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S1.50 PER ANNUM. kepub r , V - j The consumption of bcr and wWrtkj ' la rapidly incrcasiag in India. - g jbvi "Will tho supply last?" ia the question VJfyhe natural gas )coplo art asking. J -The fiimous bntanipal gardens at' Edin burgh, Scotland, have just been opened to thJiblic. un Sundays. - ' : ' Pome 200 miU'S of road are to be built jr thl year in Pennsylvania to develop' coal, iron and. timber lands. ' ' It is predicted that Manitoba will be come one of tho great mutton and wool raising centers of the earth. I Postmaster-General Wanamaker thinks . it wiser to improve the postal service than to establish one-cent postage. I Tho Argentine Republic is growing ulurmcd over tho great influx of Italians . 'of the poorest class and tho Government hns issued orders limiting tho arrivals to 200 per month. .1. James (dou Bennett, of the New York, London and Paris Herald, wants ' the United States to gend a strong corp. of American picchanics to the Paris Ex position to see and learn things. An American sea contain thinks he has vjounu srgaugc 01 mo nearness 01 an ice- """apcrg by the use of a foghorn, and the con- -M. sentient echo. - If sn. reinnrkn thn Np Yor Voice, it will prove a very valuable covery.- Prospective tynigrnuls ;.re reading with much interest n paragraph which has been going; .the rounds of tho press, to tho effect that every "man who settles in Colojnbia, Central America, gets sis dollar's a month, 250 acre of land. a cow, two pigs and a plow. ' The action of 'tho Connecticut House iff Inviting a New York woman to partici- P pato JiiawW House debate on woman suf .. frago IS", declares tho New York Oraphie, without a preccdont-in the eccentricities of Legislators. The Connecticut men were exceptionally gallant. ' ' -, I mo greatest surpnso oi the day is the ! statement thut tho Eiffel tower at tho Paris Exposition is not in fact, tho Eiffel tower, but' tho Monguier tower. It is al leged that it was a young engineer of that j name in Eiffel's employment who first con Is ceived the idea and worked it out. According to BradtreeCt, the abandon ' fmeut of silk culture in California is for shadowed by the action of the Governor of that State in vetoing an appropriation of $10,000 made by the Legislature to Oiirry on cxn.-riincnts. Tho reason given i that California cannot compete with China or' Japan in that industry. V .... . . .. The-WTi'hiugtoii Memorial Arch, that . a. .. tisnoVcry sure of being erected there, wil nofV-'ouo of the first-class works of art in thb "world, observes the New York ' ' Sun, but it will be the finest thing of the kiud'ou this' bide of the Atlantic Ocean. The popular subscriptions to jfte fimd in its behalf arc still coming incly. n The seals of. Behring Sea are in great ,' , - . need of protection. Their earlier haunts " . among the Georgian Islands, off the coast of New South Wales, the South Shetland . Islands, and the other places in the South ' V jf 6ea.fr-are almost deserted, and having t$r taken refuge in Mehriug Sea, they are v ' threatened there too with extermination. The musicians have every reason, (hinks the Brooklyn Citizen, to rise in their might and slay the inventor of the phono graph. Large ones are been constructed thatTfill correctly register the playing of Orst -class orchestras, and the stage man ager has but to turn one crank on the stage instead of ten in the orchestra to get superior music. Bcnjamiiur Hurst, of tho Pennsyl vania Haijid lias just celebrated the close of his fifty years' active service as a loco- motive engineer, and he is not ready, by - -efiJng way, to retire. He is called Uncle Ben by nil who know him, and he is still at work running a first-class passenger fain. His eye is as clear as ever, and ha I stands as erect as a cadet. j During the last twenty-five yeurs Queen . Yiutoria has captured . 447 agricultural .prizes, with stotk from her Windsor farms, " S,he takes great interest in cattle shows, and is a good judge of Shorthorns and Jerseys. At Windsor, on Aber geldiefarin and at Osborne she has herd is herds 'hery , a pict- of cattle worthy a royal owner. The at Osborne is uow stocked with uresijue herd of West Highland cattle Ather strange way of raising the jvlnd iu Spain is a tax of twelve per cent, on money left to b'e expeuded iu masses for the repose of the soul of the deceased. This may be to discourage such bequests, for a shrewd observer of Spanish affairs "i'!,s.: . "More money bus been expended V' ps than would have covered Spain oaus. even ou a unuau .taw w inte and extravagance. PLANT A TREE. He who plants a tree Plants a hope. Rootlet up through fibres blindly gropoi Leaves unfold into horizons free. So man's life must climb From the clods of time Unto hmvens sublime. Canst thou prophesy, thou little tree, What the glory of thy boughs shall bof He who plants a tree Plants a joy; Plants a comfort that will never cloy, Every day a fresh reality. beautiful and strong, To whose shelter throng Creatures blithe with song. If thou coultlst but know, thou happy tree, Of the bliss that shall inhabit thee. H who plants a tree He plants a peace. Under its green curtain jargons cease, Leaf anil zephyr uiurmur soothingly; Shadows soft with sleep Down tired eyelids creep, Balm of slumber deep. Never hast thou dreamed thou blessed tree, Of tho benediction thou slialt be. He who plants a tree He plants youth; Vigor won for centuries, in ooth; Life of time, thnt hints eternity! Boughs their strength uprear, Now Bhoote every year On old growths appear.' Thou shalt toach the ages, sturdy tree, Youth of soul Is immortality. Ho who plants a tree He plants love; Tents of cooluess spreading out above Wayfarers, he may not live to see Gifts that grow are best; Hands that bless are blest; Plant; Lifo does, the rest I " Heaven and earth help him who plants a tree, And his work its own rewardvhall be. Lucy Larcom, in the I'hiladetphia Ledyer. THE LAST RESORT. BY HELEN FOKHE8T OltAVEB. was a sunshiny afternoon in n May. buds late The breezes that wooed apple- into blossom, far off m country wildernesses, served but to send clouds of dust along tho city streets. But over head the sky was blue and bright, all dappled with white clouds, and Miss Gill, Mrs. Aramis's forewoman, looked up with a sigh, and thought of the old farm in Ulster County, where she used to live many, many years ago, when she was a girl. Mrs. Aaron Aramis was a fashionable dressmaker iu Montagu street. Miss Gill was second in command, and there were six young girls who sewed in a big back room, and a couple of "litters to super intend. The spring fashions were advantage ously displayed upon various wire forms and waxen dummies around the show room. Mrs. Aramis was in a curtained recess by a window, checking off a large order from tho South. Miss Gill stood behind the counter, and a pale, pretty young women, dressed iu mourning that had lost its first freshness, was talking earnestly to her. "So you have no vacancies at all?" said she. Miss Gill shook her head. "None," she replied. But I think if von were to apply at Sevcrell's, next door" The pretty girl colored vividly. "The place would not suit me," said she. "The floor-walker " And then she stopped suddenly. "Yes, I understaud," said Miss Gill. "Ho is rather disagreeable. I wonder," she added, within herself, "if this is the girl I've heard of, . that old Pitch, the floor-walker, was determined to marry, whether she would or not. She is very pretty. And I'm sorry for her, poor thing!" "I don't know what to do," wistfully added the girl. "I am very poor, so very poor, and there are so few ways for a woman to cam her living. If one could drown oneself, and be done with it. But starvation is such a slow death." At that moment tho creak of heavy footsteps sounded on the stairs, and in trudged a stout, elderly woman, witn a black felt bonnet, and short gruy curb, blown into sad confusion by the riotous spring winds. "Is this Mrs. Aramis's place?" de manded she. Miss Gill bowed courteously. "I've heard a deal about it," said the elderly woman. "Mrs. Judge Jexou, out our way, bought a maroon silk droes here once. It was dretful tasty. And I was calculating to buy a black silk dress myself. We hain't no good dress makers at Eventown, so I sort o' thought I'd buy it ready made. Got any nice ones? Miss Gill came out from behind the counter. It was true that the old woman's bonnet was cheap iu material, and ancient iu make, and her general attire entirely deficient iu effect; but these eccentric people were often tho best customers. Miss Gill drew forward a handsome costume, ubovo which was a wax face simpered with perpetual smiles. "How do you like this!" she said. Old Mrs. Kliun started. "I 'most thought it was alive, at first," she said. "That's an awful pretty dress," peering through Iter spectacles at the loops and pulls and lace cascades .that decorated the rich material. "What's the price?" "We could sell this," said Miss Gill, making a mental calculation, "for one hundred and tweutv-tive dollars. It is worth more, but " Again Mi's. Bliun started. "A hundred and twenty-five dollurs!" she echoed, "Why, that' more thau lilinu s best team o horses cost, couldu't think o' giving that for dress." Miss Gill pushed the wax-headed figure back, nut without somo scorn in hur movement, and took a big pasteboard box from a drawer. "Here is a bargain," said she Mi-s. Blinn pricked up her ears at the word. "A surah silk, richly trimmed with jets, which we can afford to sell at seventy-five dollars." Mrs. Blinn s countenance fell. "Tain't no use talkin'," said she. "I can't affort no such price as that." Miss Gill closed the drawer with a bong. ( "May I ask " began she. "I'd set my price at twenty-five dollars," said tho customer. "I don't want none o' your fancy fixin's. Some thing good anil plain would suit me!" "We don't deal in any such quality of goods as that," said Miss Gill, elevating her nose and compressing her lips. "I might give thirty, if I was put to it." "Quite out of the question," snid Miss Gill. "Our price for making up the material alone is thirty dollars." Mrs. Blinn sighed, took up her um brella and alligator bag, and slowly with drew. Miss Gill uttered a sniff of dis dain. "Tho idea!" said she. "I don't know what pcoplo expert," observed Mrs. Aramis, from her recess. Out on the pavement, however, as Mrs. Blinn was unhitching the horse and gathering up the time-worn reins, a pale, pretty young womun accosted her with timid eagerness. "I be your pardon," said she, "but I believe you did not suit yourself at Mrs. Aramis's?" "No," said Mrs. Blinn, "I didn't." "Perhaps," hazarded Miss Frederick, "I might be fortunate enough to " "Be you a dressmaker?" said Mrs. Blinn, turning the full focus of the spec tacles directly on the girl's face. "I make gowns yes." Mrs. Blinn paused, with her foot on the muddy wagon step. "And," added Miss Frederick, "I can undertake to make you a nice, plain black-silk dress for twrmty-cight dollars." "I'm willin' to pay that much," said Miss Bliun. "When can you measure me ?" "To-morrow," said Miss Frederick. "At No. , Sixth Avenue, at ten o'clock. I will see about the material at once." "I'll come, said Mrs. Blinn. "It's a sort o' bother racketin' in and out of the city, but there's to be a wedding in the family, and I want the dress to wear week after next." "It shall be ready," said Miss Fred- crick. She watched the creaking vehicle jolt down the street, and then went straight to the neat little room of a friend of hers, who had just opened an unpretentious milliner's shop at No. Sixth Avenue. "Jenny," said she, "I want to borrow your room for an hour to-morrow. I've got a customer, ana 1 can t tanenerto the dark hall bed-room where I hiber nate. And I want to paint a little sign, and tack it up above yours for this oc casion only '"Miss FiiEOETtrcK, Dressmaker.'" "You shall, and welcome," said kind Jenny Plympton. Mrs. Blinn came, and was duly tittea. Miss Frederick showed her a sample of the silk, which Mrs. Blinn looked at this way and that, raveled out, and rubbed between her thumb and finger in a know ing maimer. "It's (rood silk," said she. "Yes," said Miss Frederick, "it is good silk." "When can you have it ready?" "Bv Saturday night." "I'd sort o' like to try it on nfore I pay for it," hazarded the old lady. "I will brinir it out myself and try it on you," said Miss Frederick. Mrs. Blinn brightened up at once. "Will you?" said she. "I'll send tho farm-bov iu for you. then, with the wagon, and p'raps you'll stay over Sun day with me? You look sort o' pale. Mebbe it would do you good to breathe tho country air." "I should like it of all things!" said Miss Frederick, eagerly. She arrived on Saturday night, with the dress carefully pinned up in brown paper. She tried it on, and Mrs. Blinn, Naomi Blinn and Susanna Blinn all pronounced it "a perfect fit." "Such a rich silk !" said the old lad "A deal better quality than Mrs. Judge Jexon's!" "Such pretty jet dangles all over it!" said Miss busauua. "Such a stylish cut!" cried Naomi "Mu looks dreadful ladylike iu it! wonder if Miss Frederick would make me ouc?" "A black silk?" cried Susanna, in credulously. "No. to-be-sure!" said Naomi. "An alpaca, or a chaili, or something Eh what's the matter? Is she sick?" For, even as Miss Frederick was ad justing the sash drapery of the new gown, she sank fainting to tne lloor. I think it must have been because was so weak," she murmured, wheu at hist breath came and sense returned to her. "I have eaten nothing but bread and water for a week." Mrs. Blinn who, good soul, thought a deal of her breakfust, her diuner and uer suiuier. uttered a cry of dismay. I um a Ureaillul Hypocrite i saia juis3 Frederick, smiling faintly. "I may as well tell vou the whole truth. I'm not a dressmaker at ull only a shopgirl only used always to help with poor mauuna' dresses and my own when when we hud mouev. Mamma is dead now. This,' glancing at the silk gown, "wos uer uest black silk, that I never could make up my miud to pawn. She only wore it half dozen times, aud 1 sponged and turned it all carefully. It s not new, but but Oh, I am such a wicked fraud !" and she burst into tears. "Don't fret, dear 1" said kindly Mrs Blinu, folding her iu her capacious arms "The dress is beautiful. Didn't 1 say what a fine quality it was? aud a good deal nicer thau tho money would have bouirht for me anywhere else "Aud the tit," interposed Nuomi "it just like the fashion plates." "And," added Susanna, who had little money of her own, which a maidi aunt had left her, "I want you to make a new dress for me, if you will. Aui Suuire Eden's daughter wants her olive cashmere uiadu over, and and Oh we'll get lots of work for you to do, MlsJ Frederick, if only you will stay here." "Here in Evantown?". "Why not?" snid brave Naomi. "She can have the little room in the wing, ma, can't she? There's a nice south window, and plenty of room for a sewing machine." "And she can easily sew enough for us to pay hor board," suggested 8usanna, who had something of tho business clc ment about her. Miss Frederick brightened up. "You will forgive mo the deception?'' said she. "Deception! There ain't no decep tion about it," said Mrs. Blinn, com placently surveying herself iu tho new robe. "I wanted a good black silk, didn't I? And I've got it, haven't I and without payin' none o' them out rageous city prices, neither. Yes, my dear, you shall stay here with us. A Naomi says, there's room to spare, and But if you ain't a regular dress maker," she abruptly broke off, "how did you ever come by mat nice lumisneu ploce on Sixth Avenue, with the sign ana all?" Miss Frederick colored vividly. "That was fraud and cheating, too,'" she confessed. "I painted the sign my self, on a bit of board, with water colors that were a relic of old days, and I bor rowed the use of the room from a friend, purpose to deludo you. Ah, you never, never can forgive me !" "My dear," said the good farmers wife, "you are forgiven already. And now the girls will be so pleased, for my eldest son is to be married next week, and they wero kind o' puzzled about their dresses and things, and now you are here, if will be all right." Within a week the fraudulent sign shono above a neat little doorway in Evanstown, and "Miss Frederick, of New York, rose into eminence, with out ever having learned her trade 1 Mrs. Aramis and Miss Gill would hardly believe it," she said exultantly, to heiself. 'But I hope," said Mrs. Judge Jexon, one of tho new arrival s warmest ad herents, "she won't give up the business after she is married to Charley Blinn. Nobody fits me like her." "Married to Charley Blinn!" echoed another gossip. "There ain't no talk of that, is there?" Mrs. Jexton shrugged her shoulders. "No talk as I know of," sho said. 'But I think it is likely to happen. One wedding makes another, and now that John Henry is married, it's Charley's turn next. And she's a very pretty girl." O-o-oh! ' said the gossip. Saturday A'!!it. Lively Bear Hunt In Three States. One of the most exciting bear hunts of the year took place in the vicinity of Charleston, W. Va., recently. Early in the morning a big black bear, weighing about 300 pounds, was chased out of the mountains above Hedgeville, in Berkeley County, by some squirrel hunters. It crossed the Potomac to Williamsport, Maryland, where it created a great deal of excitement, and in an hour after its arrival on Maryland soil twenty-five men and twice that number or dogs were in pursuit. Bruin escaped the hunters and hounds, skirted around Hagerstown, and was seen that night near Greencastle, Penn., having traveled about twenty miles during the day. Most of the origi nal pursuers dropped off, but others took up the chase from time to time, so that there was always about the same number of excited men at the animal's heels. His trail was lost over tho Pennsylvania line, but the animal doubled back, and was again found near the North Mountain. Thero ho was surrounded, and being brought to bay in a field near Quincy, was shot to death by a volley from the hunters. The animal showed fight before being shot, and was an ugly customer to handle. Beds in Japan. A Japanese bed is the matting that covers the floor. At bed time several blankets or quilts are produced. One ia rolled out on the inatting-eovercu noor and forms the mattress. The pillow, as stated above, is either a small block of wood or a wooden structure, like a minia ture saw horse, intended to fit at the nape of the neck. Some uioro luxurious ones are rolls or little round cushions made of some soft niutcrial. When the Japanese or his visitor stretches himself out ou his blanket and lays ins neaa on this executioner's block for a pillow he draws over him one, two, or half a dozen blankets, according to his fancy aud tho temperature of the uir about him. In cold" weather, Japanese houses are any thing but comfortable, as no arrange ments are made for heating them. The Jap, however, proposes to be comforta ble iu his bed, aud he provides himsell w ith a bed wanner. This is a grated box or case, with a receptacle inside, in wmcu charcoal is burned. Ho puts this char coal stove under his blanket, near his tect, and wraps his limbs about it. The Jap anese will sleep this way all night. A Janaueso Writln Desk. The Jup's writing desk, like the lady's toilet set, seems to be made for very little people. The Jap docs not sit in a chair to write, but kneels before his cabinet and squats ou the floor. The cabinet contains a number of dainty little drawers, in which aro kept paper, ink, brushes aud pencils. Ou the top of the cabiuet is a tray for the ink. One little vessel contains water iu which tho stick of India ink used iu writing is moistened. The stick thus moistened is rubbed upon a pad from which it is takeu up ou a finely pointed brush with which the wiitiu;; is done. Some of the papci cinncs iu rolls, und as the Japanese write! his characters iu vertical rows, he unroll his paper and keeps unrolling until he has written all he wants to write, and, then, if it is a letter, lie tears the papei written upon from the roll, folds it up and sends it away. Some paper used bj Japanese woiueu is made iu fancy stylet with figures or flowers painted or priuted on it in colors. WdtlHiujlva btur, HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. mOTECTIOfl FROM MOTHS. For the effectual protection of woolen good against moths tho use of cedar wood boxes and closets is insufiicicnt,Rnd it is stated that there is no other means of protection against the ravages of the insect but perfectly to inclose the woolens in material which is not attacked by the moth, such as cotton cloth. AVoolen goods brushed clean from dust, folded to gether and put into cotton bags, which were well tied, have been found perfectly intact when taken out at the change ol the season. New York Telegram. LAST ITRB OF LEMOSS. you ever use lemons," remarked 'If one housewife to a lauy inenu, "anu have a portion of one left over, be sure you do not throw it away. "I am never without them in the house, as I always use them for flavoring ; but of what use are pieces?" "Just this. The next time you think you have done with a lemon, just dip it in salt and rub your copper kettle or stewpan with it. You will be surprised to find what a brilliant surface you will obtain if you rub the nrticle instantly with a dry, soft cloth. You can polish all brass work by the same means, every stain disappearing as if by magic. A moldy lemon put into a dirty saucepan half full of water and boiled for half an hour cleanses the utensil amazingly and removes any odor, such as fish or onions. Try it and see if I am not right." New York Herald. TIIE BENEFITS OF COFFES. It is asserted by the men of high pro fessional ability that when the system needs stimulant nothing equals a cup of fresh coffee. Those who desire to rescue the drunkard from his cups will find no better substitute for spirits than strong, new made coffee, without milk or sugar. Two ounces of coffee, or one-eighth of a pound, to one pint of boiling water makes a first class beverage, but the water muss be boiling, not merely hot. Bitterness comes from boiling it too long. If coffee required for breakfast be put in a grani'ized kettle over night and a pint of cold water poured over, it can be heated to just the boiling point, and then set back to pre vent further ebullition, when it will be found tlrnt, while the strength is ex tracted, its delicate aroma is preserved. As our country consumes nearly ten pounds of coffee per capita, it is a pity not to have it made iu the best manner. It is asserted by those who have tried it that malaria and epidemics are avoided by those who drink a cup of hot coffee before venturing into tho morning air. Burned on hot coals it isadisiufectunt for a sick room. By some of our best phy sicians it is considered a specific in typhoid fever. The Epicure. now to fuepahe roast deep. Take about eight pounds of porter house roast, have your butcher remove the bone and nearly all the fat around the tenderloin or fillet, and then tie it and fasten witli skewers into a circular shape. Lard it with the fatty part of bacon cut in thin strips. Place in your roasting pan with two onions cut in quarters, in serting a clove in each quarter; add I bay leaf. Sprinkle your meat well on all side? with salt and pepper, a little thyme, mid dredge well with flour; add from two to three cupfuls of stock, as it makes your gravy richer than using water alone. Place in a well heated oven and baste as often as possible to keep the meat iuicy; when well browned on top turn bottom side up and brown that also all around. I allow nbout two hours for this piece. It will be nicely browned and still rare at the heart. Vi hen i.ouo pl-.uc it cu a heated platter and turn into a warming oven. Now prepare the gravy. Remove all the fat from the contents of this pan. Mix in a cup a spoonful of flour, with cold water, until smooth. Add to your contents of pan. Place ou the stove. Add a little salt, and allow to boil uutil smooth and quite a little thick, stirring constantly. It can then be strained or not, as desired. Pour into gravy dish and serve with the meat. New York Prcst. recipes. Crumb Pudding One quart of sweet milk, one pint of bread crumbs, three quarters of a cup of sugar, yolks of four eggs, butter size of nu egg, flavor with lemon; bake in u slow" oven and when done spread over a layer of jelly, whip the whites of the eggs to a froth, and one cup of powdered sugar; pour over the jelly aud bake alight brown. Serve cold. Cream of Tomato Soui Cook one quart can of tomatoes for half an hour with a minced onion and some sprigs of parsley. Hub through a strainer fine enough to keep back the seeds. Set the saucepan over the tire with a tablcapoon fulof butter; stir iu heaping tablesuouful of sifted flour, and when smooth add slowly tho liquid of tomatoes aud a scant half teaspoouful of baking soda. .Measure the soda with a very light hand. Wheu the foaming stops, add u quart of boiling milk. Season to taste with salt and pep per, and pour ut once into the turecu. Serve thin wafer crackers with it. Almond Sponge Cake Take six eggs, their weight in granulated sugar, half their weight iu flour, one lemon, juice and grated rind, one cup of finely chopped al monds. Beat thu eggs separately. Add the sugar to the thoroughly whipped yelks. Grate the lemon rind uud straiu the lemon juice into this. Now put in half the flour and half the whites, which should be beaten to u stiff froth, then tho balance of flour, iuto which the cup of almonds should be stirred. To prepare the almonds take them from shells, put into a dish aud pour boiling water over theiu till they tan be slipped from thu skins. Let stand till cold and then cut them very fine with a sharp knife. Lastly add the remainder of whites of eggs and beat hard for a few minutes. Have ready two narrow long pans thoroughly greased with sweet lard and heated. Bake twenty-live minutes in u moderate oven. THE MOTHER OF ICEBERGS. GLACIER FORTY MILES LONC MOVES SIXTY FEET A DAY. It Is In Alaska and Presses Constant ly Toward the Sea, Into Which Huge Manses Drop from Its Front. The most notable of the glaciers in Southeastern Alaska, Rays Professor Hor ace W.Briggs, in the Sitka Alakan, is the Muir, named from Professor John Muir, a geologist of some reputation, since he gavo the first uncolored description of it. It is forty miles long, and back on tho laud, in a basin of the mountains. Being reinforced by fif'ecn tributaries coming down the glens from dillercnts points of the compass, it swells to an icy sea twenty-five miles in diameter. Thence it moves with resistless power.bearing rocks and long lines of detritus on its billowy surface. Just before it reaches the bay it is compressed by two sentinel mountains into and is forced through a gorge one mile in width. Emerging from this narrow gateway it moves on, at the rate of forty to Bixty feet a day,to the waters whence it origin ally came, buttressing the bay with i perpendicular wall 800 feet high, 300 feet of ultramarine crystals tipped with purest white being above the surface, aud, being pushed beyond its support in the underlying rock, a battle begins De tween cohesion and gravity. The latter force always prevails, and vast masses break from the glacial torrent with the combined crash of falling walls and heavy timber, a tumble into the bay with dash and a shock that agitates the waters miles away, making navigation perilous to craft of all sizes. The almost deaien inc roar made when these masses arc rent away, the splashing baptism they receive ia their fall and the leaping waters are lively witnesses to the birth of an ice benr. which henceforth, as an independ cut existence, goes on its mission of gird ing the shores, butting against its fellows uud of scaring navigators. While the ship was resting unmoored near the front of this icy barrier, we were startled by the sudden appearance of a moss of dark crystal, vastly larger than our own ship, shooting up from the depths and tossing our steamer as if it were an eggshell. As the vessel careened, the frightened passengers were scut whirl ing against her, over chairs, or prostrate upon "the deck. This strange visitor had doubtless been broken off from the roots of the icy mountain, hundreds of feet be low the surface, and hence had unex pectedly appear upon the scene. Had it struck the ship fairly nothing but a mira cle could have saved us. Having recovered somewhat from oui dumb amazement, nbout twenty of us were sent on shore in the captain's gig. Landing some distance below the ice wall, we climbed seventy feet up a lateral moraine, crawled, shoe-deep in wet gravel, down iuto the valley of a glacial river, forded it, paddled through glacial mud covered with shingle just deep enough to hide the creamy pools, slipped prostrate on the ice made treacherous by a thin disguise of detritus, and barked our shins aud cut our shoes on the sharp angular blocks of granite and basalt strewn for two miles, in great profusion, ulong our perilous route. After more than an hour of plunging and sprawling, and of pulling each other out of gray mire, about half of our num ber reached the uncovered glacier, and at the first glance we felt that here we should 6tand with uncovered heads, for we were in the presence of the marvelous mani festations of superhuman power inaction, and looked with unveiled eyes upon the potent agencies by which much of this planet has been fashioned. Away in tho distance was the white lake fed by numerous frozen rivers, and thoep rivrs were born of mountain snows . . . . .;? Tlia whUo.mlinfl mountains themselves iujiw in ti:u past, were smoothed and grooved far up their flinty sides when this same glacier was threefold deeper and many times more ponderous and mighty than it is to-day. The larger portion of this crystal river, perhaps an eighth of a milo in width, is heaved iuto rounded hills and beetling precipices, quite resembling tho sea in a storm; while the middle and much the wider part is splintered into countless spires and needles and pinnacles, ten, twenty, thirty feet iu height, and of a beautiful ultra-marine at the base shaded to a dead white at the summit. In the onward march of the glacici these pinnacles are occasionally wrenched from their scats in tho solid ice beneath they nod, then totter, und then make a plunge, aud are shattered into a cloud of iicicular crystuls that sparkle like the frosted snow under a full moon of a winter's uight, only with more of color they are diamonds on the wing. Again the whole surface is riven by u thousand crevasses, along the bottom of which streams of clear water find theii way, often broken by waterfalls that plunge further down into the dark blue abysses out of sight. These chasms arc frightful gaps to one peering down a hun dred feet between their turquoise walls. A slip, a frail alpenstock, a feeble grasp of the guide's rope, and gravity would close the sceue without further cere- iiiiuiy . The molecular structure of the glaeiei is continually changing, adjusting itscll to the elevations and depressions of its rocky bed, und hence there is an inces sant clicking and crackling, interrupted here aud there by uu explosion heard over every inch of the surface. The whole sceue is w eird, aud strange in sight and sound in the voices that rise to the air from the azure depths fascinating because every step is perilous, majestic from its uiassiveuess, ami awful because its march is irresistible. Consider what a force iu weuriug away mountains aud glens an icy torrent must be, one mile w ide, 800 feet deep aud in the middle flow ing sixty feet a day ; it goes grinding and groaning and cracking in startling explosions, ull mingled in u loud wuil like that from the Titans im prisoned under .Mount .fttnu. Vermont claims to produce more butter annually thuu any other State iu the Union. . . BOTH. Grandmother knit for the baby A jacket of bluo. "No color for boys," so she wrote it, A 'But this one will do." And she sent a gold pin wtth a blank tor the name, "To wait till "he" came. Next day came from lovely Aunt Molli Now what do you think? All seented, embroidered and dainty, A jacket of pink! "To dress a girl-baby in blue is a shamo!" She wrote: "What's hor name!" "Dear Grandma," wrote mamma one morn ing, "Your jacket in blue Is just the right thing for our baby, His eyes are so blue." And her note to Aunt Mollie was strange, you may think! "Our dear little girl Is so pretty in pink 1" I fear that you'U say her two letters At variance seemed, Or that I am telling you something I could but have dreamed; But the fact is, her stories were nothing but time; For the twins wore both jackets the pink and the bluet Agnr.t L. Mitchell, in Babyhood. HUMOR OF THE DAT. A love-letter W. An early settler A man who pays his bills promptly. They say a sheep-dog's favorite vege table is a collie flower. A dog will bark up a tree. So will a horse, if hitched to one too long. Sitiiifs. If "brevity is the soul of wit," drawfs should be the funniest of men. Pittibury Chronicle. "Yes, Julius, the health lift is a good thing, but don't look for it in the vicinity of a mule's heels." Burlington FreePrett. It is said that every man has his double. It generally occur? in youth, during the green-apple season. 1'rotidenee Journal. Many people travel for health ; but you cannot travel in England without losing seventy-five or a hundred pounds. Biiznr. McCorkle "Smythe says he owes you a grudge." McCrackle "Never miud; Smythe never pays anything." Harper' Bazar. The young King of Spain's nurses probably huve little trouble in keeping liim clean since he is himself the Castile's hope. llotil Mail. The mean is not tho extreme, but if there is anything meaner than a hornet's extreme it has not come this way. Bing hamton llcpuhlican. Stella "Oh, Bella, how glad I am! I haven't seen you for ages!" Bella "Hush! You will give us both away." Burlington Free J'resi. "How came Governor Buck to marry a woman inferior to him in social position?" "Oh, you.forgot she began life as a gov erness." Boston, Gazette. Cora "What induced you to tell Mr. Merritt I went to the party last night with George?" Little Johnnie "A quarter." JIarper't Bazar. First Broker "Jay Gould's stocks are feverish this morning." Second Broker "Feverish! Is it possible that he for got to water them?" Tela Sitings. An Ohio church deacon exclaimed: "Consarn it alltoTexas!"nnd the verdict of the church investigation was: "Not guilty, but in bad taste." Detroit Free iV. Husband "A word to the wiso is suf ficient, my dear." Wife "I know it, darling. That's why I havo to be con tinually and everlastingly talking to you." Wathingtun Critic. Mistress "Now, Jane, clear away the bicak ia '. ( -lies and then look after the children. I'm going around tho corner to have a dress fitted." Faithful Ser vant "Yes, mum. Will ye take tho night key, or shall I set up for ye?" Time. A miller fell fast asleep iu his mill, and bent forward until his chair was caught iu some machinery, and almost a handful of hair was pulled out. Of course he was awakened. His first bewildered exclama tion was: "Hang it! wife, what's tho matter now?" fid Bit). Omaha Chief "And wheu t!iu shoot ing began you ran away from the melee?" Proud 'Policeman "Yes." O. C. "Did you not know vou would be called a cow ard all you life?" P. P. "I made a hasty calculation to that effect, but I thought I would rather be a coward ull my life than u corpse for fifteen minutes." Omaha 'orld. Some strolling actors were ouco play ing "Macbeth" in a country town. Their properties were not kept in very system atic order, for, when tho hero of Shakes peare's drama exclaimed: "Is this a dag ger which 1 c before me?" a shrill voice responded from the "flies:" "No, sir; it's the putty-knife; the dagger's lost!" llmiitlwhi Word. Curing the Falsetto Voice of Yen. A St. Louis gentleman tells the follow ing story: "I consulted, the other day, a well-known St. Louis specialist ill throat and luug diseases, a man who is famous in the country for his original investiga tion. Chatting w ith him after my busi ness was disposed of, he casually men tioned a discovery he hud made a year be fore, by which ho was able to cure the falsetto voice of men. "1 thought it was iucurable," said 1. "Oh, no," he said. "The cure is a mere matter of training a certain idle throat luusi le to do its proper work. Vou know Mr. Blank and Mr. Dash and young li. 1 showed them in teu minutes how to cure the falsetto voice, and after a w eek's exercise they ull came back to me talking iu full, uiunly bari tone and bass voices." "But it is not generally known that you have dis covered this," I said. "Why don't you write something uboitt itl" "Well," said he, "I can't afford to antagonize tha profession, us I should do if I advertised that 1 could do something other phy sicians could not do."