f J - "TBI FOREST REPUBLICAN . . ! publlihed rry WtdBMdtf, kf J. E. WENK. Offlot In Smeatbaugh A Co.' Building LM ITltBET, TIONE8TA, Fa. Term, '. . . .BO ptrYur. ." "'ertpMom received for a ahortar period xirratpohdenr tollelted from aB hi eenritrjr. No nolle will be taken ofa rtt of the aaoamous -"'waiunicaiiODS. Mexican finances are in an improved , condition. The Italian Government is about to ex- elude American meat. Tho railroads hgfiaulcd ton per cent freight tlmn they did last year. lha Augusta (On.) Chronicle (Ionics that there is such a rnco as tlio Scotch- Irish. ''. Thero aro 7.73 per cent, of tlie peoplo of Massachusetts who ran neither rend v nor write. During, nineteen years 310 amendments to the Constitution have been introduced. ut only three have been adopted. . -1' . ' London papers devoted considcrahl. paco to the American centennial pro ceedings, and their tone was ono of re spect for this country. Oyster pirating along the. shores of Mnrylatid and Virginia has at length been broken up, but it took some hard knocks mid a great deal of money to do it. The lion. W. C. P. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, is to deliver the address at the dedication of the nat ional monument to the forefathers at Plymouth, Mass., on August 1. .Says the Chicago Sun : Thero aro not a few sharp and far-seeing business men wfro 'say that tlio United States ia on the evo. of the greatest railroad enterprise ever fcnown. 1 I Hero has been so much sickness in Vrego County, Kan., that tho Prnhnta Judge canceled all the druggists' permits in the county, hoping in that way to mend the general health. ' Tliree times as much coal as ever be . fore, was imorted into St. Petersburg last year, ami a Hnssian Government eom mitwi! is investigating tho liussian niincs to find out what ails them. . America can take in 2,000,000,000 more', coiners, remarks the hospitnblo Chiengo HeraUl, and find room for nil to build homes and mako gardens. We haven't settled a hundredth part of the country yet. ' l I ! the Detroit Free Press asserts t'.int . Chicago has set itself to absorb enough of its suburbs to advance to tho third placo among American municipalities, under tho next census. Owners of small towns in Illinois now lako them in at night. 1 Ho people of New York aro discuss ing tho proposition to hold a World's Fair in tho Mctropo'is in 1892, the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus. Many prominent mer chants of the big city favor the idea. Tio Canadian Government has given 40,000,000 acres of land to railroads, nnd is willing to give more, but, states the New York Uraphic, "emigrants prefer t inted States Ian.1 and can scarcely be induced to remain in the Dominion." England gets most of its ice now from Nojwuy, Scandinavian competition hav ing ihuost jrely destroyed tho business ot snippuig ico from Boston to England, which was once very profitable. Ico is sold in 'LbniTbn for froni fifty-eight to eighty-ouo cents per hundred weight. ' The thirty picked men from the marine corps, who have been sent over to Paris to act ns a guard in protecting the Ameri can exhibit, are said to represent the flower and prido of the mffrino corps, all being najivc Americans of good record,' martial bearing and soldierly deportment, i A number of important inventions ore coming out. Ono recently tested is nn earth which preserves whatever it sur- ounds for an iudefinito period. Em J balmiirg can bo done, it is said, as it used to be. douo in Egypt, and food can bo kept for years. Tho clay comes cheap. The doctors are deeply interested in it. . .Samoa, whu-K is attracting so much, at tention now, 1- generally regarded as a savage island, but a largo proportion of the peoplo aro Christians. A missionary says: "l would guarantee to take the first twenty men, women and children that I should meet with iu Samoa, nud I would back them in Bible knowledgo i .against any twenty I should meet in this country." U Findlay, Ohio, there are few houses ' to rent", and rents are high. This fact probably suggested to three young men of that place the brilliant scheme of get ting a monopoly of tho rentable houses and making a handsome "spec" in a legal way. During January and February they quietly based all the houses they could teeuro WJj'n such terms as gave them full cor J! and the power to sub let, anti onyiity i advanced the rents four or fivMullars a month. People had ' "- houses to live hi, so the scheme Vung houseTrust worked iust as kimttors exuected it would. VOL. XXII. NO. PEGGING AWAY. Oh I well I rememlwr the clustering face That in wonderment peered through the shoemaker's door When, to sound of his whiRtlo and tap of his hammer. Ho often regaled us with bits of his lore; As often he'd say, with a nod thnt was knowing. And a smllo that was bright as the sweet summer day : "I tnll you what, lads, there's nothing worth having But what you must get It by pegging away. "Yon may run the swift raeo and be counted the victor, And yet you hut get there a step at a time; And np the steep ladder where Fame keeps nor laurels, If you want to got ono you miiRt certainly ciimo. The world. It in only a broad piece of leather We must shape It ourselves to our last as wo may; And wo only can do it, my lads, as I toll you, By pressing and moulding and pegging away. illi! the years have been long, and the shoe makers vanished: Adown tho dark road we must Journey mono; hud 1 orten think of tho wisdom hid under His whimsical jost and his fntherlv tone. And often I'vo proved tho truth of his say ing, As misfortune and I together still strav. That all the best gifts tho world has to offer It only gives those who keep pegging away. The Advance. A DETECTIVE'S LUCK. If I had tho selection of a corns of do- tectives I should pick "out men who are known as lucky. Certain men aro thus characterized, and the term properly be longs to them. Certain men are unlucky, and the terra also properly belongs to them. i nave worked alongside ofheers who were 118 s'lnT nnl keen as men ever became. f wviu iierseverinff and Tire ess. v m Hart tliO Pluck Of a WHIT-inr nnd l,n n. liancc of a slave, and vet thpv wew "down on their luck." as the savior goes; that is, tho big things passed them by nnd fell into the hands of others. In detective work ono must havo courage and judgment. Ho must know human nature pretty well. Ho must bn f.iirlc shrewd and sharp. If ho is working a blind trail the rest must be left to luck. And tho luck and ill-luck of dnt peri va life is something wonderful. The luck we near or everyday. The ill-luck is suppressed as much as possible. In the monm of June, 1867, I was spending lew (lays wan relatives of mine on a farm near Obcrlin, Ohio. I had been in de tective business about five years. AV'e cot no newspapers nt tho farm, and I had not received a letter for ten days, and had not nearci inc least bit or news from tho out- sum worm, wnen uncle and I drove into me town one dny. On the wav in I imt OUt Of the Wllirnn imil iw.Lwl .... ft I i " !.. i u i-opy 01 ,r-',"'"' " lying on the uignway. i ne urst thing I stuv was an I 'Urn i ri t if .. 1 . j i i . s iiiuiuii m, i-eru. Indiana, several days before. An old nmn i,,i ..v- ,um ,,,iiii'u OI n i.irr,,, ........... u. , y. 1,1,1 me slightest clue u. u.c- mmuerer nai been discovered. No ono could say whether he was old or young, white or black, or which wav lie . - j ho had cone. It seemed n lwi,,.l.,r,. .... nnd I felt n bit sorry for the two Chicago . - " uim:, " "m ucvu sent ior to wort the CIISO OUt. jiioi. call l mat e alter rene hinrr Oberlin was at the Postoflice. I theS visited a barbershop, but the two chairs m-it; ui-cumcu, and l nail to wait n hour n-u uuiiiui-ij. iiavinnr notnincr to nrrunv . , I . , , ct "i j i . ; ' Kl,v uaruurs over iu uuims aau men turned my attention 1 . w "v vu.niu iu iuu ut-uri'SL rnnir I oegan at 111s reet lirst. He woro No. 8 to Chicago, and ho received a long sen caiters. ami tlioir w.r :. . I. ..it. n B .....j ..v. ut,y j,iur; m- a-uiu iw uw crime, intra was a ercat llenil ThnO ltnil nnnn. 1. - 11, .111. .... C ir- "jim uwu biacKeued. i.u.ercre irayeit about tho hot- luui, hiiu, as l ClUlie to look c oaer T ruat triey were old nnd threadbare. On tne lelt leg, which was nearest me. ).. stains. They might have been made by . . v ,, luc-uuMu, were several '"'im or acid. ncn tho man sat up straight after his shave I saw that his coat was also old, and I looked over to his hut on tho hook to find it very rusty. The barbers were not speaking to either of the men, so that both must be strangers in mo town, jiiy man had reddish hair, which ho had had clipped close before I came in. His neck was sunburned and dirty, and, after looking him over from toe to crown, 1 said to mvself : ' This chap h:is all the looks of n fessional tranui. Th lit Bllif n-oa ... 1. 1 I pro- . .. -------I- - 1'iuKauiy mm, uui, ten to ono no stole those gaiters. Wonder if he can enough to pay the barber." scrapo up 1 he bill was thirty-five ceuts. Tin man gave mo a furtive look as he mt i of the chair, and while being brushed he en in ins pocKets ior change. He had two ten-cent shinplasters, but as these were not enough lie half turned from ... and nsnecl a greenback out of his iiocket The barber had to no out to phnnm ii an.l li ...... ... r ... imiu vi as so impatient and ner vous that he could not stand still. When the barber returned he had the change f.ir a iweuiy-doiiar note. He begun to count u our, uui the Mrunirer muttered his en.,. fidence that it was all right, nnd renel.e,l out for the pile nnd crammed it into his vest pocket, lie was about to go, when i rose up ami said: -My mend, l want to havu a few words with you, if you are not in a bi iirry. But I am!" ho relied past me without looking nie'in the face. . . - .----e. i ilut you U havo to wait just the same. I want to know who vim ..... " "There was a back 1 He wheeled and sprang for it, but it was locked. As he turned ou mo again he pulled a revolver from his bosom and leveled it on me, and tired a shot which went over my head and through th dow. Beforo ho coul.l fir a iif.uin T lin1 him jammed against the wall, one hand hold of the weapon and the other on his throat, and I choked him until he sank down in a heap. AVho did he turn out to bet The ludiiuia murderer who had RE ST t. TIONESTA, been dodging about tho country for six days, nnd who had run the gauntlet of a hundred officers. It was blood on his trousers, though we did not havo to prove it, as he made a full confession. It was simply my good luck. It was simply tho ill luck of two Cleveland detectives wuo reached Obcrlin two hours too late. About fifteen years ago, while con nected with the force in Chicago, a jewelry houso on State street was robbed of $12,000 worth of jewelry. Aside from this there was a package of Govern ment bonds amounting to over $17,000, which had been deposited in the safo for security. The robbery was committed by professional cracksmen, who left their tools behind but no clue. I was at this timent Howling Green, Kentucky, nfter a counterfeiter, nnd I read an account of tho robbery in a Louisville paper. It wasn't my job, nnd I didn't give it any particular thought. I had traced a no torious counterfeiter down into Ken tucky and located him nt Bowling Green. At least, I traced him to that town, but there I lost the trail for a few days. I got a falso clue, which led mo down to Frefiklin, and when I started to return I took nn accommodation train. It was nt night, nnd there was but one coach on tho train, and that contained only five passengers besides myself. Three of these were natives, sure enough, whilo the other two talked about a coal mine in Tenncsseee, nnd seemed to own land in that State. I gave them littlo attention, being three scats in tho rear, nnd was talking with tho conductor on crenend matters, when tho two men suddenly be came interested in something one of them held in his hand. Their heads were to gether, and they were evidently deeply interested, when tho report of a pistol was heard, followed bv a cry of ngonv and a yell of alarm. Tho object of their curiosity was a derringer, and it had ac cidentally' been discharged, the bullet entering tho leg of ono of tho men just nbove the knee. In his pain and fright tho wounded man sprang up, and turned fiercely on the other, with the exclama tion : 'Curse you, but you did thnt on pur pose I You wanted nil the swag to your self." The conductor and I were beside them in a minute. The wounded man fell back on tho seat, nnd he evidently re gretted tho break he had made a few sec onds before, for he said, as we came up: "Tom, old fellow, I had my own fintrer on the trigger, nnd pulled it off. You are not a bit to blitmc." "But what about the 'swag?' I dc manded, as I stood over them "He meant our coal mine," replied the one called lorn "Yes; wo are partners in a coal miuc, auuca uio wounded man. "Oh I that's it? Well, let's see what can be douo for you. It was a bad wound so bad that knew his leg would have to come off, as tne mg bullet Had shattered the bone, and I suggested to the conductor that he 1 r..-i . . . . wiiivc as ium nine ns ne dared to llowlllig ureen, wnero medical attendance could be had. To mv surmisn the me., nv,l I . . 1 . . to 1)0 nut nlF nr. anmn hi. rim..,- ,...,,. ... nenr n f,ir, .,.;.,- .i.. .... noetor rnn I.I mnnnm. tl,n .....II enough, and that the quietness of the country would be tho best for the patient This satisfied me that thev were sns,,ie. ionirchnr.ielepa n,1 T .,.,nn,i ti, . ii.i,iuiui.u ( iiu nut mil ' n .i , , , ,, . . i w ii-iiiuve liic one nnn nnmmiirr imrt to a seat at the rear of the coach, and to search infti. 'I'hr. mm i.a.i i the Other the rterrimrr.,. on,l l.f. T t hrnmr i sr-nreliinrr I 1,,,,.1,1 n the stolen bonds and jewelry. It was sheer luck again. Four of our men were out on the r trn 1 . Imt rloo . . " ---.-j v va liiou DC.I.-U13, J hfv wrn ammrtc.l T,r, -c.. j - - I - iiuic uiiuc wuuo i picKca tnem up in the South. Tho fellow who was shot not only lost his ii'tr mir ma ntn 'i"h rtim. O uau.a " IW) 1 UV lit Ul VI ueai oi newspaper talk about my shrewd ness, but I didn't deserve a word of nrniae Tl.n xn,. c;,l., Tho ripo fruit dropped into mv hands. Thine-s full tW. w,.r, it, matter wnat business ho is enrraeed in. Ono of tho bits of luck which fell to mo several years ago.and which was much talked about at tho time, came about in a very singular wav. I hail heen s.r down to Augusta, Arkansas, to identify a mm who nad Deennrrested there. and was supposed to bo a robber wanted in Chi cago. He did not prove to bo the man we hoped ho was, and I was making readv iu rciuru wnen a resident or the town, who was an old acquaintance of mine, put forward a speculation. He had iust mir- chasod a saw null a few miles down White jtiver, nnd he believed there was bii money to be made iu buying a large tract of timber continguous to the mill. This tract was for sale ut a very low figure, but my friend could not raise the cash. The result of our talk was that we took a boat. next morning and were left at tho mill landing. Whilo he was overseeing some change of machinery I started out to get some idea of the value of the timber. The first thing I knew I was lost in the forest. and I did just what all other people do under tho circumstances bended the wrong way. Instead of going toward the river, I went away from it. It was in July, and although tho mosquitoes nearly devoured me, there was no danger of suf fering from the inclemency of the weather. It was about 10 o'clock in tho morning when I started out. and bv mid-afternoon I had walked at least ten miles, and knew that I was entirely bewildered. I couldn't Keep a staight course for tho creeks and ?uu " ua vas and n i ... , . n.o juieai. hu ii so dense mat there was no sighting tho sun to guide me. It was just 5 o'clock in tho afternoon when I reached a good-sized stream, and the first thing I saw was an old house boat tied to the bank. There was sni'oko coming out of a stovepipe thrust through the roof. and I congratulated myself that I had reached shelter and something to eat. There was a lilauk reaching from boat to shore, and I ascended it and entered the cabin unannounced. A white man and a negro were seated in the rude room, and a lire had just been kindled iu the cook stove. There was a door at tho other side of the boat. It stood wide Ouen. and the RE PA., WEDNESDAY, Instant the mon caught sight of me both sprang for the door. In the rush they bumped into each other nnd both rolled to the floor. Tho white man was tho quicker of tho two, nnd while I stood looking nnd wondering ho scrambled up and flung himself into the water nnd swam to the opposite shore. "Doan't shoot ! For do Lawd's sake donn't kill me!" yelled the negro, as he rolled over and over on the floor. "What docs this mean?" I demanded. "It means dat I surrenders!" he re plied. "Very well. Now sit up and tell me who you are nnd what you are doing here." "I had to come along, boss. I didn't want to, but dcy said dey would dun kill me." "Who owns this bont?" "Why, dat Harding gang, in co'se." "And what are you doing here?" "Dun hidin' out, I spose." I was so stupid that I did not realize what luck had come to me until the negro gave it nwny. Then I secured him against escape and searched the boat, nnd in that old hulk I found over $0000 worth of dry goods, clothing, boots nnd shoes. icwelrv. hordware nnd other stuff, the proceeds of a uozen biir robberies alonir the river. There was a gang of four men engaged in tho work, and the negro wns their cook. Tho boat was hidden away in a branch of the White River to wait for a rise of water to get down the Mississippi, and three of tho gang were off that day to spot a country store some seven miles distant. The negro and I stood gunrd all night, for I soon found that I could trust him. but if the fellows returned to the neighbor hood we did not see them. Next day we got the boat down to the mill, which was hardly four miles away, and from thence she was taken to Clarendon and the goods returned to their owners.as far as possible. Tho robbers were all identified by name nnd person by the negro, and within a few weeks were cither captured and sent to prison or run into tho swamp and shot uown. jseui Xork Sun. WISE WORDS. Earnestness is tho path to immortality. Friendship is the highest decree of ic-i luunuu iii Bocieiy. lucre is no better excess in the world than the excess of gratitude. Politeness is ns natural to delicate turcs as perfume is to flowers. Bring your will to your fate, and suit your mind to your circumstances. The surest way to please is to forget a dvu u iu uiiiiiv uuiy oi tuners. Shun idleness; it is the rust thnt at taches itself to the most brilliant metals, No principle is more noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a true obedience. There is a power a hundred times more powerful than that of bayonets; it is the power of ideas. If we had no defects wo should not take so much pleasure in discovering muse oi oinors. e know the value of a fortune when we have gained it, and that of a friend when we have lost it. Those who seek happiness in ostenta tion nnd dissipation tire like those who prefer tlte light of a candle to the sjilendor oi tne sun. A weapon is anything that can serve to wound; and sentiments arc perhaps the most cruel weapons man cau employ to wound nis lellow man. Nothing sharpens the arrow of sarcasm so keenly as the courtesy that polishes it. No reproach is like that we clothe with a smile and present with a bow. A homely man of merit is never re pulsive. As soon as ho is named his physique is forgotten ; the mind passes mrougn it to see the soul. I hinkers aro as scarce ns cold : but he whose thought embraces all his sub ects. who pursues it uninterruptedly nud 'fear less of consequences, is a diamond of enor mous size. Signals Amoncr Primitive Races. 1 A .. J 1 , . , . iv. imiree uas lately been collecting in formation as to the use of signals by primi tive peoples, and the facts he has brought together are summarized in Science. It appears that American Indians use rising smoke to give signals to distant friends. A small lire is started, and as soon as it burns fairly well grass and leaves are heaped on the top of it. Thus a large olumu of steam and smoke arises. By covering the lire with a blanket tho In dians interrupt the rising of the smoko at regular iutervals, and the successive clouds arc used for conveying messages. Recently attention has been called to the elaborate system of drum signals used by the Cameroon negroes, by means of which long messages are sent from vil lage to village. Explorations in the Congo msin havo shown that this system urevails inrougnoiit central Alnea. The Bakuba use large wooden drums, on which differ. nt tones are produced bv drumsticks. Sometimes tho uatives "converse" in this ay for hours, and from the energy dis- laved by the drummers, nnd the raniditv oi uie successive blows, it seemed that the . ..... . . . . . " onversation was very animated. 1 he t.alla, south of Abyssinia, have rums stationed at certain points of the ruails leading to the neighboring States. Special watchmen are appointed, who have to beat the drum on the approach of enemies. Ceochi, who observes tliis cus tom, designated it as a "system of tele graphs. " The same use of drums is found iu New Guinea. From tho rhythm nud rapidity of the blows the natives know at once whether an attack, a death, or a festival is unnounced. The same tribes uso columns of suioke or (at night) tires to convey messages to distant friends. Tho latter are also used in Australia. Columns of smoke of different forme are used for signals by the inhabitants of Cane York and the neigboriug island. Iu Victoria hollow trees are filled with fresh leaves, which are lighted. Tho signals thus inudo aro understood by friends. In eastern Australia the move ments of a traveler are made kuowu by columns of smoke, und so was tho dis covery of a whale iu Portland bay. PUBLICAN. JUNE 20, 1889. THE TARANTULA KILLERS. GIANT MEXICAN WASPS WHOM THE DEADLY SPIDEB FEARS. The Spider is Paralyzed by the Wasp'i. Bting Tho Ilody Server, nn a Store -bonne for Young AY asps. A New Yorker says, in the Sun, speak ing of the remarkable insects known as tho Mexican wasp : "You'll find that re markable insect wherever thero are tarantulas, for i. seems to owe the per petuation of its kind to tho presence of that king of spiders. In fact, it is known by the name of 'tarantula killer' in Texas and other parts where the big spider has iU habitnt. The most pugnacious birds of the air give the tarantula a wide berth, nnd the fiercest beasts are content to leave, him unmolested. In fact, tho tarantula seems to defy the entire animal kingdom, with the exception of this giant wasp. The appearance of a hawk sailing over a barnyard will not cause a more sudden or frantic scattering of a brood of chickens to a place of safety than will the approacn ot a tarantula killer among a colony of these spiders. Whether tho tarantulas can see their enemy a long way off, or whether they hear the hum of its wirigs, or smell the dreaded insect, I don't know, but whenever a tarantula is seen scampering like mad for his den and closing down its trap door without delay, it is ten to one that a tarantula killer will bs seen sailing along that way a few seconds later. "It flies up leisurely, iU reddish-brown wings spread to their full three-inch sweep, and contrasting strikingly with its dead-black legs and body. The hiding of the tarantula in his den does not worry the wasp a bit. It lights at the trap doo'r and has it open as quickly ns the taran tula can open it himself, and walks straightway in. The big hairy, deadly spider has no terrors for the wasp. The quality of the wasp's sting is shown iu a startling way by its effect on the taran tula, for in five seconds after the killer has entered the spider's den the tarantula has succumbed to the thrusts of the sting, and is dragged out by the the wasp as a butcher would drag a dead pig out of the pen. "But tho strange part of the quick knocking out of the spider by the wasp is that while the former will never enjoy the pleasures of life again, he is not dead. Tho poison the wasp injects into tlie tarantula does not kill him, but throws him into a trance from which he will never awaken. The tarantula is nctually embalmed alive, and if the subsequent processes the wasp has in store for him prove abortivo ia their working, as they sometimes do, tho tarantula will remain in that doad and alive condition ever af terward. " Sometimes it happens to suit the tarantula killer, when it does up its spider in the latter's den, to leave him there to carry out the rest of the programme, and usnally it drags the tarantula to some other part of the country, frequently a mile dis tant, although tho spider is many times the wasp's bulk and weight. When the big wasp has dragged tho spider to the spot it has selected, it punctures its vic tim's body at the base of one of its hind legs, and lays aa" egg deep ia the open ing. The wasp then digs a hole in the ground and buries the tarantula. Some times it hides the spider in a cleft in the rocks, and plasters the opening thick with mud. When the egg is hatched in side the spider the result is n most vora cious grub, which at once begins to cat its way out of its storehouse. It is as if the spider had been kept on ice, nice and fresh in all its flesh and juices. The wasp's greedy larva devours everything to the right and left of it, and nil that is ahead of it, and when it emerges from the tarantula's head there is nothing left of tho spider but its hideous hairy shell. The grub digs itself out of the spider's grave, and iu time becomes itself a tarantula killer, and docs the same act for a future Bupply of wasps that was done for it. "Once in a great while the wash's errr wm not nutcn, but that doesn't change the condition of the tarantula. I saw a tarantula in Texas that was found iu a mud plastered rock live years ago. A wasp had dtqiosited its egg iu tho spider's body, but it had been abortive. It is not ;. A i . , , ... . . . . known how long the tarantula had lain in its trance when it was discovered, but when I saw it-there were no more signs of decay about it than there are about. lecping dog or cut. It was full and plump, its legs limber and flexible, nnd its eyes bright. All the elements of life were present, iipparentlv. and vet the pider was practically us dead us the proverbial door nail. "As far as I could leurn and observe iu southern Texas, the wasp's temper is good, and it never shows any inclination t; re sent the preseuce of mau except when it has an embalmed tarantula iu tow. Then it will nhow iu displeasure if it is ap proached too closely, und will mnke frantic das'aes at nv intruder, onciiing its red wings us it exhibits the signs of its anger, us if as a warning. I was told of a -Mexican who was thing by one of these wasps ou an occasion of that kind. He was stung in the m k. Paralysis of one side ensued and tho victim tinailv ili.l "These tarantula killers live on cldnr flowers, the bloom of the wild Virginia creeper, aud similar flowe.-s. I counted i ll ..f )... 1 i u. uiu iii-uiL-uiiuus lasccis on o.n? clump of elder flowers one day, and you may always be sure of seeing them iu uuv of tho Southwestern regions where elder or Virginia creeper abound. The taran tula killer is a good two inc hes aud a half long, und he is as handsome as he is ter rible. The Joneses aro ut t"-ie head of the Euglish clergy list with l.W representa tives, while the Sn:it!is follow with After them coiucs tjo Williainses 2'J5 und tho Kvunses with 104. ''t. Smiths make such an unexpected show ing because of there being almost none iu Wales. Protestant missions are found In but two of the republics of Ceutrul America --Nicuragua and Guatemala. S1.50 PER ANNUM. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. TO BnOIT. A BEEFSTEAK. Have the steak cut an inch and a half thick. Lay it on a double broiler over a clear fire and let it become seared on both sides, to prevent tho escape of the juice j then turn it constantly for ten or twelve minutes. Do not season until it is put on tho hot platter. New Tori 7"w. C0I.D SLAW. Cut the cabbogc fine, and season it with salt and pepper. Put it in an earthen ware bowl. Bub together a teaspoouful of flour, and butter tlie size of a walnut ; pour over it two tablespoonfuls of boil ing water, and stir smoothly on the stove ; put it on the back of the stove, where it will keep hot but not boil, and add two tablespoonfuls of vinegar. Bent light the yolks of two eggs, a teaspoonful of sugar, half a teaspoonful of mustard, and two tablespoonfuls of cream. Mix this wit the hot mixture; replace on the stove, stirring well; let it come to aboil, and pour whilo hot over the cabbage. Prairie Farmer. BATJCES. The simplest sauce for meats, fish and vegetables is made from water, molted butter nnd flour, seasoned with salt and pepper. Great care and exactness are re quired in making sauces. The flour must be corked in the butter, and tho hot water added gradually. A good rule is, ono pint of hot water, one-half cup of butter, two tablespoonfuls flour, salt and pepper, for the water, milk may suosuiuiea, wmcn gives white sauce eggs, parsley, lemon, mustard, oysters and celery may be added, each giving a name to the sauce. Mint sauce is made from the tender leaves of mint, chopped fine and soaked an hour iu sweetened vinegar one cup cnopped mint, one-fourth cu sugar, one-half cup of vinegar. Jktr Free Press. OLD PASniOSBD YANKEE BREAD. Sift two pounds of best flour on bread trnv. Make a hollow placo in the centre ana drop in a piece of lard the size of tablespoon. Dissolve one yeast enko in little wann water and put that in with tlie lard and one teaspoonful of salt and half a teacup of sugar. Then mix it with lukewarm water until It is thick and tur it out on your molding board and mold it till it shines and does not stick to the board. You cannot mold it too much Then put it back on tho tray. Cover i with a cloth not very heavy and put it I a warm place till morning. When it be comes very light put it on tho board again and mold it down till it is solid Set it in a warm place, and as soon ns it rises nicely mold it ngaiu nud put it in buttered pans ami bake Immediately This takes a little time, but you hay good bread. BOAST SPRING LAMB, SUNT BATJCE. Lamb is now reasonable enough in price to be served twice a week. Small families will find it profitable to buv a It and loiu; the leg to be roasted and the loin cut up and served ns chops, or the loin may be roasted nnd cutlets mndo ol the leg. Lamb requires salt, pepper und the best of butter added beforo roasting, The butter may be rolled in little balls ot cakes, then dredged with flour. The roast should be nicely browned on tho outsuio. Mint 6auce is easily made. Chop up throe or four sprigs of mint, add it to a gilt or vinegar, add also half leuapoiiuiui oi sugar. Mint sauoo may lie made in large quantities nnd bottled for use. The ;common spearmint is the kind of mint mostly used iu sauces, and is supposed to be the mint spoken of iu the isew lestnraent: pennyroyal and pepper mint are members of the same family Kea York Sun. cniciiEN pie. Cut the chicken in pieces, unjoliiting uiiu cutting the back Into four parts Wash thoroughly and placo over i moderate tire, covering with cold water ana adding pepper and salt. Boil until tender, when the chicken can be removed Adda little thickening stirred with flour and water nnd boiled iu tho liuuor for a gravy. Add a little butter if desired. ior the crust make a light dough, s for baking powder biscuit, by rubbing butter two-thirds the size of an egg into threo cups of flour, three teaspoons of bakiug powder, a pinch of salt, mixing with sweet milk suthciently stiff to roll out. Place your chicken in your baking pan, which should hold ut least threo quarts. Cut a narrow strip of tho dough uud place around the top edge. Add enough of the gravy to make tho pie moist. Cover the pie with the balance of the dough, cutting a long slit iu tho center, and ressing the outer edges securely together. Keep inn moderate oven from half to three quarters of an hour, or until it has boiled nn and the crust is done. Serve from the pan in which it is cooked. norsMioi.D MINTS. Drain pipes and a! :es that are sour or impure, may be cleaned with lime wa ter or curbolic add. To keep eggs cool is a help in making frosting. Set them in the refrigerator after separating whites and yolks; they will beat iu half tlie time. To clean windows, wash them first with tepid water and a sponge; then dry them with old linen, und rub them clean; nol- ish them with a newspaper. If you wish to keep a sharp knife don't put it iu hot grease; stir your pi it aloes while frying, or turn meat, with u fork or old case knife kept ou purpose. A pasto for cleaning brass may bo made by mixing one part oxalic acid and six parts of rotten stone with equal parts of tram oil and spirits of turpentine. Corks cut thin and stewed in grease and placed iu their way, or dried sponge iu small pieces fried iu grease, or dipped in honey and laid iu their haunts, will re move rats. Thick brown paper should be laid uudor carpets, if tho patVnt lining is not to be had. It saves wear and prevents the inroad of moths, which, however, will seldom give trouble if Halt is sprinkled wound the edges wutu the cuipct is laid. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Out Sqnare, on. Inch, od Insertion 1 M On Square, on Inch, on month 1 00 On 8nre, one Inch, three month....,,,., e 00 One Sqaire, on Inch, on year 10 00 Two Squares, on jeer Is 00 Quarter Colnmn, one rear 80 00 Half Colnmn, on year to 00 On Colnmn, one year 100 OO Lepal adrerttiemcnt tea cent per line each In sertion. Marriage and death notice gratia. All bill for yearly advertisement collected nnar terly. Temporary adrertltement must be paid la adrance. Job work -own on delivery. IN NATURE'S SOLITUDES. Within the hollow of the hills The silent river flows, Its listless water softly thrills ,' The flnR that In it grows; Beyoud Its sloping banks, where bloom Red lilies, crimsorr died, The low pines cast their fragrant gloom Alongthe mountain side. High peaks beyond them gleam with snow. Above the rocky line Where ritless winds forever blow, Anil sapless mosses shine; But here, whore grasses slowly bend Before the whispering breeze, From clover tuf ts to daisies, wend Tho pollen-dusted bees. The birds In yonder maple sing In low, entrancing notes. While jxrised aloft on tireless wing, A watchful eagle floats; And higher still, in purple deeps Of sunlit, summer sky, Like windless sails whero ocean sleeps. The white ciwuds moveless lie. No sign of Unman life Is seen, And save for bird and bee, And whisper of the grosses green Wherewith the wind is free, There is no sound, and all the place Is full of peaceful rest, And that supremo, effaceful grace. Which says, "God knoweth best." Yet man will win this listless stream Sometime to do his will, And golden harvest sheaves will gleam, Along yon sloping hill; And orchard trees, with blossoms sweet, Will hear low-spoken words, What time young folk, with lingering feet List to the mating birds. T. S. Collier, in Youth's C'ompaniop II OI Oil OF THE DAY. Lays of spring Fresh eggs. A bouncing baby A rubber doll. A stern necessity A boat's tiller. Motto for a cooper "Hoop it tub." Threo of a kind A cow nnd two calves. Iu their journey through life many take the bridal path. It is not imperative that an omnibus bill should have a rider. Tho stock farmer is a man of good breeding. Merchant Traveler. Employers who would keep upon their feet must not allow their hands to be idle. Bill Tell's boy is remembered in history because he had an arrow escape. Texas SiJ'tings. If nono but bakers played tho game of baseball one might readily account for the mulliii'. Would it be the proper thing to speak of a literary contest as a "skull race?" The Ocean. "Better late than never" is hardly a suitable motto for tho man who travels much by rail. Tho literary reviewer can blow up a magazine with entire personal safety. Merchant Traveler. Somo merchants appear to get along swimmingly while others cau scarcely keep, themselves ufloat. If you should meet a lion, either hit him hard or run; don't stop to stick pins in him. Atchison Glotie. It docs not augur well for tho success of a social gathering to have many bores in it. fttltimore American. When n good dog points to came tho hunter's gnu is expected to speak to tho point. Atw Orleans ISeayune. A youth thought it would be fun To fool with iui unloaded gun. All friends are invited. Merchant lYaveler. Copper tips keep shoes from beiug run out nt the toes, and men from being run in at the station house. Mail and Ex press. AVe would like to know if a house- painter by any license of speech can bo called a huc-er of wood. Binghamtvn Jicjvbliean. Doubtless no true soldier would con sent to uct as a fence; aud, yet, such a one has often been known to do picket duty. Detroit Free JVess. When a woman steps out on tho back porch with her arms rolled up in her apron it is n sign to her neighbor that sho las something to toll her. Atchison A clergyman's prescription to young men who desire to get on in tho world is o "mix brains with self-denial." That's good doctrine for those who havo tlie brains to siui t with. It seems us If the proper thing to do. upon discovering tho ujiiirouch of a yclone, would be to secrete one's self in cellar and wait fur the affair to blow oyer. Detroit Free 1'nsa. Jtldgv "At first vim stole ti(). nnd then ufterward c'40. Arc you never un it to do better?" Criminal "Why, our lloiinr. I .till l.i.ti.. ili.il .in.., I... "FtuMwIi' DluetU r. Bronson "Why, I thought you knew munis?" Ilarkius "1 do." Bronson Well, you didn't bow as wo passed him moment ago." Ilarkius "Bcc-auso 1 nowu him too well." lurjer's Uinir. Highwayman "Hold up your hands!" cticstiian '-.lv dear sir. ' J have ust turned from Oklahoma." "The deuce you have! Well, you can get a good freo lunch on the next block. Good even ing." Lincoln Journal. Judge "You are charged with run ning a game of chance. What have you tos.iyf" Accused "It was not a game of ciiauce, your Donor. No outsiders had the slightest possible cliaueo of win liing." Omau UWIJ. Miss Silly (to her lover) "You had better be careful when you come up to the house now, Charlie. Father has got a big dog." Charlie "When did beget himi" "Yesterday. Ho bought bini of Miss Flirty's father." "Oh, that dog, hey? 1 ain't afraid of him; he hasu't any teeth." LouiscilU Post. 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