RATES OF ADVk. Om Square, ra. Inch, on. InMrtlok 0. Bqoare, on. Inch, on. month.... ' On. dqn.r.,oa. Inch, thru, month...,. One jare, on. Inch, on. year Two futures, on. yesr Qa.rt.r Column, on. rear..... H.lf Colamu, on. ref On. Col.mn, ou jom 1M LrrJ tdnrtlKunli tea cent, per BM owb hv wrtion. Murltfet nl 4thiotlcM gratia. All bill, tot yearly iinvnt. eolloeto qno terir. Temporary KlrertlHment. moat pala Ik Job work etk ra delivery. J. republican. HOR jOlldlllg 1UHHTA, TK JUMP ptrTur, ft tot t ikwtar period VOL. XXIII. NO. 38. TIONESTA, PA,, WEDNESDAY, J AN 14, 1891. S1.50 PER ANNUM. MllelteJ from al Btru of the ilc wUI b Ukn ofuv EST otumbinns nre agitating for frith tbe United States. , about 75,000 persons in le United States. There afo, M many moro persons out of 10 belong to the criminal clues, .60,000 criminals, or one for inhabitants. 'ashington b'tar avers that tho "H which this Government pro take at the world's fair in 1893 eh that tho mo.it picturesque ( tho country cna talk about it content and not do the istice. ir read at tho recent meeting of ih Association described graphi pauper population of England lufflcient to form a procession ersons abreast upward of one miles long. Arranged in single , upers of England would, accord figures, form a line upward -M miles long. rriM alleges that New 1th adventurers, with mail, with mon so in .ny lines as to cause o pluek with which they ahead to their owu ruin, ties for their own destruc ghtfully utilized, might ouly solid and respoctuble, ind impressive. ous reflection on the Intelli .nukiud that whilo animals our language, wo make no all in learning theirs. Ono Ip hoping that some future of men may bo sufficiently patient and large-hearted to at what these dependent crest to say to us may sometimes bo tant as what wo have to tay to id to act accordingly. ig tho last twelve months actual , havo taken up somo 19,000,000 of land in tho United States, or 30,000 square miles. When, says Jhicggo Tribune, we ran incrcaso actively ugriculturul area in one year D extent nearly equal to the whole of tlnnd, and have tho fact passed over x a mere paragraph of commcot, it no longer be doubted that we aro a t nation inhabiting a great country. he example of the heirs of a rich Aus is worthy of imitation iu this coun emarks the Sau Franci .oo Chronicle. , have given $15,000 out of the to found a school of housekeeping Is. If free schools of cooking were ihcd in all American cities, tho who gather statistics at tho end of QauHofoI tho next century would narked decrease in dyspepsia and mess and a considerable gain in I stamina among the American Civilization works havoc among wild animals that are killed for the servico of mankind, lamouta the New York Star, The buffalo has almost entirely disap peared, and now it is said that there aro wobably less than ono hundred thousand iscalsln existence, aud that, at the pres ent rate of slaughtering, in a fuw years the species will be exterminated. It may become necessary for tho Government to institute decisive measures for tho pro tection of the seals, unless wo are willing to tee them wholly disappear. The New Orleans I'icayune is pleased becauso America seems to havo a model wart-hip at lost. Commander Schley, of the cruiser Baltimore, writes in tho high est terms of her seaworthiness and sta '"" " '" tho heavy gale of Octo--j playod such havoc a fleet oft Scarborough, jio maiutuiued a speed vary rom 14.5 to sixteen knots, aud was omfortable when slowed down to ten knots that ono below would not havo known that a gule was blowing but for the whistling of the wind. At no time during tho gale would it have been im practicable to tight her battery. Iu con clusion the Commodore suys : "She is the king pin yet, and when you build any thing better I would like to command it." Accordiug to the New York HWil, Mrs. lleury Ward Beccher grows more beautiful as advancing years and grow ing feebleness take possession of her. She sits in a beautiful buy window sur rounded by birds and (lowers, and drearu of the days when sho and 'Henry" were struggling along in a lit tle Western village, trying to keep tho pot boiling aud the sermons written. But thore were long ago days! Now, though iu comparutivo poverty, Mrs. Ueecher has enough business engage ments to keep her from actual wiiut, aud I)' alio could fulfil one-half the orders Ibsl come to hrr she would be a rich noinaii. Every publishing firm in the aiuntry has asked her to write thu life her dead husband, but owing to her 'h she has refuted them oil. A BUILDER'S LESSON. "How shall 1 habit break!" A. you did that babtt make. As you gathered, you must lose; As you yielded, now refuse. Thread by thread the strands we twist Till they bind us nock and wrist) Thread by thread the patient hand Must untwine ere free wo stand. As we butldod, stone by stone, W. must toll unheled, alone, Till the wall la overthrown. , But remember, as we try, Lighter every test goes by; Wading In, the stream grows deep Toward tne centre's don n ward sweep ; Backward turn, each twp ashore Shallower is than that before. Ah, the precious years we waste Leveling what we raised in haste, Doing what must be undone Ere content or love be won I First across the gulf we cast Kite-born, threads, till lines are passed, Aud habit builds the bridge at last I - John Boyle OWeUly. A MIDiMGHT QUEST. BY ISARGL nOI.MRS. 'You haven't the courage," she as serted. 'Haven't It" retorted Cleo Curry mockingly. "I inherit courage and there isu't a jot or tittle of superstition in my nature." "What's that you're disputin about, girls!" queried Uncle Zcke from the chimney corner. "I say," responded Clco, "that I wouldn't be afraid to go down to the old Willey houso nt midnight, St. Valen tine's cvo and walk down collar back ward with a looking-glass and candle " "Expecting to see the face of her future husband," interpolated Sue. "I should expect to see old Willcy'g ghost peeriug over my shoulder." "I'm not anxious to see tho face of my future husband," Clco retorted sharp ly, "I only want to prove my courngc,to celebrato St. Volenti uc'g Day in approved fushiou." "I'll wngor ten dollars you das'utgo," remarked Lucie Zekc. "I'll stake ray amethyst ring that I dare. Here's my hand." The soft white palm and tho brown knotted ono clasped as a step was heard coming through the back shed. "You must fetch one o' them mangel wurzels in the the bar'l side o' the potato bon, go's we'll know you wout clear down cellar,'' said Uncle Zeke. "Not a word of this," Cleo cautioned in a whisper as they heard a hand fum bling for the latch in the little dark en try. "Capt'n Luke," said Uncle Zekc, with a sly glance at Cleo. The next moment a young man opened the door. It was quite the custom in this Capo Cod town to omit the cere mony of knocking. "Here's a chair next to mo,"-said Sue with the freedom of long acquaintance ship. Cleo and Capt'n Luko exchanged a formal good evening as he seated him self. "Had quite a fall o' snow," suggested Uncle Zeke. "Yes, good sleighing,' said Capt'n Luke. An impressive element seemed to have eutered the room with this good-looking young captain. Tho usual witticisms did not flush around, clco wag absorbed in the long strip of worsted that made a crimson line down her white apron. She fidgeted in hor scat uud proposed a game of euchre. Uncle Zcke and Cleo were partner "We'll beat them evirv tima nri we, Sue?" said Capt'n Luke, with a shade of quiet defiance, as ho swept in tho first tricks with a steady hand, meeting Cleo's eyes with a cool glance, which she re turned in kind. Cleo's mind was running upon that sleigh ride with Capt'n Luifls tho last evening. Ho had come perilously near to a proposal of marriage. Had she been wise or foolish to ward it off so indiffer ently! His manner made her slightly uneasy. Pshaw! What did she care anyhow! She knew she had flirted with him a little this Cape Cod town was so poky in tho wiater but that was no ex cuse for his presuming to think she would marry hiin. When her father's reverses came she bad been sent there to spend a few weeks with these relatives, of whose ex istence she had been scarcely aware be fore. They had welcomed her with open arms and she had found much diversion among them. It was not pleasant to be almost ig nored to-night by Capt'n Luke. She thought of the wealthy suitor sho had left behind in the city, albeit old and ugly, and was half inclined to write that very night and accept him. The eve of St. Valentine was mild for the season. Shortly before midnight a woman in dark garb issued from Uncle Zeke's shed door and walked off toward the old Willey house. Sinco the death of its owner three years ago, Uncle Zeke had held tho Wil ley place iu conjunction with his own and hud garnered the not abundant crops in its cellar. Cleo had taken the key to the house, which hung ueur the shed door, unaware that her sly uncle had slipped out and fumbled for tho key, to assure himself that she was playing no tricks on him. Cleo gained the brow of the hill that sloped towards the shore, crossed a plauk over what had been 'a brook iu summer, climbed a low fence and reached tho water. The tide lapped the shore gently, the sea-breeze kissed her cheek. Two or three skills were rockiug lightly upon the water, upon which the moou shone fitfully. Cleo took the path to the left, where the old Willey house stood dark and lone, aud stood upon thu flat stone tefore the low red door. The windows were all boarded. Clco had explored the place with daylight aud knew all its nooks and corners. She uulocked thu door aud stepped Into the entry. Her heart was beating quito evenly. She had been in a daring mood ever since that night of the slelgh ride and this occasion had furnished an escape-valve for hor feelings, Sho lighted the candle and pushed open the kitchen door. On tho thres hold she stopped in astonishment. In the cavernous fireplace opposite the door a huge fire was roaring and crackling, flooding the room with its light aud eolipsing her candle. Had the patron saint of the season an ticipated her visit and made preparations for hor recoption! She walked up to the fire. A big, round kcttlo hung from tho rusty crane bubbling and hissing like the witches' cauldron in Macbeth. A strange spell was being wrought up on her. Her usually calm common sense was held in abeyance. There was some thing weird and uncanny about the leap ing flames and steaming cauldron in that deserted house. Sho sccmod to bo breath ing an enchanted atmosphere. Yet she was far from fear. She was upborne by some unknown spiritual force. At length she recollected her errand and opened the cellar door. A gust of damp air made her candle flicker. She did not waver. Sho peered down into darkness, then adjusted her glass and candlo and commenced the backward descent, the cobwebs covering her clonk with fantastic tracery. Sho kept her eyes upon her own re flection in tho glass until she reached the bottom of the stairs. As she stood thore a moment a face appeared in the mirror besido hor own, then vanished suddenly. Something like fnintness enme over her. But she resisted, found the barrel of mangel wurzels, snatched one up, as cended tho stairs quickly and set down the candlestick. "Of courso I only thought I saw a faco," she repeated, while Suo's proph ecy about old Willey's ghost thrust it self before her unpleasantly. The lurking superstition which beats with the blood of every one of us, deny it as wo may, was tightening its hold upon her. Sho did not feci iu a hurry to leave the place. A dreamy influence enveloped her. The agencies we call supernatural seemed tho only realities. She half expected to see a band of witches appear and join hands around the cauldron. Sho could scent seme presence near her, and when a rather fantastic old woman, bent with age, in a red cloak and huge poko bonnet, stepped from a recess behind the fireplace, and, without glancing at her, stepped up and stirred tho cauldron, muttering to herself as aho did go, Cleo was not much surprised. She had not bargained for anything half go weird end romantic. Perhaps this was Peggy Piper, tho fortune teller, who, it was reported, held mid night conclaves with the powers of darkness. "Can you read my future for me!" Cleo asked abruptly. The crone turned toward her, with eyes burning darkly in the depths of the cavernous bonnet. "You seek to .know tho future!" sho queried, iu a thin, high-pitched voice with a tremulous quaver. "I will read your destiny," and she turned again to the cauldron, Whilo Cleo drew nearer, strangely fascinated. "Proud," the sybil muttered, "am bitious,, selfish. . Your fortuno ig not so bright, youug lady, that you'necuV be anxious to forcast it." "Haven't I as fair a chance for happi ness as other people!" Cleo demanded. "No. You're going to sell yourself for a flue houso in the city and a carriage and diamonds. You are mercenary and eartlcss besides. Hal you don t deny it I You will find yourself one day staring for love, without the power to seek it except In forbidden paths." Cleo stood with her fascinated gaze upon tho soething registrar of fate. "You have auother lover, young, strong, warm-hearted. You have seen his love for you and encouraged it day by day. You have looked into his eyes with those dangerous, ones of yours. Your voice has been modulated to suit his ear. Oh 1" with a jeering laugh, that grated ou Cleo's nerves, "you couldu't deny yourself the pleasure of proving your power over him." "You are repeating tho silly gossip of the-place," Cleo retorted. "You as good as said, 'Take me. I am to be had lor the asking,' " the crono went on, unheeding. "You led him to the verge of a proposal of marriage, and then were utterly surprised to find him in your net. Oh, yes I But he is proud, too. Two proud souls, two of them," she muttered. "Young lady, keep your smiles hereafter for the one who is to be your lord and master." She stood some moments in sileuce, then scanned Cleo's flushed face. "You have a true, clear eye, in spito of all," she said dubiously. "No mau would guess what a cold heart lay behind it. You care ouly for couquest,thut you may boast " "Your cauldron lies I" Cleo exclaimed. The half truths uttered, the unaccustomed conditions had wrought upon her fancy aud made her feel guilty, but the in justice of the lost accusation restored her equilibrium. "You see only the surface," Cleo con tinued, though why she should exchange words with the crone was a mystery. "You cannot look into uiy soul. If you could" Sho paused. Tho sybil peered deeply iuto her flushed fuce, over which u ten der emotion was stealing sjftly, then stepped forward and took her baud. Cleo felt a strange electric thrill us she with drew it and stepped back. Tho next moment mask, cloak and bonnet were lying on the floor, aud Capt'n Luke was standing, looking into her eyes with tho steady magnetism of his own. "You!"she exclaimed. "Ithoughtit was Peggy Piper." He smiled slowly. "Do you feel better after the accusa tions you have heaped upon mcC she asked. "Yes. Did you uot deserve them! I believe iu justice," 'It was injustice!" she siid, quickly. ''Injustice! Do you mean to say ,that those sweet smiles and looks of your wore genuine after all! That you were giving me measure for measure, that it was only woman's coquetry prompted you tho other night!" "I have not said," she began, but ho had both her hands iu a firm grasp. "Look into my eyes and say that you have been playing with me if you can." Her eyes drooped instead. In an instant his strong arm was around her. He had played for high stakes and won. "And now shall I accompany you home!" he asked, after lie had explained his stolen march upon her. "And set the tongues of the gossips wagging! No; I must go us I came. She gathered up glass, candle and man gle wurzel and sped homeward, hung up tho key and hurried to her room. When the next morning Undo Zcke found the root beside his plato ho hand ed Cleo the $10 bill. "Did you see a ghost!" queried Sue, thinking Cleo rather non-committal over the adventure. "Yes, and yet I live to tell the talc," returned Cleo in mock heroic stylo. When her engagement to Capt'n Luko was announced she told the story to Sue and Uncle Zeke. -Neto York Mercury. The Nice Taste of Cannibals. Mr. Lumholtz writes- "The Austra lians are cannibals. A fallen foe, be it man, woman or child, is eaten as tho choicest delicacy; they know no greater luxury than the flesh of a black man. There are superstitious notions connected with cannibalism, and though they have no idols and no form of Divino worship. they scorn to fear nn evil being who seems to haunt them, but of whom their notions are very vague. Of a supreme good Being they have no conception whatever, nor do they believe In any ex istence after death." The blacks do not like to eat whito people, whoso flesh, they say, has a salt taste; but the very thought of black human flesh, which they call talcoro. makes their eyes sparkle. Tho natives do not, as a rule, eat persons of their own tribe, though there nre instances to the contrary; tho blacks south of tho Gulf of Carpentaria, it is said, do not kill persons for the sake of eating them, but the women eat those who die a natural death ; near Moreton Bay, also, the dead are eaten, and by their own relatives. The reason why the white man's flesh is held in disgust arises, apparently, from the fact of his eating so much salt beef. The flesh of the Chinese, whoso food con sists largely of rice and other vegetables, is much prized. It is said that far north in Queensland ten Chinamen were de voured at one dinner. But during tho whole time Mr. Lumholtz spent on Her bert River only two blacks woro killed and eaten. The uncivilived Australian native is usually sound and healthy and not much troubled with sickness, with the excep tion of skin diseases, which be gets from the white man ; but when tho Australian becomes "civilized" and wear clothes ho becomes more liable to illness; ho re gards cloth simply as ornaments, which ho may wet, or not, as he chooses. Edinburgh llaicw. Plants Serviceable for Salads. - JI.-Ul'Qri-dc Vilmorin, President erf too Botanical Society of France, recent ly delivered a lecture on salads, which is full of hluU for housewives. Ho began by speaking of the nutritive value of salads, due to potash salts, which aro usually eliminated from vegetables in the process of cooking, and said that salad is even more desirablo in winter than in summer, being a preventive of rheumatism and biliousness. Ho enu merated the following plants which are used in France : The leaves of lettuce, corn-salad, common chicory, barbe do capucin, curled and Bataviau endives, dandelion, green, blanched and half blanched; watercresses, purslane, in small quantities blanched salsify tops, of a pleasant nutty flavor; Witloef, or Brus sels chicory; tho roots of celoriuc, or round-rooted celery; the flowers of nas turtium and vucca, the fruit of capsi cum and tomato, and in tho South of France, rocket, picridiuin and Spanish onions. Various herbs are added to a French salad to flavor or garnish it, such as chervil, chives, ghallot and borage. In addition many boiled vegetables are dressed with vinegar and o.Ncw York Star. Suicide Iu the Red Sea. The Orient liner Lusitania, which has just arrived at Plymouth, England, re ports tho suicide in the Red Sea of a beautiful young girl, Miss B. McKnight, who took passage at Melbourne and was going to England to bo married. She was observed to be depressed in spirits when the vessel had ouly been a week or two at sea and wag heard to regret that she had consented to wed. When the Lusitania was in the Straits of Bab-el-Mandcb one night Miss McKnight sud denly broke off an apparently agreeable conversation with some of her fellow passengers, and, mounting the rail, leaped into tho almost boiling waters of the Red Sea that never falls below ninety six degree. Tho steamer was at once hove to aud boats were lowered. Tho search continued for two hours. Noth ing, however, being seen of the suicide it is supposed she wag eaten by a shark. Washington Star. Life of Trees. Recent information gathered by the German forestry commission assigns to the pine true 500 and 700 years as the maximum, 425 years to the silver fir, 275 years to the larch, 215 years to the red beech, 210 to the aspen, 200 to thu birch, 170 to the ash, 115 to the alder, and 130 to tho elm. The heart of tho ouk begius to rot ut about the age of 3U0 years. The holly ouk alone escapes this law, it is said, and there U a specimen of this aged 410 years iu existence near Aschulleuburg iu Germany Chicago Tuna. MAKING POSTAGE STAMPS VARIOUS STAGES OP THE W0BH DESCRIBED, Mnklnjt the Plates and Printing--Gumming aud Drying the Shcctf ot Stamps. If there is one thing more than another that is in general use and about the manufacture of which so little is known to tho public who use them it is the post age stamp. An immense number are used in this country annually, and for over fifteen years the American Bank Note Company, which is now situated on Trinity place in the rear of old Trinity churchyard, this city, has had tho con tract for their manufacture for this coun try. This company is the largest concern in the world engaged in this class of work, and besido manufacturing Uncle Sam's stamps, is doing the same kind of work for the Governments all over the world. In London and Paris the bank note business is not as extensive as in New York. Neither has tho same artistic standard of steel plate work been reached in any other country as has been at tained in this country. The contract for the printing of the Btamps for the United States is given out by each new Administration, every four years. Samples of paper that is to be used are furnished with the propjsals.and bidders are advertised for iu the public prints. Experience has shown, however, that notwithstanding the immensity of the contract and the consequent enor mous profit, that tho bidders are few, usually not more than four concerns en gaging in the competition. The Government, which supports an extensive establishment for thfs sort of work exclusively, at Washington, known as tbe Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and where tho United States currency and United States bonds ar printed, has ever since the existence of the bureau entered into the competition for the post age stump contract, but bns never suc ceeded in underbidding the American Bank Note Company. The first stage in the manufacture of the stamps is tbe making of the die. Tho design settled upon by the Government is then made. The engraver then makes an engraving in deep intaglio upon process-softened steel. After the device and border is cut, tlje steel is hardened and the intaglio is ready for use. Then the upper die or punch is made. A cube of soft steel is pressed by a hydraulic ram upon tho intaglio engraving, and after it has been forced iuto all the de pressions it is slightly touched by tho engraver's graver aud burnisher. A cameo counterpart of the intaglio is. thus formed, and from these the plate is made up by pressing the hardened steel upon the softer metal. Tho plates which print 200 stamps each impression belong to the Govern ment, and each night are taken from the presses and locked up in massive safes by tho United States Postago Stamp Collec tor, a representative of tho Government at tho Bank Note Company's establish ment. When they aro worn out they aro cut iuto pieces under tbe directions of the Government. This postago stamp collector distributes tho stamps to tho various postmasters at the order of the Postmaster-General. Tho paper upon which the stamps are printed is supplied - ly-ths- .Gpyergment I daily upon the requisition of the manu facturer, a careful record being kept of tho amouut of the issue, and the com pany must return the full number of sheets whether in good or "spoilt" work. Tho presses used each carry five plates of 200 stamps each. They are tremendous affairs, and only ten of them are used, each necessitating the employment of one rann to manage them and two girls, one to luy the sheets on and the other to take off. The rolling of the ink into the plate, tho filling iu of the liueg aud the final polishing of the plute, is ull done now by the press. Formerly it was all done by tho printer, whose art really consisted iu tho filling in and polishing, tho luttet being done with whiting and the palm ol the lund. Then the plato was put in the small press. The sheet was laid ou by the girl, and the man helper pulled the press, the plate passing through mulct the forced weight. It was only three years ago that this form was gone through with the hand presses. The Bheets, after being carefully counted, are then taken to the gumming room. The gumming too, until quito recently, was done by hand with a broad brush, but now a more effective aud rapid mot hod has beeu devised of passing a roller over tho backs of tho sheets by machinery, applying the gum evenly over the entire 6urtace. The gum is imported iu a farinaceous state, and resembles undiluted gelatine. The gummed sheets are tlieu removed to the drying room, where they aro placed on rucks aud passed over a series of steam pipes. They are couuted iu each department in order that tho re sponsibility may be placed if any are lost or mislaid. The gummed and dried sheets are then piled up fifty thick, uud placed under a hcuvy piece of machinery provided with inauy hundred punches, so arranged as to pierce the space be tween the stumps. The sheets are run through length wise and afterwards changed iu position aud the cross perforutious made. They are then ready for use, and aro held awaiting the requisition of the Postuias-ter-Gcuerul. TV'eia York Acta. The Motlc-n Form of the Piano. Tho invention of the modern form of the piano dates buck to about the year 1700. The gpiuet or rectuugului-shiiped instrument wus called a virginal. It is frequently stated that this was done to compliment Eliyuheth, tliu " Virgin Queen," but this cannot l.e true, us it is found mentioned umoiig the instruments jf Henry Vlll. It it; luoio likely tuut it was so named lierati-e intended ns au instrument for young ladies. HI. Luuit llcfutlic. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. A torpedo net constructed of interlock ing steel rings is goon to be put to a practical test. A new gun has been perfected by Big tior Ouidolli, of Lucca, which will fire sixty-four shots a minute. Tho British Admiralty engineers are conducting experimental nincty-six-hour runs of boilers under forced draught at Portsmouth. About 4500 species of wild bees and 1100 species of wasps are known. Great Britain has 170 species of tho former and sixteen of the latter. Ih the German tests of the Maxim gun, 84,000 rounds were fired from a single barrel, and the rifling was not materially injured until after 20,000 steel bullets had been discharged. Much improvement has been made in securing color tints in pictures. One process combines a heliotype print with lithographic tints. Better work of this class is constantly being turned out. A small battery has been brought out which promises to be very useful to young electricians. The outfit includes a six-candle power lamp, and a battery lasting a couple of hours on continuous work. A brilliant black coat upon zinc can be obtained by immersing the zinc ob jects in a solution of ten parts copper free sulphate of iron and six parts of am moniac salts in fifteen parts of boiling water. The saltcst piece of water upon earth is the Lake of Ururaia, in Persia, situated more than 4000 feet above the sea level. It is much gaiter than tho Dead Sea, tho water being found on analysis to contuin nearly twenty-two per cent, of suit. A lasting machine that enables nno operator to last 3000 pairs of shoes a week is one of tho latest things in labor saving machinery. It tackles anything from light feminine foot wear to tho heaviest brogans, and the product is su perior to hand work. Mr. Edison is trying to genernto electricity from coal in sufficient quanti ties to bo of value as a niotivo power, lie, gays that a pound of coal contains enough lutent energy to carry itself around tho globe. Fully eighty-five per cent, of this power is wasted in the pro cess of conversion iuto heat. It is proposed to put COO to 1000 steel tubular frame eight-wheel wagons, fitted with automatic brakes, on tho Government railways in Natal, South Africa, and that they shall be paid for by one-half the annual savings mado by using them in moving freight as com pared with the cost of moving an equal quantity on ordinary wagons. Tho Two Whitehouso Watchmen. These two watchers are among the oldest employes of tho White House at Washington, and one of them is closely associated, in a humble way, with one of tho most exciting periods in its history. W. S. Lewis was one of the Whito Houso doorkeepers iu tho time of Lincoln, and each night, between 10:30 and 11 o'clock during tho war period, ho acted as the escort of the President when ho went from the Executive Mansion to the War Department to get tho latest news of tho conflict betoro going to bed. Lewis left the Whito Uouso and went on the city police force, where he remaiued for many years. About twelve years he came back to tho White House service, " whetO-ho.. has been ever sinco. T. F. Pcudel, the other-night doorkeeper, has 'been employed in The Wllita. House for twenty-six years. Those two me",k new tho face of every mau of promiucu.i in public life, aud they can spot a crnuk at the other end of tho avenuo by gaslight. They open any telegrams which come to tho Executive Mansion after midnight, and cetcrmino whether it is advisable to to show them to tbe President or not. There is no ono at the Executive Man sion at night who can act for the Presi dent. Only the members of his family and tho domestic employes of his house hold sleep at tho White House. So if anything demanding immediate attention should bo delivered at the Executivo Mansion after midnight, the President would be aroused from bis sleep to at tend to it. It is seldom that a telegram of any kind is delivered ut the Executive Mansion between midnight and day break, for tho local manager of the West ern Union Telegraph Company has in structions to hold all messages which aro not of tbe utmost importance until morn ing. Aud it may not occur once iu six mouths that the President is called from his bed to read a Iuto dispatch. Atie Yrk atnr. Potatoes for Starch. Tbe annual "potato raid" is in pro gress in Aroohtoek, Me., as the starch fuctories are begiuuing their season's work. Says the Boston 1'rmntcript: "This is oue of the most novel sights to be wit nessed iu this section of the country the long line of teams hauling tho potatoes to the factories and standing waiting their turn to unload. There is a great crop in Aroostook this year, the largest for many years, iu fact, and there will bo a good supply for tho fuctories, as tho Jatter are paying very fair prices. There are about forty fuctories iu Aroohtoek County and on its border, and as they uso upward of two million bushels yearly, it is seen that potato raising aud starch making iu Aroo stock arc industries of considerable mag nitude." Curious Old Indian Signs. About five miles above Morvuu is a mystery which the people of thir com munity cannot explain. Iu a hummock near the river are two complete circles, one ninety and thu other 140 feet in diame ter, the siuuller circlo iuside the larger. These circle, which are much like those left by a circus performance, are com pletely barren of vegetutiou of all kind. Theie circles have been there since the recollection of tho oldest citizen, and none kuow how or when they cauin there. It must be that they aro Indian fcifjus, relics of by gone days, when thtt fciivau warrior was lord of ull he sur veyed. Mhwh (O'u.) U'eUgmjit, FROM THE JAPANESE. 'So voting, he cannot Know th way,' Thus I heard a mother fay'. At the close of a summer cloy; But he knew the rood, it seems, ' Into the shadow-land of dreams, And she wept above his rlay. v Biuce, though young, he knew the wayl Gone, where summer moths resort, Or small boats that leave the port, Sailing over the stormy brine, As, with this long sleeve of mine, Under the gloom of alien skies, I dry my weeping eyeel If I could be whore the billow whirls, In a lacquered skiff, with a paddle of pearls, Young no more, but old and gray. You may be sure I'd know the way. -B. 11. Sloddnrd.in Scrilmer. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Ex tempore A stopped watch. Trying times The quarter sessions. ' t Electric belles Female telegraphists. Items of interest Pawnbrokers' pledges. Give no back talk to a humpback. Eiftingf. Tho pupil of the cyo is incessantly lahcd. 1'itttburg JJitputch. Tho flower of the family usually blooms in the shade. Denver Itoml. r It is odd that all men are trying so hard to get even. Dallas (Terns) Aeict. A man's lot may be hard, but his neigh, bor's hens can make it look fuzzy. Ding' hamtrn, Lender. Stove "How did you get iu here?' Stovepipe "Oh, I elbowed my way in." -Neu York Journal. The mau who wins the day ought ta have plenty of time at his disposal. Dinghamton Jiepublicnn . "Dress makes the man,'' we often hear. And solf-made men are deemed successes; But woman never will appear, Uulcss she's poor, in selt-niado dresses. i'ltck. No wonder hearts are so often wounded ; they're subject to so much bcttiug. Dinghamton Depublican. The capitalist who loaned money to the cattle man referred to it as a beef stake. WaHngton Mar. - Those mon who with Indian ways aro ac quainted Declare that in war they are bad as they're painted. Chicago fbsf. Mrs. DcFadd "Whnt an eccentric per son Mrs. Homebody is?" Mrs. Dcmania "Isn't she the oldest crenturcl She isn't making a collection of anything. Neie York Weelly. A scrap of paper, creased and yellow ; All that is left of the dear old past; ( A tailor's bill I paid tho fellow; It was my urst wmuu x wer.i my iosi IHtlsburg Bulletin. Homobody "How did you spend your time whilo iu Europe?" Hcturnod Tourist "I spent most of it limiting through my pockets for tips." Nev York Weekly. Up in Fraction: Employer (to neW' boy) "Have you any brothers?" New Boy "Yez-zir, one." Employer "Ono?" New Boy "That is, two half brothers." Ilarper'i Dazar. Mr. Bingo "Tommy, when you got to bo the head of a family, what will you say to your sons?" Tommy (thoughtful ly) "I will tell them how good I wag when I was a boy." Ncm Orleam Timet Democrat. Time is not money always not a bit. That man will tell a very dilTreut talo Who trios to stenl tho savings of a linnk Aud gets instead a vear or so iu jail, I'liikvlrlphia I'imcs. From t'iO Contribution Bos: "Tho idea," said the Africa-niissionorv. in dignantly. "What's the maltei ?' . idea of sending celluloid poker chips aid tho heathen iu au ivory country !' JVee York Sun. McFinglo "How much is Brownsi worth?" McFunglo "Nothing." "Wh; I understand he hud somo valuable pro erty?" "Oh, yes; his property is wort a good deal. But Brownsou iumself L worthless." Hotton Traveler. Wild-Eyed Operator "Two amln $5000 worth. Stamp Clerk (in 4to ishiucut) "Five thousand dolla worth of stamps?" "Yes, I want to i vest iu something that won't take a tm ble on my hands." Uhi&igo Ti Uume, Love is an orchard wuer J our foet 111 courtship lend us lor au hour, To pluok the fruit the-heurt must uut For uye, ijnd some of it iss-.veet Aud eouie of it is sour. Chicago 11 Husband "Anything you want dr town to-duy, my dear? Shall I o some of tbut self rising flour?" Wif "We havo plenty lefts, but I wish would stop at an intelligence ollice order mo a self rising servant girl. Hcie York Weekly. At an examination in a Milwu school recently, ono boy said, "Hu bul was a muu-eater." Hannibal so' enough like cannibal to mislead a cl Another described tho Executivo I sion as "a place where they kill fo' Texat Sifting. A begging letter sent to a rich asking for a pair of cast oil lr closed pathetically w ith these words , send me, most honored sir, the troij So IH, uud thev will be woven into tlio laurel crown of your good deeds iu heaven.". t'tiegtitiL IHarttrr. It is told of Ahbd Liszt tint en one of his concert tours through tierniiny he was tendered a banquet ni a small towu by his udiniicrs. Whcii it wu found that thirteen were scale I at the l iblo tho general embarrassment was elici t ed by Liszt remarking I "Do not be . larnied ut such a trillo. 1 can cat loi l.o per sons." Chicago Jhrl. No Burglars In Mexico. In Mexico the burglar is positively un known. The houses, construiU 1 as they are, iu view of uprisings, rt dilu tions, etc., present t.j th.i v. o I I lu burglar but u small chance i ,i ess. With what blank walls, linn ,i e ! .iu dowsaud toll I woo'len iloois, lt; Iwciler w ithin the average udolie is u , i,. I :t, niylill ill to vmiIi-I.iihI the i,n y ,i fcgimvut. Chicagu Time: 1 4
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