THE FOBEST- REPUBLICAN 1 published rrj Wednesday, ky J. E. WENK. Offloa In Bmearbaugh & Co.'a Building LM 8TRBET, TIONE8TA, I", Term. . . . 1 1.80 par Year. He intiwrtptlotn received for a shorter nerlnA tbsn thre month. " period OorrnjK)Vl.nc iollelted from iD nirtl of thu RATE3 OF ADVERTISING. One "qmre, one Inch, one insertion f I 00 On Sqnare, on Inch, on. month ... 8 00 One Bqnare, one lncb, three month! s 00 One Squire, one Inch, one ytt in 00 Tito n,nnrcf, one year is no Qnsrter Column, one year , 80 04 Hair Column, one year 60 00 One Column, one year , 100 00 IPftal advertisement! ten eenti per line each In sertion. Carriages and death notices gratis. All bills for yearly advertisement collected oner, terly. Temporary advertisement must be paid la advance. Job work cash on delivery. FOREST PUBLIC VOL. XXIL NO. 4. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1889. S1.50 PEIl ANNUM. AW nl .Ttiimn Ir now n constitutional miin urcliy. Its progress toward liberal gov ernment hits been ly gigantic strides. ' Tlio total post of the Turin Exposition Is exccted to be 110,000,000. The Government rontribtites the greater part ml the. rify of Paris most of the rest, t Senator Stanford, of California, offered ftiS.OOO for Kentucky Prince, nml tliis, Iccording to the Spirit of the Timet, was the. largest sum ever offered for a horse, hut it was refused. In Toronto, Canada, through the ef forts of the Humane Society, a work of humane literature, compiled liy the So ciety, has been adopted as a text book in the public schools. Nothing is morn apparent at the prcs mt juncture, stales, the New York (rapine, than that the Italians arc stag gering under epiite as heavy a load of taxation as they are able to hear. Tt is estimated that, the value of tho land contained in Central Park, New York city, which originally cost l?(i, 500,000, is now worth, at least, over $100,000,000. Tho maintenance of tho Park costs nearly f 100,000 a vear. Seven nations have debts much larger Hum America, and the obligations of Ii. :a and Kgyp. ;;Bi;.v y . M up toward the American sum. The debt of France is live times as large; the English debt it four times as large as ours. It is significant, thinks the London Acim, that the Germans have recently thought it worth their while to detail to their American legation a "technical at tache," with the prescribed duty ol watching the new experiments in implfc. ments and means of warfare. Thomas Ewing Sherman, the only son of General Sherman, now studying al Georgetown College, District of Colum bia, will be ordained a Jesuit this summer. He launched out into the fashionable life of a young of his station, but suddenly retired. from tho social world to entui upon a clerical career. 'Is there any crime, out rage or brutality ill this WOl'Id lll.ll II IV.imnii t iu the man she loves ?"hsks the New York Mail ami Kejurmi. ''Here's Mrs. llohan, the poor creature whose brute of a hits band coolly gouged out both her eyes last fall, visiting and caressing liiiu in the prison to which he was sent for his mutila tion of her." Statistics, Miss Knatchbull-llugessen uivs, have been recently collected as to tho health of women university student iffcr leaving college iu Knglaml, and in particular thosu who have married. The results fully bear out tho conclusion ol Sir William dull as to the advantage of thorough intellectual training for girls, (veu from a medical jioint of view. v' Daniel A. Loring owns more stock fumbling '-bucket shops," asserts the Sew York Vraptiie, than any other man u this country. He has about 200 scat fcrcd iu different parts of the United States, and his telegraph bill annually if 1300,000. He is a great believer iu rea estate and invests most of his profits In good New York property. Personally lit is youthful iu appearance, v:th a smoothly (haven face, a clear blue eye and ruddy zoniplexiou. The New York Coimiureial Ailtertim states that at Rondotit-ou-the-Hudson u man died, leaving a property valued at f2000. This was partly mortgaged. The mortgage and costs involved amounted to rl'J'.W, thus leaving but $1 to bo divided among tho widow and fourteen heirs. The widow will, however, have only the use of this dollar during her lifetime, and must leave it to her heirs at her death. There were twenty-two defendants hi this interesting euse. It'is a curious outcome of what ap peared at one time a bellicose situation ... in tlie Sainoan waters, moralizes the Chicago Tina, that the elements rise up and drive the warships of Germany and America upon the rocks, destroying them. They encountered a force in nature more powerful than either of them and sinking into the yeast of wuves are seen no more. It was an 'appalling disaster. The En glish, with their usual good luck at sea, were not sufferers. It would seem, remarks the New York Acic, that iu tho Spanish Cortes at Mad rid the ipiestion of selling Cuba has been, if not discussed, at least referred to, as licrwiso there would" bo no cause for the'emphatic flecbiration of, the Spanish Minister 'of tho Interior, that Spain would never consent to sell Culm to the '-'ijiletl States or any oilier country" and t there was not wealllfcjiH:h in the j:oe universe to buy even Jc smallest rtion of the Spanish territory," ! Belgium is as convenient to r offenders of France, an Canada i boodler of our land. SIXTY AND SIX. Light of the morning, Darling of dawning, Blithe little, lithe little daughter of mine! While with thee ranging Sure I'm exchanging Sixty of my years for six years like thine. Wings cannot vie with thee, Lightly I fly with the- Gay as tho thistle down over the lea; i Life Is all magic, Comic or tragic. Played as thou playost It daily with mo. Floating and riuging - Thy merry singing Comes when the light comes, like that of the birds. List to the play of Itl That Is the wny of it; All' In the music and naught in the words Glad or grief-laden, Helnibort or Haydn, Ballad of Erin or merry Hcolch lay, Like an evangel Some baby angel Brought from sky-nursery stealing away Surely I know it, Artist nor poet Guesses my treasure of jubilant hours. Sorrows, what are they? Nearer, or far, they Vanish In sunshino, like dew from tho flowers. Years, I am glad of them ! Would that I had of them More and yet more, while thus mingled with Initio. Ago, I mako light of itl Fear not the sight of it. TImo's hut our playmate, whose toys are divine. Thonui W. Iliyyinson, in The Century THE STOLEN LETTER. BV nKLKNT FOIlllKST (IKAVE8. "You are very foolish to think of it at nil," said Miss Antonina lilodgett. Miss Hlodgett was trimming her hat with A Itonr-li fif nrtiftciiil twitm,,,.! !., Tho spring fashions were in, and Miss ""K,:" on mea oi ueing cancel a dowdv. She was a lmndsome l,l,rlir.,.l. ored girl, with hair arranged in the very ltet .,.i 1 i... , o'jit, j iiuie.Kim-a h rt.n . i niio iier ears, and two or thno diiT.rf.i,t .n.l rings on her plump fingers, and she .i .i ... iiiiuiiucu iiiu retrain oi wio latest opera oouitc as sue sat mere waiting for the tea bell to rinrr. o- Madeline Murrav had hist come in from school. Tho children had been unusually rrouiiiesouie mat clay. Four obstinate, hulli'Mirmliut littln liiilc )mrl ... fused to capitulate, on the subject of the multiplication table, until four o'clock; and then there were the copy-books to be gathered up, the object lessons for the 4., I... 1 J 1 ., umhiuw vi iiu gmiieru over, mm ine weekly report to be carried iu to the vice principal. "I am afraid, Miss Murrav," he had said to her, "that your dieipliue is hardly wnat it ougnt to be. A one of the other teachers have trouble with their chil dren." "None of the other teachers have such a bad class as mine," instinctively re torted poor Madeline. Hut the vice-iirinr-injil h.-ul onK- f-.iu-..1 and muttered something about "excuses neiiig convenient. And Mndelino had dragged herself home, with a headache that seemed like red-hot needles tingling at the base of her brain, and a heart full of despond ency, for she knew well that Mr. Double day, the vice-nrincinal. had a sIsIit Ii was eagerly awaiting the first vacancy to i i ii - i ' i J ueeuiiiu ucrseu a icaener. At home she had found a letter from an old grand aunt awaiting her. "I don't know whether you'ro tired of try ing that experiment of city life," wroteAuiit Kunieo. after a peculiar orthography of her ,'.vUII,, uiiH.m nil ill hit lilt I sh.llll.l ll,i,,L- v..,, ... I... 1... thu time. Lois Ann is marritsl, and I need soniotxidy to help me with the housework. If you choose to come back to the farm, I'll pay a dollar ami a half a week, just tho samo as I laid I-ois Ann. and give you a good home. And it is au otrer 1 shall not mako twice." Madeline looked wistfully at the let ter. Go back to the shrill sound of Aunt Eunice's voice, the dreary drudgery of washing and ironing, baking, soft soap making aud cellar scrubbing go hack to tho old existence from which she had been so anxious to escape? Would it not he a tacit admission that life for her had been a failure? Yet, on the other hand, there was the vice-principal's jM-rsistent disapproval the sister only waiting a chance to edge herself iu as a teacher the headaches and tho utter disheartentnent. "You'll never have a chance to get married," Raid Miss Hlodgett, "if you bury yourself alive in the 'country like that." J "I do not think I shall ever marry," said Madeline, sadly. "Why not?" said fair Antonina. "There isn't much stylo about you, to be sure, but there are always plenty of opportuni ties iu such a place as this." For Miss Klodgrtt's sister-in-law a shrill-voiced widow, with a tomahawk shaped nose aud a cap invariably slipped to one side kept the boarding-house, and it was full of eligible boarders; and not a gentleman sat down to the table for whom Ij'i miioiiuia nail nor, at one tunc or other, "set her cap." i ul... ....... i:i ... i , I wi.vi nun 1 1 1 t, ii irmi.iv ii.uiiiI.i in ... Madeline Murray like one of the slender stemmed violets that only blossoms in the shade, but are ineffably sweet. "I am almost discouraged," said Made line, iu a low voice. "Oh, well, do as you please," said Miss Hlodgett, remembering, as she spoke, that if blue-eyed .Madeline were gone, she would have no rival iu the eyes of Mr. Avcucl, the young lawyer, who' sat op posite them at table. Madeline was very silent this eveniii". -Miss RTodgctt talked and laughed with unusual volubility. Mr. Avcnel, a black-haired, straight featured man. with uleuHimi h,.i watched them both with unusual taciturn ity. "Shall I," he asked himself, as the shultliiig waiter muttered the various items of dessert into his ear, "or shall l not? Have I known her .long cnoiig: Has she given mu any right to hope lor such a blessing shali I, or shall I not?" Aud the waiter brought him, in de spair of any definite order, a plate of dyspeptic-looking rice pudding, dottcr; over wiin lat tuacK raisins. It was almost as difficult for Mr. Avcnel to mako up his mind as it had been for Madeline Murray this dreary March night. On the next. Monday afternoon one of the round-eyed little school boys ran after her, crying out: "Teacher teacher! here's a letter for you! Hold on a minute, teacher! Wait I" "Nonsense!" said Madeline, sharply. She had had four different labels at tached to her gown that day; her lunch basket had had ita contents extracted nnd replaced with shavings; the "Key to At gebra" had been skillfully substituted for "r irst Lessons in Grammar," and nura bcrless other facetious jokes had been played on her by those young lambs, her scholars, nnd she was in no mood for any more impositions. "Gen'leman told me to give it to you!" breathlessly uttered tho boy. "lie gimmo a dime, he did!" But Madeline slipped past him into tho house, taking advantage of the door be ing just then opened by Miss Hlodgett, in ail the glories of a chenp summer silk and the bonnet newly cjuivcriug with Honeysuckles. "Hoy!" said Miss Blodgeft, severely, "what are you doing here? None of your April-fool jokes iu this house, unless you want mo to send for n policeman." "I ain't a-April fooling!" said the boy, with an injured voice. "It's a lettr for her for teacher." "Who is it from?" said Miss Hlodgett, who was not without her fair share of Madam Eve's inheritance. "A gen'leman," said tho boy. "lie gimme a silver dime, he did!" "Let" mo look at.it," said Miss Hlod gett; and in an instant bIic recognized the straight, clear handwriting of John Avcnel. "Oh, yes, I sec! I'll tako charge of it, young man." "Will you be sure teacher gets it? eagerly panted the lad. " 'Cause ho gimme a " "It's all right," said Miss Hlodgett, turning back into tho house aud running hurried Iv up to tier own room. "T! must be a fate in it," said she, untyinu iac :iew, rustling bonuet-striugs. "I wonder w hat he can possibly have to say to he i ' I'll just hold the letter over tho tea-kettle spout for a minute it's easy sealed up again and if it should be nothing but au April-fool She giggled ncrvmi-ly as she stole down into the kilcheu to borrow a kettle of boiling water. Hut it was no April fool missive. It was a simple, straightforward declaration of love a laving of Mr. Avenel's heart and hand at Madeline Murray's feet. "If you care for me," ho wroto, "come down to the parlor to-night. I shall be wait ing there, more anxiously than I can tell you. If you do not come, I shall never utter a word of reproach to you. You havo a right to your own division." Miss Hlodgett read the letter. She gnawed her full, red lmdcrlip, nnd took her resolution in the twinkling of an eye She put away her showy walking gar mciils, assumed a wrapper, aud deluged tier forehead with cologne. And then she sent for Miss Murray to come nnd sit with her. "You have so much magnetism in your touch, dear," she said. "If you will only sit by me ami stroke my head And gentle Madeline, all unconscious of the black treachery m Antonina's heart, was only too glad to be of use. Mr. Avcnel was uiiwontedlv pale when he came to the breakfast-table the next .lay. Madeline glanced timidly at him, Intt ventured to say nothing but tho merest "Good morning?" Antonina, however, followed him out into the hall when the meal was over. "Forgive me, Mr. Avcnel," said she, in her sweetest voice; "but I cannot with hold my sympathy for tho cruel way in which you have been treated. I couldn't have believed it of Madeline Murray !" He turned quickly around. "You know all about it, then?" said he. ' 'I told her it was wrong to laugh at you. Oh, Mr. Avcnel, do not look stem There are other women in the world be sides Madeline Murray. Oh, if such a treasure had been ottered to me " She stopped abruptly, and hunir down her head, with a pretty affectation of con fusion. "Pray do not distress yourself," said A vend, coldly. "I am sorry that I have an imperative engagement this morning." He bowed, and hastened up stairs. Autonina looked after him with an oblique light in her bold, handsome eves. "I was alitllc premature, "she thought. Hut no matter. He can't fling back my sympathy and time will work won ders. I shall be Mrs. Avcnel yet." And she sauntered into the draw ing- room to finish yesterday's dog's-eared novel. For Miss Hlodgett was by far too line a lady to work for her living. As John Avcnel stepiicd out into the fresh air, ten minutes or so later, he found himself Close alongside of Miss .Murray. She was looking unusually pretty, in her simple straw hat and close-fiitinir jacket; her blue eyes brightened, and a tide of warm color mounted into her check. "Oh, Mr. Avcnel," said she, "I am so glad to see you !'' "Arc you?" "You see," said Madeline, shyly,"! want to ask vour advice." "Indeed!" She looked at him w ith a startled air. "What have I done to offend von i" said she. fW'hat have I done lleit. iu wrong?" "Nothing at all," he answered, be- thinking himself of his obligations as a gentleman. "You know that I told vou you had a right to decide for yourself, Miss Murray." "You told me?" lifting her pretty eyebrows. "In my letter," he explained rather coldly. "Wlmt letter?" "Did you not receive a letter from me yesterday ?'' he asked iu some surprise. 'No, I certainly did not." "That is very strange," said AvenM. "I gave it to Tommy Dixon to givo to you, nnd " Madeline uttered a little cry of despair. "It's tho very letter," sho cried. "Tommy ran after me with it, and I wouldn't tako it, because I thought it was one of his horrid, teasing, little April fool tricks. Oh, what a fool I was! And an April one, too!" she added, curiously balancing on the boundary lino between smiles nnd tears. "Then you didn't read it?" "How could I, when I never got it?" "Shall I tell you what was inside?" ho asked, holding both her little trembling hands in his. "Yes, please do," sho murmured, knovlig by some strange intuition just what was coming next,nnd nlrcndy color ing like a rose. "Just this, Madeline. I love you. Will you be my wife?" "And nnd do you want me to answer it?" "Most assuredly I do." "Then yes!" "My own dear little girl! No, you must not go on to tho public school. Y'ou do not belong to the public school any longer; you belong to be. Let me walk back to the house with you, for " Just at this moment, however, a red faced, panting maid servant, with an apron thrown over her head, met them on the steps, holding something white in her hand. "Miss Murray! Miss Murray!" sho cried, "I've got it for you. I knowed I could if only I waited long enough. "Got what, ltosy?" said perplexed Madeline. "The letter as was writ to you, Miss Murray tho letter nJ saw Miss Hlod gett opening over theime of the bilin' hot tay kettle, throu tho crack of tho door, bad luck to hi I knowed then as something was v, AJx, an' I jest lay low an' waited till Hound itin the pocket of her silk gownd, .directed to 'Miss Madeline Murray.' Sure I didn't furgit the night you tuck caro of me, wid the neurology in my face, un' tho hop poul tices you made, at all. There don't nobody stale nothin' from you whin Rosy Hyan's around !" Iu a second Antonia Blodgett's flushed face appeared behind the excited house maid. "Give mo back my letter, you thief!" she screamed, before she saw Mr. Avcnel aud Madeline. Then she stopped quickly, witli hci fingers pressed over her heart. "It ain' mo as is the thafe!" boldly persisted Posy. And Antouiua judged it best to follow the matter no farther. "But what was it you wanted me to advise you about?" said Avcnel, after ward, to Madeline. "About whether I should stay hero oi go back to the country," whispered she. "Then I advise you to stay here." And this is the reason that, of all months in the year, the month of April is Mrs. John Aveud's favorite. Saturday Ki'jht. .. . . - . ... .- Tho Hardships of Explorers. Not very long ago a number of men lauded from canoes at Asuncion, Para guay, and made their way to a street car. They were barefoot, ragged and general ly disreputable in appearance. They told the conductor who they were, and said they had no money, but at the hotel, a mile from the landing, they would be identified and their fares would bo paid. The conductor did not do business on that basis. He told the party they looked like beggars, aud they must pay their fares or walk. They thereupon walked to the hotel, where a hearty wel come and plenty of money awaited them. They were the Thouar exploring expedi tion, sent out by the Argentine Govern ment, just returning from their long trip on the Pilcomayo Piver, and officially complimented for having accomplished "a hitherto impossible feat." Explorers usually undergo a good deal of wear and tear iu their personal ap pearance. Stanley, who entered Africa on one sido with a head of brown hair, came out on the other with hair almost white. Sir Samuel Baker said a while ago that an explorer could not wandct around Central Africa very long and con tinuo to look liko a white mau. Now YorV .Suit. How to Prevent Coal Oil Accidents. Professor P. B. Wilson, inspector ol gas and illuminating oils, offers these suggestions to prevent coal oil accidents: First, replace glass with metal lamps, especially when the lamp is to be kept lighted all night; second, the wick should fill the entire burner, both as to thickness and width, but not so tight as to prevent au upward How of oil to the point of ignition, nor to prevent air replacing tho ,' oii as it is consumed; third, have no vents or openings of any kind near tho burner; fourth, do not set a glass lamp on any hi nted mantel or other rest where it will be heated, aud from there carry it suddenly into the cold air of another room, as the contraction of vapor in the lamp will cause au inflow of air which may carry lliu tlaniu with it; fifth, com pletely lill the lamp before using, and never refill it or trim thu wick until the body of the lamp and tho burner has cooled. IkiVimore Sun. A New Craze or Hie 'Tppor Crust." Just now the stcrcoplicon anil magic lantren are quite a craze in the tipper cir cles of society. Many people- of fashiou and wealth have bought handsome stcre- opticons, with a large variety of views. and, having learned to manipulate them properly, now give entertainments in their parlors for the ' benefit of theii friends. Sirs. Andrew Carnegie, who U an excellent amateur photographer, took many negatives iluring the famous lilauic- Damrosi h coaching trip, from w hich Ian- , tern slides are made. These, together with other Views of Scotland, she has ex hibited at several receptions iu her pala tial home. Mrs. Jordan L. Mott, Jr., has ustd u complete magic lantern for quite a long time, and with it affords iu in h pleasure and instruction to clubs of woikjng girls, as well as to her per sonal friends. Yc York Star. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. MAKING MATONSAISR. In malting mayonnaise stir tho yelk of the egg at least a minute bf fore begin ning to add oil. The oil must be added drop by drop, ono drop to every one or two circuit of tho spoon. AVlicn the mayonnaise becomes quite thick use a few drops of vinegar to thin it, then more nil until sufficient sauco be made. The vinegar should be very strong. When made), the sauce should be kept cold. SMELTS IX FRKNCII RTYI.E. Smelts are fried in French style, according to Miss Corson, as follows: Carefully wipe two pounds of cleaned meltfl with a dry cloth; dip them in miik, then roll in finely powdered cracker crumbs, next in an egg beaten with a snltspoonful of salt and a quarter of a saltspoouful of pepper, and then again in cracker crumbs; fry them in enough smoking-hot fat to cover them, until they are golden brown. Take them from the fat with a skimmer, lay them on a napkin or a piece of paper to absorb all fat, and serve them laid in rows with a few quarters of lemon on the side of tho dish. MARTIED POTATOES. The oiiject in mashing potatoes is to Separate the starch cells, thereby render ing the potato less indigestible." After tho potatoes are boiled, pour off tho watei and placo them on back of range to evaporate all absorbed moisture. Then press them through a strong coarse sieve twice, or once through the patent masher. To a quart of potatoes add two ounces oi creamed butter, half a teaspoonful of salt and half a pint of rich cream ; bent it up with a fork until as light as snow-flakes, and serves. Thus prepared the potato is a luxury. Do not press them with a fork or knife, as some vegetable cooks at res taurants are in the habit of doing. H they are wanted crusted, place the snowy dish in the oven a few minutes to brown. Acte York Her all. A KICK DKBSETIT. A nico dessert is made with canned peaches and gelatine as follows: Soak half a package of gelatine in half a cup ful of water for two hours. Boil a cup ful of water and a scant cupful of sugar fifteen minutes. Mash fine one pint of canned peaches, rub through a sieve and put them into the syrup; cook five miu utes, stirring constantly. Set the sauce pan into another containing boiling water and add the gelatine; stir five minutes or more till tho gelatine is dissolved; then place the saucepan in a dish of ice water nnd beat the Byrup until it begins te cool ; add the unbeaten whites of eggs tmd beat till the mixture begins to harden. When it will just pour, turn it into a mold aud let it harden. Serve with cream and sugar. JVtfio York Worhl. FAVORITE PIES. Put in a pan on the stove a lump of butter the size of an egg; thoroughly mix with it when hot a heapening tablespoon ful of flour; add gradually a cup of boil ing water, being careful to form no lumps; beat a cup of sugar with tlireo eggs till light, and add to the first mix ture when it hns sufficiently cooled so as not to scald the eggs; flavor with vanilla or nutmeg and spread intour pic tin that Iws previously had its crust laid on, anil bake quickly with no upper crust; if de sired the white of one egg can be re served and used for frosting. After filling your tin with under crust spread your thinly sliced apples in even ly, cover with tipper crust and bake; while baking take enough sugar to sweeten nicely, nud with a tablespoouful of butter, mix thoroughly till it creams; add grated nutmeg, nnd as soon as (lie pie is baked, with a thin, sharp knife carefully separate the two crusts, and lay ing tho tipper crust aside, spread the fla vored butter aud sugar evenly over the apples and replace the upper crust. Detroit Free Press. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. A little gum arabic imparts a gloss to ordinary starch. Wash all marble daily with ammonia and water instead of soapsuds. To prevent a door from creaking apply a little stove polish to the hinges. Sweep and dust once a week the rooms which do not daily receive this attention. To dean steel, rub the article with a piece of wash leather dipped iu kerosene. Put salt 'i the water to prcveut blui-k calicoes ,m failing when they are washed. Young veal may be told by the bone in tho cutlet. If it is very small the veal is not good. Egg shells crushed and shaken iu a glass bottle half filled with water will clean it quickly. Paint made with turiicntiiic is a better protector for iron work than when mixed with linseed oil. A wineglass of strong borax water pint of raw starch will make collars an cuffs stiff and glossy. A good egg has a clean, healthy look ing shell, while a bad one has a dull, porous looking shjl. Kerosene is. unexcelled in starch to givo polish; also to polish glass. It will make your windows shine like silver. Cake is baked when a fine splinter of wood will pass through without any of the cake adhering, and not until then. W lieu not too bad, nasal catarrh may be relieved by snuffing tepid salt water through the nose, two or three limes a day. A few drops of lard or sweet oil rubbed ou the surface of a mustard plaster will always prevent it from blistering the skin. Horseradish root grated and moistened with vinegar, put in a bag ami applied to the seat of pain, will cure or relieve neuralgia. Two apples kept iu a cake box will keep moderately rich cake moist a great length of time, if the apples are renewed when withered. . - WHERE RUBBER JS FOUKDl GATHERING THE CROP AIiONQ THE MIGHTY AMAZON. Pre-empt inr Scringocs Congealing tlio Sap Celebrated Para Itiscuit Veritable Living Kiibbcr Men. Uubber is a coagulated sap of tho Biphonia elastica nnd its kindred genera, a tree, shrub, bush, vine or weed produc ing merchantable quantities of rubber in Brazil, Hie North and West Coasts of South America, Central America, Mexico, East nnd AVest Coasts of Africa nnd India. Even our common .milk weed would produce a very fair rubber. The standard and most reliable rubber in quality, as well as the highest priced tho celebrated "fine Para biscuit" is produced in Brazil, while the lowest giades nnd most irregular qualities aro the productions of the West Coast of Africa; the latter, in fact, are even there deteriorating due to carelessness or fraud on the part of the gatherers. On tho lower Amazon, among the islands, rubber is collected nnd brought to market every month in the year; but the rubber from the upper river gathered during the dry season only reaches mar ket in the wet season, for thu double reason of tho necessity for high water to enable the river steamers to reach the higher branches of tho river nnd the enormous distances required to be sailed over by these steamers, whose trips into Peru nnd the head w aters and back covet a greater distance than from hero to Liverpool and back, and consumo n greater time. Between Para aud the Andes Mountains there arc 30,000 to 40, 000 miles of navigable water of tho Amazon and its tributaries. The rubber . from this valley was formerly brought to market in the shape of bottles anil shoes, made by the nalivc over clay molds, which were then broken and taken out. This method was continued until about 18-1S or 1S10, when a wooden mold something after the shape of a paddle, was adopted by tho gatherers, and is exclusively used to-day. Grants of seringoes, or rubber lands, are made by the provincial governments upon application of discovers or explor ers of same, on the condition of their oc cupying and working tho trees, which are iu turn mortgaged to the ParaYu Manaos merchants as security for the ad vancement of supplies to the gatherers against rubber to bo delivered through out the crop. Nearly nil the available lands are thus taken up, although not all thus pre-empted are worked. These seringoes exist not only on the rivei margins, but in the interior ns well al ways, however, iu low districts of a swampy nature, near or around lakes oi ponds; and from these inland lakes small streams drain into the river, down which the rubber is floated to the forwardina points for shipment to Para. Some of the seringoes arc very exten sive, and many men arc employed- di vided into gangs sonic to keep thepnthu open from tree to tree by constant chop ping and cutting nt the wild nnd luxuri ant vegetable growth, which would other wise choke up the paths and render them impassable iu a short time. Anothei gang gathers the milk or sap of the tree, by cutting into the bark iu a V-shape, and sticking to the tree at the point ol the V n small clay cup or saucer of about two gills capacity, into which the while, milky sap slowly Iriiiklcs. It is then col lected, brought into camp, and dis tributed in large basins among the makers, each of whom has a smouldering tire ol nuts, covered by a portable clay chimney a foot or so high, from which issues t dense, black smoke. The operation ii then a very simple, one. The niakei covers his paddle with a thin layer ol sap, which naturally adheres to it, holdi it in the smoke for a moment, at onct congealing it. Ho then adds anothei layer, by dipping, and again holds hi) paddle in the smoke. This operation hi repeats again and again, until the inc-r claimable "tine Para biscuit" is pro ductd. The puddle is cut out and th operation repeated. Tho biscuit, when finished aud cut from the paddle, coutains fifty-six pel cent, water, which must be wholly evaporated before it is ready to put iutc goods. This loss is divided between th different parties who handle it. Tht greatest loss is between the camp and Para, where every biscuit is cut for grading oi quality. The sweepings of the camp drippings of the trees unci cJc.-uiings f'rou. the basihs, etc., are more carelessly rolled together into scrappy balls. . In Ki-uadoi the sap Is floated on to water and mixed with ashes and other foreign stuff tc hasten its coagulation, not to mention that it. increases its weight. In Nicaragua the sap is drawn into tin dishes and is coagulated by mixing w ith the bruised leaves of a plant which Hourishis in that vicinity. The natives in Africa have a method ol gathering by smearing the sap on thcii naked bodies, coming into i amp veritabh rubber men. The product of rubber of the Amazon valley has more than doubled iu the last ten years. The crop ending the suiiiiuei 'of 1878 was T.V.I8 tons, while last ear's crop was 15.7-5 tons. The total con sumption of all glades of rubber in the United States last year was lill, 000,00(1 pounds, the Value of which was about 15,000,000. .V utijie Am l Uait. A Big Board. A short time ago H. Herman, of New Yorki-ity, sent an ng.-ut to Scotlsburg, Iud., to purchase a huge while oak tree, which liie.isuicd (Hcnt -seven leet in circumference. He paid 575 tor it, and at once sit to work to L:et out as large a board as possible. The tne;i lipped up by means of a cross-cut saw, anil a board leu inches thick, live feet tuo and a half indies wide at butt, and five feet wide at top. and thirty-two feet long, was haulc d to the depot and loadid ou a flat car. Jl required two yoke of oxen and eight horses a a hole day to move it one anil one-half miles ou u broad triad wagon. The boaid was shipped to New York. Canada has increased the export duty on logs It I per 1000 feet. DAWN AND DUSK. I. Slender strips of crimson sky Near the dim horizon lie, Shot across with golden bars ' Benching to the fading stars; Soft the balmy west wind blow ) Wide the portals of the rose; Smell of dewy pine and fir, Lisping leaves nnd vines astir; ( )n the borders of the dark (Jayly sings the meadow-lark, Bidding nil the birds assemble Hark, the welkin seems to tremble! Suddenly the sunny gleams Break the jxippy-fettercd dreams Dreains of Van, with two feet cloven, Piping to the nymph and faun, Who, with wreaths of ivy woven, Nimbly dance to greet the dawn. II. Shifting shadows indistinct; leaves nnd branches, crossed and linked Cling like children, and embrace. Frightened nt the moon's pale face. In the gloomy wood begins Noise of insiict violins; Swarms of fire-flies flash their lamps In their atmospheric enmps, And the sad-voiced wlilppoorwill Kelioes back from hill to hill. Liquid clear alsive the crickets Chirping in the thorny thickets. Weary eyelids, eyes that weep. Wait tho magic touch of sleep; While the dew, in silence falling. Fills the air with scent of musk. And this lonely night bird, calling, Drops a note down through the dusk. Frank Dempster Sherman. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Rifle practice Pocket picking. Unredeemable bonds Vagabonds. Miss Fit isn't a very popular dress maker. The Chinaman is a realist. Ho takes his cue from nature. Lots of people are inconsistent enough to expect a mule to have horse sense. First impressions aro everything, par ticularly when one is collecting engrav ings. Any man can get his wife to tako ac tive exercise by giving her enough money to shop with. It is easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than for the savage tc get through his need of an idol. Smith "Jones, were you enlisted dur ing the war?" Jones "No, but my sympathies were." Burlington Free Prce. Why not. abbreviate Alaska to L. B., which whould sufficiently identify it an the place of the seal? Won Tranncrij,t. 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