RATES OF APVtWTIa Oat Eqiua, n. loch, oo taeertlom--, 4 1 On. fkpir, owl loch, eee Bonta. One Sqosre, one Inoh, three monUs. ........ Or.e 8qoare, one InoU, one Tr.. IS Two Bqnsrre, eoe year. 1 Quarter Column, one year. M0 Half Colore, OM year..t...........-. One Colama. ens lew.-.. ....lot Lw-el effrertl mtt tea oerte per lle sack ta Mrtiou. Marriage u4 seats notices fnBs. All Wile for jnrtj silTertlwimentj eoneetei Itrij. T.mpormrT adveniemesU M Se peU IS draaee. Joe work cash M teuvery. rfflS FOREST REPUBLICAN U soWliined every Wtdndf , ky J. E. WENK. Offloe la Bmearbaugh & Co.'a Building XUI BTRKET, TIONESTA, Fa. PUBLICAN Terms, ' l. BO per Year. w i(ih.-.rlrtimn received for a shorter period . liiitT ollfltea' from H prti of tto tra r. f--ce wUl be Ukea of uoajmous VOL. XXI. NO. 32. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, DEC. 5, 1888. SI. 50 PER ANNUM. JKJh The convict lcnse system provails In ten Southern States. Forests are springing up on the aban doned mines and ruining towm in Cali fonua."J The Mexican Government Is preparing to introduce the postal money order sys t!m into the country. It has been shown that the. ratio of prUoncrs in cities is two and o-e-fourth Union fts "great as in the country at largo. The first petroleum spring In England ha jut been discovered near North, nick. A brewor's well hn ceased giv ing water, and yield a copious supply m1 oil. The Italian brigands prefer to capture i.ii Knglishman if possible, and their '.. coud choice Is an American. They aro " nltout the - only ono any considerable mm of money can bo sqacezed out of. The Chinese Government has refused in English firm permission to sot up --.lioa cleaning machinery in that coun- y. The decision is made, that foreigners ivo no right to start manufactories on liinese soil. The Czar, as a memorial to his lato .rents, bai dovoted $750,000 and an into .worth $200,0J0 a year to the "nidation and maintenance of an In . itulion for the blind at St I'etersburg, j be called the Alexandor-Marien In- ituto. .V few years ago the Argentine Ito !ie did not raise wheat enough for . consumption. Last year it im .d T.nnn.noo bushels. Immciiso .. is of j ustuiu a.c being converted Into m land, and the country Is becoming ;--cnt grain-growing region. i hey havo just tal.cn a census in the j'si Capital of St. Petersburg, re are nearly a million of pcoplo 0 ; but abovo the ago of sixteen years 1 aro four males to every three Vs. The Cincinnati Emjuirer layt M to be a good place to marry irR congress of the advocates of .i), recently held in Vienna, the ut was brought out that there t present throughout the world leinutories, most of which are in nited States, twenty in Italy, and ich in Germany, (Gotha,) England, a and Switzerland. h as been assorted that tho human e has been heard across (ho Strait of ; altar, a distance of ten miles. At a iticnl meeting held near Portland, recently, scnteuccs of tho speech ado by one of the gent,!eenrpeukiug i the open air are said to havo been uu'y heard a mile away, ' he news that the Mikado of Japan i become addicted to alcohol, wbihs- llmpororof China is devoting most . his time to opium smoking, in not sat factory. Kalakaua is still playing ukur with disastrous results to his Na tional Treasury. Really, observes the (ir,tj,fiif, those remote potentates seem to need the services of an all-round re former. ' The recent docrce in Franco requiring all resident foreigners to givo an ac count of themselves to the Prefect of Police, is aimed at the vast influx of the lowest strata of society from ail nations, who aro gradually making France an asylum for the thieves, vagabonds aud outcasts of othor countries. Moreover, most of these for' 1 tramps come from two nations wK? c'rauce most hutus Germany and ls The famous toad which was dug out alive in Englaud from a stratum of clay belonging to the glacial period died at the end of three days. A local surgeon cut a slit across the membrane which closed the toad's mouth in order to food it, and the poor butrachian had not enough vitality to bear the operation. Much interest is manifested in the toad, which has been presorved in alcohol in t'.:e Greeuoc'x Museum. An article In the North China Ileridd upon Chinese benevolenco shows that it is very generally prau4ed. 'Whenever great floods or famines occur great soup kitchens are established. There are so cieties to provide colfins for tho e who cannot buy them, for gathering human bones which have become exposed and giving them suitable burial, for distrib uting plasters and drugs, and for pre senting "virtue books." Mrs. Borrenson, of , Michigan, declares the New York World, is a woman of resources. She refused to allow the laying of a railroad track past her house at Munisteo and sought to drive the work men off at the muzzle of a revolver. As the men proved to be proof against feai of a bullet, Mrs. Sorrenson brought out a rocking-chair, placed it across the ties, took her knitting aud held the fort for s whole uight and day. Of course, there was no chance of tiring out a Michigan woman supplied with a rocking chuii and knitting needles. So, after forty 'eigut hours' delay, the fair obstructionist was curried to prison, and the rails were laid. REUBEN JAMES. Three ships of war had Preblo when he loft the Naples the ra, (ml the mighty king of Naples lent him seven galleys more; And never since the Argo floated in the mid dle 9uch noble mon and valiant have sailed in company As the men who wont with Problo to tho siege of Tripoli. Stewart, Bninbrldge, Hull, Decatur, how their names ring out like gold! Lawrence, Porter, Trippo, Macdonough, and a score as true and hold; Every star that lights tboir banner tells the glory that they won; Out one common sailor's glory is the splendor of the sua Reuben Jamoe was first to follow when De catur laid aboard Of the lofty Turkish galley and in battle broke his sword. . Then tho pirn to Captain smote him, till his blood was running fast, And they grappled, and they struggled, and thoy foil lieside the mast. Close behind them Reuben battled, with a dozen, undismayed. Till a bullet broke bis sword arm, and he dropped the useless blade. ' Then a swinging Turkish sabre clove his loft and brought him low, Like a gallant bark, dismasted, at the mercy of the foe. Little mercy knows the corsair; high his blade was raised to slay. When a richer prize allured hint where De catur struggling lay. . "Help!" the Turkish leader shouted, and his trusty comrado sprung, And his clmnar like lightning o'er the V ankee Captain swung. Reuben James, disabled, armless, saw tne sabre flash on high, paw Decatur shrink be tore it, heard the pirate's tauntin; cry, Saw, In half the time I tell it, how a sailor brave and true Still might Bhow a blooty plrteto vrSat n dying man can do. Quick he struggled, stumbling, sliding in the blood around his feet, As the Turk a moment waited to make ven geance doubly sweet. 6wift the sabre fell, but swifter bent the sailor's head below, And uiwn his fenceless forehead Reuben James received the blow) Bo was saved our brave Decatur; so the common sailor died; Bo the love that moves the lowly lifts the great to fama and prido. Yet we grudge him not his honors, for whom love like this had birth. For God never ranks His sailors by the register of earth I Jawt J. Hoche, in Boston Post. MURIEL "Muriel, Muiicl." Tho tone was sham and authoritatlvn. Find Madam Thome's smooth, white brow contractcu into a half frown as she lonned out of tho window and repeated her imperative summons. A foam bubble sparkling on the break er's brim a buttnrily poising in midair a thistledown careening on the breeze how shall I descr ble the airy lightuess, tho perfect grace of Muriel's motion as sho came dancing, lloating up tho broad lawn and stood before the open window 1 "Well, auntioi" "Como in, Muriel; I wish (o hsve a little riouLoonvcrsation with you." Thelinipid gray eyes shot one re bellious tihsli from under their silken lashes, and the rich led mouth took un uumistakablo pout. "Js it about Lawyer Grant:" 'Vcs, Muriel. That worthy gentlo man has magnanimously overlooked your scornful recofitiou of his avowal of love and renews his oiler of hand, heart and foitune." "And if I refuse." "Then tho mortgage which he holds on liuckdule will be foreclosed immedi ately and you aud I will be homeless out casts." "Aud so you propose to sell mo to Lawyer Grant i" Kven madam's well-bred composure was not quite proof nguiust the bitter scorn in the question, aud sho llushcd a little as she replied: "Uon't bo vulgar, child. Mr. Grant offers you a home, riches and an honor ablo name." 'Au oiler that I despise and reject." Madame Thome's snowy eyelids wont down, and her guowy bauds went up, in token of her horror. "lugrate! Traitor 1 Isheltcrel and cared for you in your infancy, kept you from the almshouse; aud now you will not make this trilling sacrifice to save my old age from want." '.'Not to save your life, or mine I" The gray eyes glittered now, and Uie quick blood bin nod like a crimson stniu in eithor girlish cheek. 'Wot for your sake, Aunt Murynor to save the wholo world, would I' Tis degrade myself." Mrs. Thorm 'old blue eyes fastened themsehes oi;.l Uriel's glowing face with pitiless scum. "Will you tell me, Muriel Vance, how you propose to support yourself! You have no money, no accomplishments and no special aptitude, that 1 have yet discovered, for inuking yourself useful iu any way whatever." Muriel gave a little sigh. "I am a sud scapegrace, aunty I acknowledge it. But it is said that there is a special I'rovidenco that watches over fools. Ou that I place my reliance. Tut there, 1 see that you aro angry, so I will say no more." And to Mrs. Thome's iulinito disgust she bcgr.a caroling a wild, rythmic melody, her little slippered feet keeping time, as the whirled down the long piazza iu n perfect mUe of whirls, pir ouettes and impromptu "j.a tie jcucina t'on," till at last, with a grand flourish, she stood before her uuut, flushed, pant ing aud smiling. . "I danced away all my ill humor, dear auntie -'' "hncore! encore." cried a wheezy, cracked voice behind her, aud Muriel turned to seethe wrinkled fuce and leer ing ejes of I awyer iirant. "A light heart makes light feet," ho said, chuckling aud rubbing his withered Lauds ia testacy;" ' eh, Miss Muriel!" Jli.t Murirl had fled to her room, a secluded little retreat in a remote wing of the great rainbliug fui mhouse. Wher,, after au hour's patieut watch ing from her window sho had seen her antiquated lover disappear down the shaded path that led to the highway,she prepared to go down to the parlor to practice some new sonirs. But to her dismay sho found the door fast locked and herself a prisoner. That night, while sho slept, ft plate containing food was placed iu her room, iiuu wuu li wuy Blip ui jmpur, ijuunug these words : You shall never leave this room until you yield to my wishes. Mem K.I, Thornr. To which she returned this character istic answor: Without wishlnn to be impertinent, I may say that there is a fair prnaimct of my outliv ing rjotn or you. 1 dory you, uniu your death shall release me. MiniKL Vami. For four days she bore her captivity admirably, hhe leaned from her win dow and sang snatches of gay songs when sho was sure that her aunt was where the could hear her, and affected the utmost nonchalance when she saw Mrs. Thornc and I awyer Grant watch ing her from the lawn. Iiut on the after noon of the fifth sho began tq give way,, and longed with all the intensity of her Dhture for freedom. Mio saw tho shining river, free and unfettered, ..winding between the feath ery willows that lined its banks, and could almost hear it as it gurgled over its pebbly bed whore tho cool woodland shadows lay thickest; and the' words of the bravura sho was singing died in an inarticulato sob, though her aunt was in full view, strolling among tho flower beds on tho lawn. ; ; At last she wiped away her tears and clinched hor teeth firmlv together. "All's fair in lovo and war," sho said resolutely; "and a masterly strategy must accomplish what resistance would fail to do, even if it does involve some deception." clio watched long and anxiously for Lawyer Grant that night. Finally, when tho shadows of tho gloaming lay thickly among tho tr?es, sho saw a tall form coming up the path toward too front door. bile leaned from the window and cnlroa to him in a suppressed voice: "Go to tho kitchen porch and get the long ladder you will find there. Climb to the balcony undor tho window at the back of this room ; I wish to speak ' to you." ..... A few moments elapsed and Muriel heard cautious footstor on iho balcony, aud then a light tap jn the w.'ndow. Hie gently opened it apd stepped out. Without raising her Ces 'he began a faltering voice: "Lawyer Grant, when 1- rcqufsted your presence here I intended to propose an elopement, trusting that an oppor tunity of regaining my freedom might occur. But I cannot do it. Not even to regain my liberty will I sully my lips with a lie. But, oh, sir, think of my cruel punishment and pity mo. Think of one who has always been free and un trameled as the very birds condemned to this captivity, and if you have a human heart intercede with my nunt. Think " but sobs and tears finished the prayer she would have uttered, as she threw herself at his feet. The tall form came out of tho shadows, aud as the light from tho room beyond fell full upou him Muriel startod to her feet in mute surprise. It was a stranger's face she gazed upon a face which invited eonfldonco, nevertheless. There was something about the mischiovous gray eyes, clouded just now with a slight shade of seriousness an expression about tho finely-cut mouth, which, though parted at that moment with a smile of blended amusement and pity, soeuicd to bo irresistibly at tractive. "Do not distress yourself, I beg," said he, as ho gazod upon her agitated countenance, "and believe me when I say that I will willingly afford you all the assisUiuco in my power. But before you accept my assistance let mo explain my pre ence in this hou e. My name is Kenner Kosmore and I came here to night to see Lawyer Grant, relative to ceitain uucluimed estates in Connaught, Ireland. If ono Michael Vance, who enme to this country twenty years ago, since deceased, died without hoirs, the Iiroperty reverts to me, as next of kin. have written to Giaut repeatedly, but failing to get a satisfactory reply, camo over to see if I could not find more definite information regarding the heirs of this Michael Vance, who had the honor of being sixteenth cousin to my step mother God ro-t hor soul 1" "Michael Vance!" cried Muriel, her embarrassment lost in surprise. "Why, that was my father's name.!' "And his birthplace (" "Killaroy, Ireland. "Accept my congratulation," said Bossmore; "for you are not only the 1 most beautiful young lady iu America, , but tho richest heiress in Ireland. And j I hope," hecont nued, as he saw the rosy flush upon her check, "that siuco you havo deprived me of my inheritance, you , will at least grant me the liberty of a kinsman's kiss. By my faith, it would be cheap as the price of the Hossmore es- tates even, I assure you it is a national ; custom." j Muriel's refusal was accompanied with a laugh of mirthful incredulity that was so irresistibly contagious that the 1 blended tones of merriment reached the , two plotters below. i We pass over madame's incredulous scorn and until belief, Lawyer Urant s gratitude at escaping the cowhiding he so richly deserved aud the details of the courtship between liossmore aud Muriel. But when the sumachs burned like fiery torches in the woodland glades sht loved so well, and hickories aud maples shone golden in the uplands, Muriel, hei claim to the Hossmore estates duly rec ognized, became Mrs. Fenner Hossmore. And I am bound as a veracious chroni cler to record the fact that neither party ever regretted iu A Sarcastic Host.- . A hotel i l Nantucket has some original rules for warning guests in "ca-e ol tire". "Notify the clerk at once he will be asleep in room No. 7'.', just back ol the o'.lice. Notify the proprietor. Notifj the uight watchman. He will be asleep, us usual, somewheie on the premises. I'etnru to .your room and throw you! trash and stuff out of the wiudow; you cun repack them on the piazza or in tht back yard. Now try and discover whert the fire is. In Dinety-nino times out ol a hundred it will be iu some neighbor in;', ouilding, not ours. Dou't forget to sl'jiek all the time. It will be very to.':S4.ingi nervous peoplo. JVVi York l'ott. THE FRENCH EXECUTIONER AN INTERESTING CHAT WITH THH HEADSMAN OF FBANCB. Living In Strict Retirement Tb Ghastly Implements of III Pro fession How He Dons His Work. Few peoplo have ever seen the public executioner of France, soys a 1'aris let ter to the New York 1VWW, and it is no easy matter to find him, for tho police refuso to givo his address, and his name is carefully omitted from the d' 'iry. Tho dreaded "Monsieur do Pari he is called by tho lower classes, i v evcr, M. Dicbler, and he rents a at No. I) Hue Vic d'Azur, a squalid littlo street half an hour's walk away from lioquette Prison. This man, who con ducts tho ceremonies in which the gullotine plays tho most prominent part, is a very quiet person of a retiring dis position, who dreads notoriety aud avoids contact with his neighbors as much as possible. There is nothing in tho headsman's nppearance nor in his home to donote his ghastly office. After some diiliculty tho World cor respondent secured tho address of M. Deibler and found that the headsman was not indisposed to tell tho details of his unenviable profession. - lie could riot, however, le induced to exhibit even privately the guillotiue, which he re ferred to as "the machine." Ho said: "Tho machine is ready mounted for U90, and , I may bo summoned off at any momcut. I usually get twenty-four hours' notice in Taria and moro than double that time for the departments, but I hold myself constantly in readiness to start off at a moment's notice. As ft rule I have to spend at La lioquette the whole night preceding tho execution. A great deal has to bo done in a very Bhort time. Soon as the two black vans arrivo one containing the 'woods of ju-tice' and the other destined to convey the body of tho culprit to Ivry Ccmetory I have to superintend the installation of the machiue, which takes upward of an hour. The fixingof the knife and of tho apparatus itself is an intricate job. There must be no bitch at tho last. Tho instrument is invariably placed on five stones just outside the central door of the Koquctte Prison. "While I am fixing the machine," continued the headsman, "The Abbe Fa n re arrives. The Abbo Fauro enters Boquctte and gives spiritual comfort io tho doomed man. After being left alone with the chaplain for a short timo tho culprit is handed over to my assist ant, who brings him from his coil down the stono stairway which lends to tho Depot the prisoner's last station on earth before reaching the machine where ho is seated on a wooden stool, and his toilet begins. This doesn't tako much time, for his nair and beard were clipped on entering the prison. Tho man is pinioned, his shirt stripped of its collar, and he then goes iorth to his death by the central door, whon ho is strapped to tho fatal plank which, top pling over, brings his neck into the half circular p.irtion of a ring thnt I secure be fore springing the knife. Soon as 1 touch a button in one of tho upright posts the knifefallsand the head is received in atin vessel containing sawdust. Tho body is unstrapped, put inlo a coffin, with tho culprit's heait between his legs, and the remains aro then driven off to Ivry Ceme tery, whero they are buried." "Ooos life endure any time after tho head is severed i" "No, 1 -think not," the execution re plied, reflectively. "The grcut loss of blood produce syncope. Besides " Here M. Peibier went out of the room and brought in a large black leather box, which ho p'accd on tho table, On raising the lid tlicro appeared tho bright steel knife of oblique shape which is fixed to the erosa beam of. tho guillotino at each execution, and which M. Deibler carefully watches over arid cleans at home. He took it out of its soft red lining the other nfternoon, stroked it with bis hand as if to brush the dust off its highly-polished surface, and, turning itoversuid: "There; look at the back of this knife. It is heavily weighted, you see, to make it fall swiftly aud with tremen dous force when 1 touch tho spring. Now, this is the reason why I think that all consciousness departs from the brain of a man after tho fall of the head. At tho same instant that tho neck is sovered by the blade, tho weighty portion strikes so fcurful a blow on the occiput that the cheek is often bruised from the fall of the head into the tin vessel containing tho sawdust. Yet tho head is only raised a few iuclies abovo the tin vessel which receives it. Such a blow is, in my opinion, sulicient to drive out any ray of memory, reflection or real seusi bility that may linger, ufter the decapi tution.iu the bralu of the most obdurate, bull-headed criminal." The Gull SI renin. Tho main Gulf Stream is said to end on the south side of tho Banks of New foundland; at all events, the stream di vides there, tho larger branch crossing the Atlantic northward to the coast of Northern Kurope, passing the North Cape and becoming uudstinguihablo near Nova Zcmbla. The smaller branch crosses eastwnrd, curves southward be tween the Azores aud Portugal, sending out smaller branches into tho Irish and Mediterranean sea's, and joins the north equutorial current', with which it returns to the Gulf of Mexico, aud so completes the circuit. Thus tho most northern pyint leached is near Nova Zcmbla, the most southern near the equator. It toiuhes the I'uitcd States, jsewfound lund, the British Isles, Norway, Port ugal aud Morocco. The equatoriul cur rents touch the eastern coast of South America ad the western coast of Africa. The Japan stream touches Jupau and Corca, Kainschatka and Alaska, and the western corst of North America aud the Mexican const, flowing almost as far south as the equator. t'liiludeltihU Call. Petroleum for Harbor Defence. A Philadelphia corporation thinks it is smart enough to set the river on lire. It is prepaiing to make experiment ut Fort Miiilin, near Philadelphia, with a new method of setting the river ou lire. It is proposed to siuk perforated iron pipes in the river bed aud approaches to the harbor, through which petroleum can be forced to the surface of the water by machinery. In this manner blu.iug petroleum caa ba eut into the enemy's fleet and uiako it uncomfortably hot for the proud invader. HOL'SKHOLl) AFFAIRS. Good Way to Cook Tomatoes. A good and unusual way to cook to matoes is tho following: Peel and slice eight tomatoes. Put them in a coarso cloth and press most of the juice into a bowl. Save the julco. Chop the toma taes and mix in two tablcspoonfuls of melted butter. Stir up well, put in a buttered mold, fit on the top, set in a pot of boiling water, and keep at a fast boil for ono hour. When done turn out on a flat dish and pour over it the fol lowing source: Heat the tomato juice, stir in a tablcspoonful of butter rolled in flour, season with popper, sugar and salt, and boil one minute. Sanitary Bedrooms. "Woolen carpets aro filthy," says Dr. John Crowell in Popular ti-ience Neirt, "and it the good housewife does not be liove it, let her look across tho room when tin sun is shining through it, aud see the dust constantly rising. This process noes on night and day, and is unavo li able when tho floor is encumbered with the woolen covering." Hard floors, without cracks or scams for dust and vermin, painted walls, simple furnish ings, because of dust and "germs," an open flroplace, sunshine for disinfecting nnd drying, no draporics to catch ami hold dust, the iron or bra-s bedstead and hair mattress those constitute tho es sentials of a sanitary sleeping-room. The old-fashioned wash-stand is recom mended as far more desirable than set bowls with hot and cold water, as these are rarely trapped properly, and so be come sources of pollution to the bed room. Laic$ of Ly e. A Suggestion lor Old Boxes. Do mothers and nurses know how much enjoyment and fun can be had out of different styles of boxes that we so ruthlessly destroy? If all the members of the family will save tho boxes they will find, some stormy day when children are forced to remain indoors, that a trip to tho attic (whero the boxes can be kept) will afford a creat deal of amuso mcnt. The little girls of the family will select ft good-sized box for a new kind ol doll's house, aud mamma or nurse can easily teach them how to cut cardboard furniture to furnish this little house. If it is summer time, make a tiny house out of an old cardboard box, and paste on to it dried moss, then set it on a shingle and have a little gravel path leading up to the door, un ono side have a bit of looking-glass for a pond, and somo branches of evergreen boughs for trees. Y'ou can add whatever clso you like to make it look like un old fashioned farm house. This simplo toy has kept little girls nappy for whole summers. The bovs can use tho boxei for thea tres, Punch and Judy and many different tunas ot shows. The baby will be amused with an old tin box, some beans or pebbles put iusiilo, and the outside covered with some bright colored flannel after the cover is firmly fastened. This will make a good rattle, and if a string be tied to the box it can be drawn on the floor, or be bus pended from the chandelier aud swung u tne baby is too younp; to walk. All these simple things have been ho'ps to many mothers and nurses ou rainy days, when the expensive toys of the nursery have crown old and the lit tle children aro longing for something now. When you go ftway from home for tho summer put some boxes and bricht col orcd papers and cloths into your trunk ; you will find them useful aud very ao ccptable when tho children cannot have tneir own nursery or the toys it contains Arett York Qrajihie. Things Worth Knowing. 1. That fish may be scaled much easier by dipping into boiling water about a minuto. & That fish may as well bo scaled if desired before packing down in salt, though in that case do not scald them. 8. Salt fish aro quickest and best freshened by soaking iu sour milk. 4. That milk which is turned or changed may be sweetened or rondored tit for use again by stirring in a little soda. 5. That salt will curdle now milk, hence in preparing milk porridge, gravies, etc., the salt should not bo added until the dish is prepared. tl. That fresh meat, after beginning to sour, will sweeten if placed out of doors in the cool of night. 7. That clear boiliug water will re move tea staius aud many fruit stains. Pour the water through the stain and thus prevent it spreading over the fabric. H. That ripe tomatoes will remove ink and other stains from white cloth; also from tho bauds. 1). That a tublcspoonful of turpentine boilod with your white clothes will uld in the whitening process. lu. That boiled starch is much im proved by the addition of a little sperm or a littlo salt, or a littlo gum arable dissolved. . 11. Thnt beeswax and suit will make your rusty flat irons as clean and smooth as gloss. Tie a lump of wax in a bag and keep it for thut purpose. When the irons aro hot, rub them fust with tho wax rag, then scour with a paper or cloth spriukled with suit. XvHiut blue ointment and kcroscno mijsj qual proportions and applied to theloteads is uu unfailing bedbug remedy, und thut a coat of whitewash is ditto fur the walls of a log house. U. That kerosene will softeu boots or shoes that have been hardened by water and render them as pliable as now. It. That kerosene will make tin tea kettles as bright as new. Saturate a woolen rng aud rub with it. It will also remove stains from the clean arnished furniture. 15. Thut cool raiuwater and soda will remove machine grease from washable fabrics. Lucky A inly, Bob, Billy and Harry.' Among the messenger boys in the ser vice of the first telegiaph o lice opened in Pittsburg, Penu , years ago weie four kuown respectively as Andy, Bub, Billy uud Hurry. This quartet has wou both fume und fortune. "Andy" Carnegie is one of the richest men iu the L uittd Sta'es, "Bob'1 Pitcairn is General Auent uud Superintendent of the Westeru Di vision of the Pennsylvania liuilroail, "billy" Morclund is City Attorney of Pittsburg, aud "Harry" Oliver has uiude a fortune iu steel, and narrowly missed a heut in the United States Senate. Picayune. -, IN AN OLD RUSSIAN FORT. HOW THE MUSCOVITE FORTIFIED IN ALASKA. At Tresent a Military Post In Naino Only Mode of Defense C urtos for Salo by Natives. Names of places in this Territory which have military designations, says a letter from Sitka, Alaska, to tho icw l orK Timet, may inspire a sene of security to outsiders unacqunintcd with the country. i ; t T.- for instance, upon Hearing ui run. Wranuell ono would naturally concludo that such a post would furnish ample socusity for a reasonable scope of coun try, i et the nearest troops uro at rori Townscnd, nearly ono thousand miles distant by water, if we except ft small company of marines at Sitka. Fort Wrangell is a military post ouly in name. It is about 150 miles southeast of Sitka by the waters of tho inlets but by tho bi-monthly steamers in a nori neast course its distance is more than five hundred miles. It is one of the old Russian settlements, and was ono of their most prosperous trading posts. Tho main part of the vil lage is on a moderate slope, with a lofty chain of mountains close behind. There are not moro than five hundred inhabit able acres there, and upon them was crowded all there ever was of Wrangell in its most prosperous dnys. On the north side of the village is a higher knoll, and on this stand tho old de fences of Fort AVrangcll. A high wooden palisndo or etockado sur rounded tho area fet apart for mili ary purposes; the blockade is gono, but tho buildings all remain in ft fair state of preservation. Tho fort proper whero wero the ollicers' quarters nnd tho bar racks for the men stands on tho north sido of tho quadrangle, and is a solid log building boarded over aud mado im penetrable to bullets. Tho Government house stands on tho west si lo of the square, is built of the same material, and is now occupied by United States Com missioner Sheakley, who was a member of Congress several years ago from Penn sylvania, and by the Deputy Collector of the Port, a Mr. Flcmming from Wiscon sin. This building on the cast side is adapted for defensive purposes. Cn the east bide of tho qundruug'.e is ft large log aud boarded building which was used in tho old lfussinn days as a store house, and its outer front was udaptedto protective and dofenivo purposes. At the southeast corner of this square stauds the most peculiar structuie of all, undone more suggestive of the necessities of do fense than all the rest It is the block house or bastion, and upou its safety aud se curity depended the safety nud sc-urity of the entire post. It is solidly built of logs, and is about twelve feet square at tho ground. It rises in these dimensions to about twelve feet, the height of the palisades, where is a second story of wider dimensions, extending entirely over tho margin of tho first. Its walls are not parallel with those of the first, but it is placed diagonally across tho first, so that its corners d j not conform to tho corners of tho first. In thus beiug wider thau tho first story, and extending over it on all sides, riflemen could de fend it, not only by aiming outward, but downward on tho outside of tho palisades. Such defenses wero common in Pennsylvania, New ork, and Chio 100 years ago, but they aie now only h's toric memories, while tho liussian block house at Fort Wrangell still exists as a memento of their occupation, und is rapidly going to ruin. There are oulv ft fow Hussions left at Wrangell, not more than a dozen of pure bloods. There are quite a number of tho mixed race, Indiun aud Bussian, still there, but the bulk of tho denizens of the pluco aro natives. These rclic3 of liussian peasantry and tho half-breeds are, as a rule, more worthless than the native or Indian. The houses of the old ltussiaa settlement aro rapidly disap pearing from luck of care and through the wot climate, which is destructive of timber. About 500 Indiaus hivo thoir Wiutor homo there. During the cun ning season they go out a long distauce up the inlets aud take salmon uud other fish for tho canneries. When that sea son is over they return to Wrangell, spending tho Winter months in hunting the mule deer, sometimes attacking the great brown bear of the ad.oiuingmouu tuins, but giving over most of their leisure timo to gambling. Thoro are twelve or fifteen Americuus iuthovil lage.somo in public employment, some in mission work teaching tho Indiaus, somo iu suloou keeping, and tho rest in traders' stores. This is the second point touched by tho Pucilio steamers on the wuy up after lcaviug iNuimo, tho lust e nding station far down on Vumouvcr's Island. Culy a fow supplies uio tal.eu off, aud some cases of cauned tuluum aud peltries taken on. A remnaut of the old ltussiuu town stauds below tho fort along v. hat was onco perhaps a street. A relic of a rouyh wooden sidewalk und some boarded up old-fashioned narrow windows suggest trallic. On this broken nnd dilapidated walk a scoro or two old squaws und de crepit men squut nnd expose for snlo the curios with whiih they hope to tempt the tourist. The e natives uro adopts ut construction, nnd offer for sale uicely formed bracelets und rings in tnutucturcd from coin silver obta-ucd at the canneries for fish. They ul-o have wooden spoons and bowls for snlo made from tho beau tiful yellow cedar of this coust, orna mented with carved grillius of curious design. Iu trading with tho Athabascan ludiuns of the interior, iu the British dominions, they procure a white coarse wool from a sort of mountain goat or sheep, und this is wo. en into blankets variously colored, mostly gray and white, aud ligurcd over with Kiillins und nodescript figures of a liko uutiiic. Alaska for a thousand miles uud more is ouly a stiip of const. about thirty miles wide ou the mainland. The lu diuns of tho interior are never permitted by the const natives to come to tide water. Tho coast natives have from timeout of mind constituted themselves the middlemen, and havo doue all the t tt'UU',' with the Indians of the Biltieh domiuions. Tho wampum beads which were used by tho lii.huus for coins wero so ueally Hindu uud so convenient that the first liuropeuu settlers used them u!o, ut the rate of four black bead or uight white beads for a l.euuy. The bells of this wampum wero used to record ail impor taut events, LOVE-LIGHT. All thro' the house I can hear her voice, Sunshine, my Sunshine, Scattering gladness, bidding rejoice, My fair Sunshine. In my lady's chamber away up-stairs, Banshine, my Sunshine, She is chanting snatches of carolling aim, My fair 8unshine, She is laughing now in the children's gleo, Sunshlno, rny Sunshine, Blithely the echoes float in to me; My fair Sunshine. In white she flashes adown the stair, Bunshine, my Sunshine; Her quick, light foot patters there, My fair Bunshine. A moment her face shines In at the door, Sunshine, my Sunshine, And the room turns light, it is dark no moro My fair Bunshine. With a white hand waved and a kiss air blown, Bunshine, My Sunshine, She has passed and vanished, my love, my own,. My fair Bunshine. Archibald MacMechan in Youth'i Com panion. UlMOlt OF Til K DAT. In everybody's mouth Teeth. The glazier generally has ft pane in his chest. The dressmaker's draper should bo quick at figures. Working like ahorse A lawyer draw ing a. conversation. Hearts may bo honest, but thoy are always on the beat. The rising generation Folks getting up in tho morning. Why is a doctor nover scasicki He ia used to sco sickness. Sometimes in a trade a man kicks when there is nothing to boot, The woman question which womcu aro opposed to "How old are you?" It is not generally known that tho wheels of a vehicle are tired as tho horso. A pig was never known to wash, but ft great many peoplo have soon the pig iron. In a question of life and death Ihero aro two Bides to take This sido anil that sido. It is now believed that Venus rose, from the sea to allow the hired girl to make the bed of the ocean. Ddtroit Frea 1'fMS. "Ah," said the fly, as it crawled around the bottle, "I have passod through the hatching age, tho creeping age, and now I am in tho mucilage" then it stuck. Customer (to waiter) Some cheeso, please." Waiter "Beg pardon, sir; very sorry, sir; cheeso out, sir." Cus tonicr "That so? When do you expect it back?" Lire. The title of a book which lies before us "Twenty Thousand Leagues Lndcr the Sea" suggests that the submarine development of the national game has assumed the character of craze. "Dad can tell the time without look ing at his watch," said littlo Johnnie. "When I ask him in the morning ho says it is time to get up, and when 1 ask him at night ho says it Is time to go to bed." -Via YorA- tiuii. "How are you getting aloDg';" nsked ono cyclone of another. "About ninety miles an hour. How's yourself ;" "U, I mannge to keep things moving," an swered Cy. No. 1, and blew a towu into tho luko. Jkiroit Free VV.M. It is said to be dangerous to attend church when there is a "great guu" in the pulpit, a "minor canon" in tho reading desk, when tho bishop "charges the clergy" and whon the choir "mur ders au unthcin." Detroit Free Prat. There was confusion in the faces of Georgo and Matilda, who sat in iutimute proximity ou the sofa, as Hurry entered. Matilda was tho first to recover her self possession. Sho said "Wo are engaged in ft little gume ut curds." Hurry "And a mighty closo game, too, chi" L'oitoii Transcript. Bobert J. Burdotlo recently received ft notification at Livingston, Mou., that u deud registered letter awaited his orders) at Washington. He sent the following reply: "11 the lottor referred to isn't so dead that it is offensive you might tend the remains to Burlington, Iowa, whero I will claim the mummy in about a month." A'tw York J'ont. "Miss Maud," ho said, "I havo come in this evening to usk you a quextion, and I havo bruughtaring with mc. Now, beforo yuu try it ou 1 want to lull you that if you feel inclined to bo a sister to mu I will have to take it tuck, as my father objects to my sister wearing such large diamonds." Aud Muud said tho would keep the ring. Jacclr'i Wait. A I ine Compliment. liusbuud : "Pro fessor Wideheud paid you a very lino compliment ufter diuuer lust night, my deur." Wife: "Oh, did he? AN hut did ho say?" Husband: "Ho said that on weren't haudsoiuo, but you were ono of tho most intelligent women he ever met." AVifo: "Professor AVhat's-hia nuiuo 1ms received his last invitation from mo. 'Time. Millionaire Flood's Gold. Flood's tstuto is valued by good judges 8115,000,000. At tho height of 1 1 10 bouuiiu excitement, when shares on tho Icadiug mines brought If I HO uud paid $50 a mouth dividend, Flood's wealth wm rated ut $U',U0i,0(J0, but theu camo the gieut bhtiukagu in Coui stock values, whiih cut down the for tune of all the miuiug millionaires fu ly one-half, uud Flood's losses by iba Nevada Bank wheat deul weie fully $". 00 J, 000. The property will probubly be equally divided lelweeu the wife, soli and duughtcr. The latter was nlwavs Flood's favorite, uud ut one timo she puaM.'Scd iu her own light $t00,c 10 in real estate und Coveiument bonds. She gave much of this to help her father out ol his embarrassment a ycarao, but still owus about ,U'0,l'i,0. Nonug Flood isshiewd, but hs no stabiiity,uud the uld man never trusted him iu auy large deals. IS in l 'rami co ,L.',. A report comes lrom I.os AugoU. Cul., of the discovery of an aucicut tem ple ou Sua C l'-iumto Island, ju.t off tux couct.
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