieiu iu j with their fo il; the grayhouiuls run snapping liner inciu uu uuy long, e iung ; us iiniiiv ns liny ( an cati li. 1 lie ISedoinns I , ., , ,, , , . I o!tuu K'vu tlu;m 10 tmm' how, an'1 I I now many tnues buve nothtt tu eai but locusts and camels' milk. HOUSEHOLDS IN HOLLAND. THE .DOMESTIC ARRANGEMENTS OF THE DUTCH PEOPLE. A Pendant Woman' Implement to Keep Out the IMisI Tlio Imun dry, Sei'vnniH and I'ood. Cloths and chamois, brooms and brushes, scrubbing bru-hes for the Hoots, hair brushes for tho wainscots, feather brushes for the wnlls, tooth brushes for the coiner, geese wings for the stoves, hen feathers for cleaning out tho key holes, small sticks of wood for poking out any unhappy article of dust which may have got into tho cracks of the floor, white paste for the windows, red paste for the hearthstones, emery for the steel, nnd several other pastes unci pol ishes ns the occasion may require these arc the implements a Dutch pensant woman uses to clean out ber cottage home. Ilust is her naturnl enemy, she is born into the world to light it, it is her mission, nnd she does no more than her mother and forcmothers hnve done before her. No wonder that such a homo training turns out an exceedingly high class of domestic servants; and yet, the Dutch mistress grumbles. Such is life. Laundry arrangements are most pecul iar in Holland. Aft r having been some weeks in the country, not liking to trouble my hostess, I decided to inter view the housemaid on the subject of my washing. This was luthci a dillicult matter as neither of us comprehended a Word of the other's lnngnnge; however 1 managed to make myself understood by pointing to my linen and rubbing and wringing my hands ns if in the act of wnshinir. She laughingly shouldered my bundled nnd in a few days it wi s re turned to me. Tho payment was made by my holding out my hund with seviral guldens iu it, from wh'ch she took two, a little less than a dollar for about three doen garments, but what was my con sternation on opening the bundle to lind my clothes all rough dried. A washer woman in Holland, means litera'ly a washerwoman, aud nn ironer is quite a different person. 1 made no complaint; but for the test of my visit to that house, a handkerchief folded carefully between the leaves of a book and placed un der my pillow was a nightly practice, and for the rest, I wore them rough dried. Later on 1 ascertained that in many Dutch bouses the washing is done out, and the ironing by the household servants. The ironing room is generally nt the top of the house, fur away fioni all fumes of cooking, nnd kitchen du-t, a plan worthy of imitiation. Wa-hing is not done weekly as, in America, but allowed to accumulate for weeks, sometimes even longer, ui unhealthy ctstom; but in this ns well ns in many other respects the Dutch can hardly be ca'led a clean natiou, from a hygienic point of view. AVilii them it is dust, dust, nnd again dust. Often the tinderseivants, such ns scul lery maid, nurse maid, etc., do not sleep in tlie house. 'Ibis gives more space and room for the family. These girls come iu by the day, sleeping at their ow n homes at night. All servants iu Holland dress extremely neat, generally in lilac print dresses, white muslin cups, and iare,c white aprons. The same dress is worn in th'! street as in the house. If the weather Is cold a slum I is thrown over the shoulders. They do a good deal of the household shopping. It must be indeed delightful for the Dutch mistress to have iJet.scy Jane nil ready dressed to inn her little errands, instiad of having to watt an hour or more while Iletsey .lane curls her "bung" and bedecks herself withchc;p finery. This is a good arrangement for maid as well us mistress, for with the former it breaks the monotony of tlie ria'ly round, gives her n little blow of fresh air, bes.des the opportunity of a slight flirtation with the butcher's boy or tlie green grocer's a-sistuut. A strange h u ehohl custo n in Holland is the custody of the "guest, money" by the mistrcs'. Faeh gtle-t is, a , ill Fng lanri, expected to fee the house ser.au s. In Holland this money is ut once handed by the recipient to the lady of the hou-e, w ho at certain sens ins of the year, such ns Cbr'stmas nnd Faster, divides it equally am mgst all her sta't. Not a bud plan when ore thinks it over, but stait ling at tirst to the guest. And now for Dutch food. All food is good in Holland, nil cooking excellent, beef and mutton even better than iu Fngland, vegetables iu abundance, liut tcr is very good and plentiful and is used without stint, but everything is spoilt by being served cold, Itich dishes which would be most appetizing were they eaten pipit g hot, become I cpul-ive. iiidigestablemn ses of greaso when served from a cold dish on a stone cold plate. During the whole of my stay In Holland I never once saw a dish covered or a plato Lcntcd, Cakes are a spec'alty with the Dutch. I'.iieh town bus one or more of its own, and it was interesting to trace the ances try of many of our American ones. Watltes met ine at a K cuius at the Hague. The Knek.'a which is to be found all over Holland and is in fact the Du ch word for "little cake" is actually nnd ctynioliiglcally the ancestor of the .New Fngland cookie. Doughnuts I met everywhere, though I cannot imagine from where they got their ugly name ol "dough nut." Iu Holland they are called Suritseii nnil in French ( iiiiaila where I they are a sort of national cake, they are known by tho mime of Cro ;uignoles und sometimes llcignet, wbii h latter name is simply the Flench for fritter. I imagine that iu one way and another we owe a go d deal of our cooking to Holland. O'iW li ttk f imj. A llcnietly for biliousness. First, on gett;ng tin and going to bed, drink plenty of (old water. Fat tor breakfa-t, until tlie bilious attack jiassei, u little stale bread, fay one slice, and a Iiiece, half as large us your hand, of loiled b un beef or m itton. If the weather is warm, tike instead u little cracked wheat or oatmeal porridge. For dinnertiike the same thing. Co without your supper, llxercise freely in tlie open uir, producing perspiration once or twice a day. Iu a few days your bil.ousnc-s is all gone. This re-u t will come, o en though the b:li il-ness is one of the spring sort, and one with which ou h i e from year to yei.r been inueh a liii ted. Heib drinks, bitter drinks, lager beer, alo. whisky, and a half a docu other spring medicines ilij simply barbarous. U-.alt 't uni Hum, HOUSEHOLD AFFAIKS. I'mmes for riiotop;rnpli. A fancy exists for making nnd draping frames at homo for photographs and en gravings. Any old piece of quaint bro cade, broeatelle or embroidered silk i9 used, finished off with ft fancy bit of luce or braid. The great object is to get old fashioned looking colors and patterns and bits of odd hico for the corners that will look as if placed there to bide the joins, although there nro none, ns the whole framo is cut from and coveted with one piece. l'liiin le'p'iia Tim -i. On StarcJiin and IronlnR. Seeing nn old Scotch lady re cntly ironing fine shirts and vests exceedingly well, a lady wiitei the J'sniri'' f 'irm r that she inquired hoiv she starched them. She said: "1 do not u-c boiled starch any more; no need of it. F'or live shirts 1 take four tenspoonfuls of starch and one of powdered borax. They will be pleniy stiff enough starched with cold starch, nnd it is the most economical way. if I want to make the bottoms of white fhirti very stiff, I put borax into boiling starch, making n little suds of white soap to wet up the starch.'' I never did up skirts and collars so satis factorily, as since I have followed tho Scotch lady's way. Some of my neigh bors have also tried both of the above methods of washing and starching, and rcnort a success. I thiuK "elbow grease" has a great deal to do in polishing bosoms, aud I have not much to use in this way. I have a bosom board, with a stretcher, which holds ihe shirt smoothly before me. Household Hints. Honey in a little water is excellent to smooth the bands. Tea stains may bo removed by using clear boiling water. Suit (ish are quickest and best fresh ened by soaking iu sour milk. A wart can be removed by touching it several times a day with caster oil. Set a dish of water in tho oven with cake when baking, and it will seldom scorch. Warm soapsuds, not too hot, from tho washttibs, will make house plants grow very fast. Washing in cold water when over heated is a frequent cause of disfiguring pimples. F'rcsh meat beginning to sour will sweeten if placed out of doors in the air over night. To clean a porcelain kettle, boil peeled potatoes in it and it will be as white as new. Kerosene oil will soften boots nnd shoes thttthayo been hardened by water, nnd render tlcm as pliable as new. lllnnkets and furs put away well sprinkled w ith borax and done up air tight will never be troubled with moths. To avoid noise in n sick-room, poke the lire with a wooden stick and put on the coal done up in parcel-, in news papers. Two apples kept in the cako box will keep moderately rich-, cake moist for a great length of time, if tho npplc-i nrc renewed when withered. A polish for furniture maybe made from half a pint of linseed oil, half a pint of old ule, the white of an egg, o le ounce of spirits of wine and one ounce spirits of salts. Mi ike well before using. Hold raisins under water while ston ing; th's prevents stickiness to the hands, and e'eanscs the ru sins. I ut the quantity of rai.-ins needed in a dish with water to co. er, stone them before removing- from water. Every housekeeper should examine tho table linen for fruit stains, winch will be"onic fixed if they me put into suds. I'laeo the stain over u bowd and pour boiling water thtough it from tie kettle; it will remove it at onco. To prevent salt from congealing and sifting from the cellars yo.i can use a little corn starch with the salt; n salt ipoonftil of corn starch to about two salt cellars of suit. The sta ch absorbs the dampness, nnd the salt sifts more ; easily. To wash lace or fine cmb oidery with ' out wear, rub white soap on the toiled ! parts, then cover w ith soft water and set for twelve hours in sunshine, then rinse iu clear water, pull out each point with ; the fingers and pin Uj on a pillow ot j sheet upon the carpet to dry. I Iteci.n--. j llai-cd Wattles. One quart of flour, one pint of sweet warm milk, two eggs, one tablespoon of melted butter, one I tnblepoon of suit: one half cup of y cist ; ! bake in greased wntlle ir.ms. j Apple Marmalade. -Take any kind of sour apples, pare ami co:e it, cm; (tit them iu small pieces and to every pound of upples put three quarters of a pound of sugar: put them in a preserving pun and boil them over a slow lire until they are reduced to a tine pulp: then put in jelly jars and keep iu a coo! place. llof Ylfs.'. Iioil one ha'f cup of hops in two quirts of water twenty min utes: strain one-half of it on three pints of silted flour, and when the other half is cool, mix slowly with the paste; stir in half a pint of fre-h breweis' yeast. b, t tic and cork loo ely, and let ferment till it ceases to wor'i ; next day cork tightly nnd set in a cool, dry place. Make fresh every week. Al'fi i:s with K. Peel and core n many tipple-, as is required. Put them in a baking dish with a lit lie lemon peel anil a syrup of sugar mi l vv.i'er; ( over the di-li, and let the apples bake veiy slowly until done, but they mil I not be the lea I broken. I luce the apples on a dish, t,ll the middle of each with bo led rice, and on tho top put a dried ( heiry or a little preserve. Put boiled I ice around the the apples, and pour over them the syrup m which th y were cooked. AiMu.ct in Amiiish. Work a quart of asparagus tops, boil fifteen tni.i utcs und drain. Cut the tops off a d i.i n stale light role', remove the crumbs und set the i ni-ts in the oven, laying each top by tlio role from w hi, h it was tiiken. Put a pint of milk on to boil, beat four eggs light, and stir them into the boil ing milk; when thick, udd a ti aspnonful of butter, with salt and pepper. I hop the asparagus tops, and add to milk. Take the roles fioni the stove, file with the mixture, put tho tops on, aud ssrve ot THE INDIANS' VALLEY The firo sinks low, the driftinS imoke Dies softly in the autumn hne, And silent are tlie tongues that spokei The speech of other days, (lone, too, tho husky ghosts whose feet Hut now yon listening thicket stirred; Vnscnred within its covert meet . The squirrel and tho bird. . The story of tin- put Is told, But then, O Valley, swe t and lonI tilnn of the Rainbow! thou shall hold Its romance ns thine own. Thoughts of thine nncient forest prime Shall sometimes haunt thy sirtuiuev dreams. And simps to low poetic rhyme, The music of thy streams. When Indian summer flings her cloak Of brooding azure on the woods. The pathos of a vanished folk Shall tinge thy solitudes. The blue smoke of their flros ones more Far o'er the hills shnll seem to rinj, And sunset's golden clouds restore Tho red man's para lisj. Strange sounds of a forgotten tonxu Shall cling to many a crag and cave, In wash of falling waters sung, Or murmur of the wave. And oft in midmost bush of night, Shrill o'er tlie.ileep-mouthed cataract's roar. Shall ring tho war cry from the height That woke the wilds of yore. Sweet Yale, more peaceful bend thy skies, Thy airs are fraught with rarer balm; A iitople's busy tumult lies Hushed in thy sylvan cnlm. O swoet thy peace! while fancy frames Foft idyls of thy dwellers fled They loved thee, called thoe gentle names, In the long summers deal. Quenched is the fire; the drifting smoke Has vanished ill the autumn linze; Gone, too, O Yule, the simple folk Who loved thee in old days. But for their snkes th-ir lives serene Their loves, perchance as sweet as ours O, bo thy woods for nyo more green, And fairer bloom thy flowers! David Gray. lll'JIOK OF THE DAY. An open letter O. A cereal story A lie about n big grain crop. A "joint"' resolution Tho Chineso must go. A queer man A man who makes coun terfeit money. It's hard to get the hole truth in the mining districts. A blind teacher would naturally havo bud pupils. U Otici Jii-.: Society bus been likened to a pie Wo can dispense w ith no part so easily as the upper crust. "I'm on my lust lnp," as the tomcat said when he finished a saucer of milk. JJuiimi'lf Hretie. A Yermout woman broke her jaw, and her husband facetiously called her tho "ex-speuker." JSiiiii'jVm t'ree-Prem. There is something peculiar about gravity in tho earth it attracts, whllo in man it repels. Jliu'jhiiuiion Leader. In the West. She "Do you over sco a liner sunset than that in tho East;" lie "No. The sun never nets iu the Fast." Life. "These arc my jewels." quoth t hen, collecting her chicks. "Of yoiJU own setting, too," quacked the duck, as she waddled away. A tender ballad a Texas composer, l They Creinato the just published by ntitled "Why Did Old lluir ?cfR.', 1) niri'lf Jir: if. A citicn w ho insisted that he could easily live on one meal n day afterwards privately explained that he meant oat meal. ((('ill'. "Yes, sir," said Popinjay, emphati cally, "tiraball is a man of limited means, but unlimited meanness." Bur Ln'jh ii Free Ye.i. Notwithstanding tho fact that Mrs. Cleveland i a perfect lady.it must be confessc 1 that she gives a gicat many people tlie shake. Kjiurfi. He "How do you find tho oysters, Miss Smith:'' She "They nre simply delicious, mid I a n awfully hungry too." He (to waiter) "Hring another plate of crackers." She bud worked the "I'll-be-a-sister-to you chestnut on b in. "Thanks, Miss Smith," he said, groping blindly for his bat. "but 1 have two elder sisters al ready." -''. "And why are you so anxious to learn French, robin ." inquired Fiatherly.vvho was making an evening call. "l!ecrj, when inn uiid s ster Clara talk about.,, they always spcik in French, und 1 want to know what they say.1' Ann 1VSki. When cup il sd u is Are shot at heurts (A tact thai iiiii't h-doubted this is) Tho.igh uiinin well Yi t. tooth to t II, llusulwuys unking mUses Mrs. y.'osf Courier. Teacher "So ) 't do a simple si'in in ntitliinctii let nie explain it to vou. Siiipiec t of you have togi tlur forty e glit u ;s, thirty-two peaches and sixteen meldy i, what would each one of you gcVf' "Cholera nimbus," replie I Johnny. Hire Jlita. A profound scientist of the nineteenth century living in llo-toa had a smoking chimney in bu house. After be hud spent ne illy --liid for various devices to cure it a ragged tramp came along and .suggested that he build it six inches h ghcrx which was done and tho evil criidicutid. -I .V. t Fete I'et . "What's the tumble now.'" asked a nervous pu-scngcr on a new Dakota road, as the train ca ne to a sudden hall. "Oh, nothing much," suid the brake man, strugg.ing to get away, "the freight ahead of us got off tile, track and run into the depot, knocking it clear out o' time, and our engineer can't tell just where the town site is." W AII. OS TilK ItKJKCTHn. Alas! Aud ahe k' And oh illowl Aim! And oho' And ohel Oh g,KhicV ( h giii. ioiis! I Hi mercy I And uUo boo hu it And hey, ley t Ab nn ! An I o!i mv ! And oh sorrow! And liken s-i oh grid And oil woe' Well a duy! -Murrv! ...uu is! And confusion! Moreover, oh dear! And heij;ho! l.uck-irdav! Oh tliund-r! IWdition! (.ni eiioni I liristni.ts! And s IcmIii' liivat Bcott! Odds lite! OU distraction! lliuii: lU ,!irl! I um nil out ot Uieuth! 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