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VOL. XXII. NO. 48. TIONESTA, TA., WEDNESDAY, MAKCH 20, 1890. S1.50 TER ANNUM.
! Tho growth of cities In tho United
States is not among tho least of tho mar j
vels of its development. There aro now
350 of them, with nn nggrcgute popula
tion of nearly 16,000,000.
' During tho year 1RSD thcro wcro enr
rietl over tho elevated railroads of New
York city 182,413,087 passengers, not
ono of whom was injured by carelessness
or other fault of the muni.gemont. This
is certainly n wonderful showing and af
fords a marked contrast to tho accidents
associated with surface travel.
During recent German manoeuvre it
was found that with bodies of troops
400 yards aimrt, ono body in tho woods,
tho sound of their firing could bo heard,
but thoro was not smoke enough to lo
cate them accurately for a return fire to
bo effective. It is suggested tint the
balloon will become necessary for rceon
noisanee in such cases when smokeless
powder comes to bo generally used.
Humor has it that there is soon to be a
"worls striko" of seafaring men, to af
fect tho merchant marine service or ull
countries, but especially that of America,
England, Australia and tho China Seas.
It is said that tho members of tho Sailors'
and Fireman's Union, numbering more
than a quarter of a million mcu in tho
trade between the ubovc-mentioned sec
tions, havo managed "to collect nearly a
million cf dollars with which to support
tho strike.
Tho Quebec Legislature has passed a
bill offering 100 acres of land to every
mau who is tho father of twclvcchildrca.
The persons entitled to this novel bonus
appear to be numerous. AtTreis l'istoles
there arc two families, named Koulctte
and Bclzil, who each have fifteen living
children. Another named Giugras, iu
Hellechassc.has had no fewer than thirty
four children born to him. Still another
named Crctien, in L'Islct, has twenty
seven, and one Villancourt, in Kamour
iskn, has just had his thirty-seventh
itlfaut baptized.
The youug Emperor of Germany has
ordered tho suppression of all words of
French origin in tho addresses of letters.
At tlin .mm 41... ,.f ..II
" "uniu nntw uiu -.UI VI Mil lUU
Uussias issues from his bomb-proof an
ukase to tho effect that all letters for
foreign lands shall bo addressed ex
clusively iu French. Tho New York
Cymmrrcinl Advertiser suggest to their
mightinesses a compromise : "Let their
ubjects learn and use good American.
They will havo to come to it at last. It
is tho language of tho future, and tho
sooner that is acknowledged the bcttei."
There has been an cxanfple in Man
chester, England, recently of the folly of
parents exposing their children to disease
with tho idea that they must havo it nt
sue timo or another, and that as they
must have it the trouble may as well bo
over with. Some Manchester mothers
had this notion' iu regard to measles,
with tho result that iu two weeks forty
four children died. Tho mothers de
liberately placed their children in tho
way of taking the disease. Tho largo
mortality was probably due to tho fact
that la grippe was prevalent at tho time.
The Chicago Herald declares it to bo tho
very acme of unwisdom to expose a child
to any disease.
Thanks to tho missionaries, inner
Africa is now able to do a good deal of
her own printing, as tho Portuguese
found out iu October last. They re
ceived, tho New York Sun asserts, a
printed declaration from Consul John
ston announcing that a large part of the
Shire River region had been placed under
tho protection of Great Britain. The
typesetting and press work had been
done by black boys at Blantyre, tho now
famous mission station in the beautiful
Shire Highlands, where tho wilderness
has been inado to blossom, hundreds of
acres having been turned into planta
tions and grain fields, while scores of
children are studying in the school and
learning trades iu the workshops. It has
cost $200,000 thus far to bring about
this transformation.
Oiie thing which harasses Americans
in England perhaps more than anything
else, observes tho New York World, is
that they have so frequently to pay for
something which should be supplied free
and supplied freely. The performance
at the theatres is a familiar illustration.
The latest story of returning travelers,
however, has to do with tho lights iu
the underground railroad cars. The
passenger - can turn one on nnd read his
fuier if he puts a penny in the slot. If
f, grudges tho penny lie cannot have tho
luminatiou. The light is arranged iu a
weep box just back of tho passenger's
head. It is au electric light and will
only illuminate the paper or book im
mediately in front of it and will only
illuminate it for fifteen minutes. At tho
end of that time, if a second penny does
not come iu, ti-e light goes out. In this
way the radiance remains fixed, ulthough
oljviously tlie pauseujjer's pockets glow
lighter all the time,
HOW THE SUN WENT DOWN.
We were together, my love and I,
We roamed the meadows and lifo was
sweet;
Never a cloud In the summer sky,
And flowors a-blowing about our.feet.
Our hearts were glad for that one glad day,
So bright it seemed of all joy the crown;
But the beautiful brightness passed away,
Oh, how quickly the sun went down.
Golden light upon land and sea!
Golden light for my love and met
Never can dawn a day so bright,
Linger a little with us to-night!
We have boon parted, my love and I,
Many a year by timo and tide.
Not till wo reach the home on high
Shall I stand again at my lost one's side.
The flowors are failed, the world is cold,
The trees are naked, and gaunt, and brown,
And youth has fled and my heart Is old,
Oh, how slowly the sun goes down!
Evening shadows of dreamy gray,
Praw your veil o'er my weary way t
Till day shall break and the shadows flee
And morning bringeth my love to me.
Florence Tyler, in Once-a-Wtck.
DOLLY'S CONFESSION.
BY 1IK1.KN FOKRKST GRAVES.
The clear February sunshine lay like a
river of gold across the dark, rich lines
of the Axminster carpet as Dolly Damar
drew the decorated window shade.
"It seems a pity to shut out God's sun
shine," murmured she, "but Mrs. Lcd
yard is always cautioning me about let
ting that carpet fade."
And she took a farewell glance out
over the snow enameled avenue, where
gaily caparisoned sleighs skimmed to and
fro and parties of promcnadcrs occupied
the pavements before she returned to her
hum-drum task of dusting tho drawing
room.
For Dolly Damar was '.'only the up
stairs girl" in Mrs. Lcdyard's pretentious
establishment. She was a farmer's daugh
ter, who had received an education above
the average ; and when old Hiram Da
mar's death had broken up the house
hold, she had come to New York, hoping
to get a situation as nursery governess or
companion.
Disappointed in one after another of
her aspirations, she was at last glad to se
cure a place as parlor maid at Mrs. Led
yard's, where she was to-day, singing as
sho dusted bric-a-brac and polished plato
glass for Dolly was a cheerful little
maid, and had an in Vetera to habit of
making the best of things.
Crash 1 Dolly gave a start and turned
around.
Little Gladys, the youngest child of the
Ledyard flock, ii tampering with a china
shcphcidcss, had knocked it over. It
lay in a score of glittering fragments on
the floor.
"Oh, Miss Gladys!" cried the upstairs
girl. "What have you done?"
"Dolly, don't give me away," stam
mered the slangy daughter of tho house.
"Tell ma it was the cat."
"But Miss Gladys, that would bo a
lie."
"No, it wouldn't. It would bo noth
ing on earth but a tiny little whito fib.
And ma will be so mad! Oh, Dolly, do i
let her think it was pussy!"
"I couldn't, Miss Gladys. Please don't
ask mc!" pleaded poor Dolly. "I must
speak the truth if sho asks me."
Miss Gladys Ledyard swung, mutter
ing out of tho room.
"I'll bo even with her yet!" said she;
"the mean, hateful tattle-tale!"
And wheu Mrs. Ledyard caino home
from her sleigh-ride in the park, Gladys
was beforehand with tho "mean, hate
ful tattle-tale." Mrs. Ledyard sent for
Dolly, taxed her with the misdemeanor
of breaking it Dresden shepherdess worth
twenty dollars, and then eudeavoriug to
conceal her mishap, while Gladys stood
grinning by, and then discharged her,
first warning her that it would be useless
to expect a reference from that number
on Fifth avenue.
So poor Dolly went back to the intel
ligence otlice and sat there day after
day, until all her slender stock of pa
tience, and still more sleuder supply of
money, were exhausted. No ono would
engage a girl without any reference from
her lust place. Day by day her heart
sank lower and the future became darker,
until her landlady's daughter, a stylish,
black-eyed girl, who was lady's maid in
a handsome hnuso ou Mallulieu Square,
heard of her dilemma.
"No recommend, eh?" said sho. "I
can set all that square ! I'll give you
one?"
"You?"
"Yes, I. Why not? It's often done.
I know two or three girls who have
helped each other out of a tight place I
like that. My family is going iu the
country for tho Easter holidays. Send
your peoplo to C Mallalieu Square, Mrs.
Nyton's, and I'll bo Mrs. Nvton, and !
give you an A No. 1 character!" I
"Hut, Ellen, that would be untrue!"
"What would be untrue 1 That youi
are honest, willing, capable r
"No, but you are not Mrs. Nyton!"
"I shan't say that I am. I merely say
what I know to be the truth about you ;
aud if you succeed in getting a good
place, all that I ask is a dollar or two
out of your first month's wages. It'll bo
a sort of masquerade !"
And Ellen showed her broad white
teeth in a laugh.
"It's a pity if we poor girls can't out
wit the fino ladies now and then. Auy
time after Monday, Mrs. Nyton will be at
home."
Dolly hesitated long, argued the poiut
feebly, but finally gave in, and little Mrs.
Edgecumbe, of Lilliesleaf Farm, was
more thau delighted with tho "refer
ence" she obtained for her new maid iu
the Mallalieu Square muusiou.
"Smb. an elegant house!" said she,
"and a tea-gown of olive plush, such as
I never saw out of a fushiou-plate. But
I was surprised to hear Mrs. Nyton speak
such dreadfully bad grammar!"
"Probably," said Mr. Edgecumbe,
"she is endowed with more money than
brains.
"Most likely," said th) little house- !
wife.
Dolly Damar was quito happy at
Lilliesleaf. It was, strictly speaking, a
bec-farm., but they kept cows and
poultry as well, and Dolly was delighted
to get back to the pleasant cares thnt had
been so familiar to her in the old life.
John Gardiner, Mrs. Edgccumbc's
brother, the village pastor, boarded
there, and they soon discovered thnt
Dolly was no ordinary uneducated
"kitchen help."
Tho throe children were blue-eyed,
sunny-lcmpcred little cherubs, the wages
were generous, and Dolly found her
self nt last iu possession of a home.
After tho housework was done of nn
evening, she could help Mrs. Edge-
crumbe with tho family mending, copy
music for Mr. Gardiner's choir practice,
or write to tho dictation of Mr. Edge
cumbe, who was painfully preparing a
"Text Book on Ilee Culture," and day
by day she grew, shcscarcely knew how,
brighter and happier.
She had cxpericnued a pang of remorse
when she sent Ellen vGibbs a two-dollar
bill in a letter, out of the first instalment
of her wages, but that was soon over;
until, one Sunday afternoon, sitting iu
charge of her class in the little church,
she heard John Gnrdiucr's talk to his
Sunday-school about the. divine attributes
of truth.
Like a keen-edged I poniard, it stung
her to tho heart.
"And I," said she to herself, "am a
liarl What business have in this happy
home this pure, peaceful atmosphere?
Oh, I wish how I wish I never had
listened to Ellen Gibbsl And yet, if I
hadn't, I must have starved or drowned
myself. Oh, dear, how hard it is to
know what. is right?"
She went) home and packed her poor
little trunk.
"My second month is up to-morrow,
Mrs. Edgecumbe," said she, iu a falter
ing voice, "and I am returning to New
York."
"To New York? Oh, Dolly!" cried
the little woman, throwing up her hands
iu despair. "What is the matter?"
"Nothing," said Dollv, valiantly swal
lowing her tears; "only I must go."
"Has auy. one olleutled you:
"Oh, uono!"
"If you want higher wages "
"No, Mrs. Edgecombe; you pay mc
all I earn now," protested, Dolly.
" 1 lieu w nat is it, Dolly ! Dear, Dollv.
do stay. You are like one of ourselves,"
pleaded Mrs., Edgecumbe.
But Dolly I only answered with, her
tcais.
"I can't think what ;has chanced her
so, ull of a sudden, "(said Mrs. Edge
cumbe. "The children have coaxed her
dear littlo things! and, Mrs. Edge-
cumbo has offered her a fbctter rate of
compensation, but it is of no use. Per
haps, John, if you wcro to speak to
her"
Mr. Gardincrsat silently'baJancing his
pen, regiirdless of the big roiuwl blot that
had fulleu on the "Thirdly" of his next
Sunday's .sermon. It was a strange re
velation to him, the chill feeling that
came across his heart at the idea of,Dolly
Dumar's goung away.
"Yes," said he, "I will speak,' to her.
Somehow, it. seems as if wo couldn't
spare her."
But even to his kind reusouingsi Dolly
only replied by tearful silence.
"I must go," said she "I must! And
you, if you knew all, would say the same
.thing."
"I doa't kuow what I slmll do, I'm
sure," said Mrs. Edgecumbe, lapsing into
deep despuir. "I never shall have cour
age to faco an intelligence otlice again.
C'assio Morton has just been here, telling
me the strongest stories ubrnit those
places. It soenis, she knows ot a womau
whose whole business it is to actus 'refer
ence' to girls- who can't get airy, or don't
deserve tlu'tu. She has hired a gaudily
furnished flat, and sits up there all day,,
ucting tho part of the last lady wiUi
whom tho girls lived, atsomitch a he:ul.
Just fancy what a deception! The po
lice havo broken uji this place, at tho
complaint of some lady who found' her
self tho victim oCu dishonest maid whose
recommendation was obtained iu . this
manner, but who knows how many'oth
ers there may be?"
Dolly sprang to her feet, vcry.pale
but firm.
"Mrs. Edgccinnbe," said she, "that
is what I did! That is tho oxason I
am going away from you. 1 ciut't live
on here and bear- tho burden oft my gilt
any longer!"
Aud she confessed it all, .beginning at
tho story of the Dresden shepherdess,
and cudingwith Ellen Gibbs's fitting up
in the vacant boudoir of tho lady who
hud gone to spend tho Easter' holidays
at Tuxedo Park.
"Now yon know all," said she.
"Please let me go at once, for of course
you won't be willing to havetue sit down
to the table with the dear little childreu
again."
And her words died away in a great
buret of tears.
"Not willing indeed!" cried Mis.
Edgecumbe. "Of course I wou't be
willing to let you stir a step from Lib
licsleaf farm. Is that all. that troubles,
you, Dolly!"
"Isn't that enough j" wailed poor,
Dolly.
"Quite enough to tmtisfy'iue that you
must stay," said Mrs. Edgecumbe.
"Why, Dolly, child, you're like my
owu sister now. Do you think I will
let you go back into such temptation
u:aiu? Never! Talk to her, John.
Make her understand that we like her
better thau ever for having told us the
truth dear, brave girl!"
And Mrs. Edgecumbe ran out of the
room to tell her husbaud that ull was
right.
Dolly looked- ti uidly at Mr. Gar
diner. "Well;" said he, kindly.
"It is for you to decide," whispered
she. "I will do exactly what you
say."
"You'll promise me that, Dolly?"
"Yes," she avowed, artlessly.
"Dear l ttlu Dolly!" said he. "You
have done very wrong, but yoil have
atoned for ull that by your free and frank
confession. My verdict is that yon re
oiaiu here."
"Oh, Mr. Gardiner, lam soglad!" '
"Stop," said he. "I am not quite
through."
"Ohl" sighed Dolly, blankly.
"There is something else I want you to
do."
"By way of penance?"
Dolly's blue eyes sparkled; her old
playful spirit was coming back again.
"If you choose to call it penance, yes.
I have discovered something within the
last Lour, Dolly. I hove discovered thnt
if you went away a great portion of the
light nnd sunshine of my lifo would go
also; that I love you, Dolly, and this
thing that I ask of you is to bo my
wife!"
Dolly hid her burning face among the
leaves of tho big geranium in the win
dow. "I think I must be dreaming,"
said she. ' 'Because how can I have de
strved such happiness as this?"
"If we nil got only what wc descrvo
in this world," said Mr. Gardiner, "we
should some of us fare pretty hard ! That
is the clerical side of me. Anil now,
Dolly my owu darling littlo Dolly,"
taking her tenderly to his heart "here
is the human side of me I No happiness
in all the universe can be too much for
you, sweet one! And I love you all the
better, in that you are no more absolute
ly perfect than myself."
And this "situation" ns minister's wife
at Lilliesleaf was the last that Dolly
Damar ever took, and if any one else
wants a "reference" for her they must
ask tho Kevercnd John Gardiner!
Saturday Xi'jlit.
Farmhouses In Holland.
The houses in Holland, a correspond
ent says, are mostly of brick, square in
shape, one story high with peaked red
tiled roof. Tho thatched roof which is
so usual in Belgium is hero seldom seen.
The houses ure usually neut looking, both
outside and in.
On opening the door you are shown
into a large room with kitchen utensils
in the glory of highly-burnished splendor
hanging about a stove or cooking range,
with hero a table, a settee and a few
chairs, with a strip of carpet laid ou a
brick floor.
Hanging down this long room is a row
of cow stalls on an elevated brick-paved
platform, with a trench buck of tho
stalls ubout two leet wide and two feet
deep. This room accommodates from
twenty to iifty cows on a well-to-do
farmer's place, nnd wos a curious sight to
us. These stables nnd kitchen combined
are scrubbed clean and whitewashed and
are as clean as any ward in some of our
best hospitals.
In tho spring, when the cattle are
turned out to grass, the stalls are scrubbed
nnd scoured, the brick pavements painted
and tho walls and ceilings whitewashed.
Lace curtains arc arranged lit the win
dows; often flower-pots or little jardiniers
are kept there duriug the summer, and
the room smells us sweet and is as clean
as the milk house of the most fastidious
farmer's wife.
After the cowg are housed in tho fall,
they remain in until spring. You see no
cow yards. The cattle are either in past
ure or in their stalls. When turned out,
they aro blanketed with sail cloth curi
ously held in place by robes running un
der and around the legs.
Thh large room meutioncd above is
occupied jointly by the cows and the
servants. Opening from it you enter a
dining nnd a sitting-room, generally car
peted, and, unlike the stable and kitchen,
has wooden floors. From this you enter
the bedrooms. Tho beds uro generally
in nn elevated alcove, with doors in front,
cutting it off from tho room. The bed
is generally a bunk. In this province
bedsteads are seldom used.
I was shown into a bedroom furnished
with a washstand, a tablo and some
chairs, but there seemed to be no bed.
Investigation of what appeared to be cup
board doors in the wall, only about the
size of ordinary sideboard doors, showed
the bed in this cupboard, or closet, so
high from the groujid that steps kept in
side for the purpose had to bo used to
g-'t in.
A New Industry for Children.
A novel industry for children's tiny lit
tle lingers has somewhat recently been in
troduced into Eugland, and is quite as
fascinating to the little workers as it is
remunerative. A company has been
formed for the manufacture of toys,
which were formerly imported into the
couutry at tho almost incredibly large
sum of $2,000,000. When it was learned
that most of tho work cf manufacturing
the toys was accomplished by little chil
dren, who enjoyed their employment so
much that they preferred jt to play, this
company established their manufactory in
the midst of a crowded district of Bir
mingham, and advertised to teach chil
dren the work free of cost. As soon as
the people learned of this offer, women
and children besiged the place in such
numbers that the street was literally
packed with applicants, and the police
had great difficulty to force their way
through the throng. The children after
learning how to do the work are allowed
to take it to their homes, and, sur
rounded by new comforts and luxuries
purchased by tho proceeds of their fasci
nating employment, amid the retiniug in
fluences of home, hundreds of busy littlo
hands are employed in delightful work.
To call out the most intelligent workers
iu the trade the company issued a list of
prizes to be competed for by the children
under twelve years of age aud awarded to
the child who shall construct the .best
outfit for the company's paper doll. The
largest prize is 5, the smallest and
other prize lists are to follow presently.
.AJ'o Yurk S'tit.
He F.uts Lump Chimneys.
A muu w ilked into a quecuswarc
house iu Asheville recently, unci pur
chased a lamp chimney. He took from
his pot ke; a handful of crackers, culled
for a cup of water, and before the eyes of
the astonished clerks proceeded to make
a uual of the glus. It was apparently
relishvd, und after finishing his strange
repast, he thanked the attendants for
their kindness aud withdrew. Anitcillt
N. (J.) (,'itucu.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
f MAKING BTOCK.
There is a great deal of unreliable in
formation going the rounds of many
papers, professing to' tell how to run a
stock-pot. Such as, for instance, that a
vessel can bo kept on tho bnck or the
stove, and bones, scraps of meat nnd
vegetables put into it after each meal,
nnd kept constantly simmering, and thnt
from this mess good soups can be ob
tained. If there is a family of any size,
thcro should be enough of the bones and
remains of poultry and meat and game
to make a soup at least four times a week
without buying fresh meat for the pur
pose. The most satisfactory way to do
this, however, is to keep a dish in your
larder or ice-box, to receive such bits
and the cold gravies for a day or two, and
then make as much broth from them ns
their quantity will allow. In a boarding
house, or a very large family, it may be
possible to keep a stock-pot constantly
simmering, but tho broth should be
strained oil and the bones and vegetables
thrown out every twenty-four hours.
Vegetables should not be put into it un
til un hour before tho soup is to be re
moved. If soup is to bo boiled three
hours, use ono quart of cold water to
every pound of bone nnd meat, in tho
proportion of one of the former to three
of the latter. If it is to boil six hours
(and where time is no object this should
always be allowed), add two quarts to
every pound of meat; this will reduce to
one quart by boiling. The boiling must
bo slow and steady, and tho skimming
must bo thorough. Inattention to these
details clouds the stock nnd makes it
dark. About ono hour before the stock
is done, add the usual bunch of soup
herbs, one carrot, one turnip and one
onion stuck with three cloves. This is
the proportion for four quarts of plain
stock. Simmer nn hour longer, strain
into an earthen jar, and leave it stand to
cool, uncovered. If there is time to let
it get perfectly cold, the fat may be re
moved in a solid cake; if not it may bo
skimmed oil, and in either case it is ex
cellent for frying. Many housewives do
Dot And it necessary to use a bit of lard,
preferring beef suet tried out aud mixed
with clarified fat from tho top of soups.
American Agriculturist.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
To freshen salt fish soak them in sour
milk.
The best of tea makes but nn indiffer
ent concoction unless tho wuter is fresh.
Anything mixed with wuter requires a
hotter oven thau anything mixed with
milk.
Beets should be boiled one hour iu
summer; one hour aud a half, or even
two hours, if large, in winter.
Apples will not freeze if covered with
a linen cloth, nor a pie or custard burn
if in tho oven with a dish of water.
When several cups of tea of equal
strength are wanted, pour a little iuto
such cup aud then fill in adverse order.
The tea first poured from the pot is tho
weakest of the decoction.
All vegetables should go iuto fast boil
ing water, to be quickly brought to tho
boiling poiut ugain, not left to steep in
the hot water before boiling, which
toughens theia and destroys color aud
flavor.
Paper may bo perfumed by laying a
perfumed sachet with tho sheets and en
velopes, or dry sachet powder may be
spriukled in the box, luying an extra
sheet of paper between tho box and
paper.
There is nothing that removes impuri
ties from floors, etc., so rapidly as boiling
hot soda and water, applied with a long
ladled scrubbing brush and rinsed oil
ouce with clear water and dried with a
clean cloth.
When the skin is bruised it may be
prevented from becoming discolored by
using a little dry starch or arrowroot
merely moistened with cold water and
placed on tho injured part. This should
be done at once.
If black dresses have been stained boil
a handful of fig leaves in a quart of water
and reduce it to a pint. A sponge
dipped iu this liquid and rubbed upon
them will eutirely remove staius from
crapes, bombazines, etc.
The practice of rubbing the face with
vaseline or other cosmetic sometimes
makes the hair grow where it is not be
coming. Camphor applications, liko
other irritants or stimulants to the skiu,
will cause superfluous hair.
No matter how large tho spot of oil,
any carpet or woolen stud cau be cleaned
by applying buckwheat plentifully and
carefully brushiug it into a dust pan af
ter a short timo and putting it ou fresh
until tho oil has all disappeared.
Hub chalk ull along the edge of the
door that "sticks," then close it us near
ly as you cau. The chalk will only come
oil ou that portion of the door opposite
tho part that needs planing to ease the
door. So you need not waste your wood
aud time iu plauiug awayuny other part.
It is a little difficult to determine ju-t
wheu custard is sullicieutly cooked. This
will settle tho poiut: Take a spoouful of
the mixture aud let it run back into the
dish. If it leaves the spoon entirely moro
cooking is necessary. Should there be
little specks upon the spoon it is quite
time to remove the "soft" custard from
the stove.
A good cough mixture is made by tak
ing two ounces of balm of gilead buds
and boiling them very slowly in a quart
of boiling water. Let it simmer to one
pint, then stiai.i it and add one pound of
honey in comb, with tho juice of three
lemous. Let all boil together until the
wax in the honey is dissolved.
A German test for watered milk con
sists iu dipping a well-polished knitting
needle into a deep vessel of milk aud
then immediately withdrawing it iu au
upright manner. If the milk is pure a
drop of the fluid will hang to the needle,
but the addition of even a small propor
tion ot water will prevent the adhesion
of the drop.
Mrs. Dios likes, of Columbus, Ohio,
is foujlu-u yea-s old and widow.
MANUFACTURE OF CORKS.
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT A LIT
TLE KNOWN INDUSTRY, i.
Cork is tho nark ofa Species of Oak
How It is lioiloil, Softened and
Punched.
There is a veil of mystery hanging over
a cork manufactory which is ditiicult to
pierce. Of the twenty factories in this
country none will receive visitors. Their
employes labor behind barred portals and
only dilfer from State charges in not wear
ing barred clothes. Of these twenty fac
tories four aro in this city, four in Bos
ton, three in Lancaster, Penn., three in
Canada, one in Baltimore, ono in Pitts
burg, one in Norwich, Conn., and the
rest in unfrequented places. Six import
ers feed these concerns with stock.
A cork factory is an odd place. Scarce
ly a sound comes from tho buildings
where the industry is carried on. Noise
less machinery whirls with great rapidity
the only sound heard is that of escaping
steam. Cork is soft and elastic, as every
body knows, and is the bark of a species
of oak which grows abundantly in Portu
gal, Italy and Spain, principally in Spain.
Tho trees grow to a prodigious size
and live to the ripe old age of 15(J years.
At fifteen they begin to bear nnd continue
to furnish new crops of bnik every
five years. The harvesting occurs iu the
early spring. At that season of the year
a largo number of laborers are turned
loose in the wilderness and the barking
begins. Incisions are made around the
trees and the bark is stripped off. It is
then boiled to take out tho sap, after
which it passes through the pressing pro
cess. When dry it is cut, scraped,
trimmed and put up in bales like cotton
for shipment. The bark vnries in thick
ness from half an inch to five inches, and
tho price fluctuates from three to thirty
cents a pound.
At the factories it is placed in a square
box aud steamed to soften it, so that it
can be easily worked. Then it goes to
the saw and is cut into long strips. These
saws are different from ordinary saws, in
asmuch as they have no teeth. They nre
provided with a razor-like edge instead.
They make 2000 revolutions a minute,
and if one should be so unfortunate as to
feed his finger instead of cork, atupuU
tion would be just as complete and clean.
From the sawer the strips go the punch
ing machine. This is a simple piece of
mechanism, furnished with punches of
all sixes, from three-eighths of an inch to
five inches iu diameter. It is operated
with a lever aud docs its work as fast as
a man can handle it. The stripes are
punched with the grain and it requires
no littlo judgment to guard against im
perfections in the bark. It is here that
the greatest waste in the material is ex
perienced. From a strip of burk a trifle
over a foot long only a dozen corks cud
be made, and half of the material is lost.
But tho waste docs not end here. It goei
tagging the cork all over tho factory.
Even those that arc so successful ns to be
moulded into a useful form havo to be
sorted and a goodly number are rejected.
So that waste is one of tho characteristic
features of the manufacture of cork.
Within the last few years, however, uses
have been found for these scraps which
have considerably lessened the manufac
turer's loss.
Alter being punched iuto circular form
tho corks go to the tapering machine,
where their final preparation comes.
This is by far the most interesting part
of this interesting industry. Not so
very many years ago tho ouly tapering
machine known was an ordinary man and
his knife. Now hand-made corks are
unknown. This finishing machine it
nothing move or less than a lathe, the
knife of which moves after the manner of
an old-fashioned apple-peeler. The corks
are put iuto an iron hand, which conveys
them to a imaginary mouth, when up
comes tho knife und the shavings fly.
Tho finished cork then drops out of place
to make room for another. When run
ning tho machine resembles a hungry
nun. Its capacity is about 100 gross per
day.
But bottle stoppers are not the only
things which nre made of cork. Many
specialties, such as cork washers of vari
ous sizes, caps for pocket flasks and-kero-sene
oil cans and sliced corks are manu
factured also. Sliced cork is used foi
insoles. It is also used in silk machinery
where friction occurs. The cork washer
uro fast taking tho place of rubber ones
nnd nre now considered tho only thing
with which to pack valves, as the trouble
some oil, which cats up rubber, has no
effect ou cork.
Before uses were discovered for thu
waste some huudreds of tons were burned
up every month, and thousands of dol
lars were lost in this way. Things are
different now, however. All the waste
is shipped to this city and made into life
preservers, cork jackets, cork sprinkled
paper, in which glass is packed, and lin
oleum. This pulverized stuff is also ex
tensively used to pac k Malaga grapes in,
being handy, safe und light. Bed mat
tresses und yacht cushions ure also made
of tho shavings, and ure superior to
those maila of other materials. In fact,
they arc so superior und come so high
that but few can afford the luxury. Every
wcll-furiiislied yacht, however, is thor
oughly equipped with them. A'cio l'vrt
Trintne.
The Bookcases Were Too Large.
A story is told of a gentleman who is
now and has beeu for some years past en
gaged in rearing an elegant mansion of
stone a dozen miles or so out of liostou.
Much care has been takeu and no ex
pense spared in its erection. The other
day he went out to see how the work
was progressing nud'.visited the library.
It is a uoble room,) aud it has been sur
rounded by elegant .'bookcases of carved
oak iu claborateljdesign. The owner
gave one glance al iut the spacious and
beautiful upartmcnlkand then exclaimed
to the contractor : I "What made you
build the bookeaeslso high? Cut them
down two feet am'put cupboards undi r-tii-ath!
Do you tliink I am going to buy
Ih.oks foralljthoset-helvesi" Jintvii Ad
ttrtixr. r V .j
WHEN THE TRAIN COMrS IN. .
There are eagor faoe near,
And a half-sulidued cheer.
As around tho curve the enrs unsteady spixj
While impatient feet await
For the opening nf tho gate.
At the station when the train comes in.
There is handshaking and kissing,
And inquiries for the misin?. " .
And a searching here and there for friends
or kin;
There are sad and tearful sijhs.
And a waving of good-bys,
At the8tation when tho train comes in.
Then from out the bagige car,
Oh, so careful, lest to jar, ,
Comes a long and narrow box amid the din.
As tho mourners gather round.
There's a sobbing, wailing sound
At the station wheu the train comes in.
Then tlie ringing of the bell,
And tho wTiiV's. c!?3"!.y tvll,. ...
They are ready a new journey to begin.
For it. brooks wt to be lute,
There are other hearts that wait
At the station when the train comes in.
Hetc F. O'.Y.'i", i,t Fntiiilu Alttui.x.
Ill'.MOH OF THE DAY.
Herd on a train the inmates of a cat
tle car. Merchant Trartltr.
Furniture dealers always have plenty
of spring goods on hand. Laurence
American.
"In what class of factories do tho
most strikes occur?" "Iu clock works,
I believe.'' Eych.
The commercial drummer is probably
so railed because he performs- so skil
fully on the merchant's ear-drum.
Binyhniiiton Leader.
"Never judge a man by the umbrella
he carries; he may have just left an old
cotton one for it at tho restauraut ho last
patrouized." Judye.
She "1 like to think of my girlhood
days." He "Does it not require an ef
fort to carry your miud so far back to tho
past?" Yankee Blade.
"I'd rather be a wild turkey and live
on the prairie," said a littlo boy, "than
be a tame turkey nad be killed every
year." Xfto York Xeics.
Wife (in a tiff) "What do you men
know about a woman's dress? ' Hus
band (in a hollow voice) "The price,
madame!" Lc Figaro.
The life of a locomotive is from fifteen
to twenty-five years. Perhaps if it would
give up the bad habit of smokiug it
would run up to fifty. Judge.
Stranger (.trying to be friendly)
"How is your health!" Dyspeptic (gruff
ly) "How do I know? I haven't had
any for the last five years." Time.
Although it may not be a vice
I'm sure it is a shame,
That we should always find it nice
To have some one to blame.
-Veio York Sun.
A boy baby generally talks before a
girl baby, it is said. But we've noticed
that the girl usually makes up for all tho
lost time before she leaves this sphere.
Statttwtiiii.
First Tramp of the Gaug "Say, fel
lers, here's an apple. Shall I cut it up
into quarters?" Second Tramp "No,
cut it up into fifty-cent pieces.-' Bur
liiKlton Frie J'eng.
Some day there will be trouble be
cause the purchaser of a load of coal in
sists on taking possession of the wagon
and driver for no better reason than that
he paid for them by weight. Washington
l'oat.
"He's un awfully smart boy. I dis
charged him from my employ und told
him I'd never take him back. Then he
eloped with my daughter, and now I've
got to support him until he liuds work !"
Fjmcli .
Sale-nian "That piece of goods will
work up into a good serviceable dress if
you don't think tho pattern is too loud."
Purchaser "Oh, not at ull. The lady
I'm buying it for is a deaf mute."
JJinghaiittoit leader.
"I felt so nervous, maiunm," said a
little girl, referring to an accident ou the
previous day. "What do you mean by
nervous,' my dear.'" "Why, tnumiua,
it's just being in u hurry ull over."
Siriiii(riil! Jtcjiitlilivan.
The Peacemaker "Don't you know it
is very wrong to fight, little boy? What
does the good book say?" Tommy (who
has just polished oil tho class bully)
"I diuino. 1 ain't read it no further than
David an' Gerlire." Puck.
Young Mr. Harduppo "I might have
known you were too old to marry me
before I was foolish enough to propose."
Miss Ann Tique "And yet one would
not have to be so very aged to have that
much sense, either." Terre Haute Fx.
fH'tiiS.
Customer "You advertise these
gloves, former price 75c. per pair, now
one-half oil. and yet you aro charging
?4c. per pair. How is that?" Polite
Shopkeeper "They were y7jc. each,
now they are i!7c. That's off as ad
vertised." Clothier ami Furiiiidtcr.
A Lonesome l.lftlo King.
The King of Anam, now under the
protectorate of France, is a boy nine
years old, Thank-Tai by name. Ho lives
aim st alone. He studies not a little,
however, and lately, when one of his
tutors, in reading to him out of au Ori
ental book of philosophy, faltered aud
stumbled in attempting to explain a pass
age, the child-King said to him, seri-oti-ly,
but without severity: "Had you
not better, before undertaking to explain
those books, look them over and see
w hether you comprehend them yourself .'"
In order to brighten the young King's
existence, the French Government re
cently sent to him from Paris a number
of toys of a very interesting and ingen
ious sort. Previous to their arrival,
King 1'h .nk Tai hail no othet way of
amusing himself thau by watching, hour
utter hour, the red gold fishes swimming
about in a small pond near his chamber.
Cvi ling has become radically a part of
the llritisli light infantry work at severul
stations in Kngluud, and Mill bg tunic,
genetally introduced