' THE FOREST REPUBLICAN b pabUihe every Wedaeday, ky J. E. WENK. Offloa In Bmeaxbaugh & Co.'s Building kui murr, tionmta, r Tarma, . . . tl.BO pwTtir, tE&szsss. MrH ,M Oorraapondmc solicited frma al aart t tha ountry. Ne.eUet will tea Uo .funMU RATES OF ADVBRTISIMflB Forest EPUBLICAN. fln Rnnan. Ann fnnh. on. ilMertfOSHtA On. Bauars. one Inch. on. month ..A One Square, one Inch, three month. . S ( One Square, one inch , on. year W ( Two Squares, one year ....r J3J Quarter Column, one year.. ...... 8Q( Hail Column, one year............. 0 n. ftnlnmn rai.fMP ........ 10 Legal advertisement ten cent. pa-TO ana lnwrtlon. Marriages and death notices jratlg. A All bill, for yearly advertisement collofl quarterly. Temporary advertisement DM be paid In advance. Job work cash an delivery. t VOL. XXIV. NO. 49. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAHCH 30, 1892. $1.50 PER ANNUM. There she The California Fruit-Grower say there it no doubt a to the toil nnd climate of California being admirably adapted to the successful cultivation of ramie. j With soma six thousand homicides in the United State last year there were but 123 legal elocutions. Judge Lynch, though, contrived to attend 195 more. The succoss of the French postal sav ing banks, which were established ten " yean ago, is shown by the report for 1890. At the close of that year the total deposits were over $20,000,000,tho number of depositors numbering over 2,000,000. . Not, content with planning an under, ground railway, on 3 of Berlin's civil engineer -plau underground streets. Thoy are to be covered with a close grat . ing of itcel, well supported, which admits air, light and rain, and over . v : u .. - i -1 i a tr. - : - .1 nuibu Uig uouut DUUOb utiiuu ta uiiiau A company, backed by Eastern cap italists, has been incorporated in Chi cago, 111., for the manufacture oi Ameri can flax. Thecapital stock is $2,000,000. Speaking for the new company its attor ney said: "At presont nearly all tho flax ' used in this country is imported. This company has experimented to its own satisfaction that it can manufacture the American article- much cheaper than it can be imported, and, at the same time, furnish as good an article as that made in foreign countries." - -The gross receipts of the Philadelphia and Reading system will hereafter be fau,uuu,uuu aunuauy, anu tno numoor of its employes will approximate 100,- 000, being more than are employed by any. single corporation on this planet. The acquirement of the Poughkeepsio Bridge and the lines tributary thereto throws the Reading and its entire aug mented -system into the very heart of New England, giving it the only all-rail oute from the Middle and Southern State to tho East, with connections with all important New England roads, nd enabling it to virtually control the coal traffic of that entire region. The Boston Transcript says: The decision of the Supreme Court that the "habitual criminal" act is constitutional is a gratifying one. The act provides that on conviction of a third felony a person may be sentenced to the Stale Prison for twenty- five years. The prin cipal which underlies this legislation is sound one. The man who proposes to live by preying upon the community has no right to live, in the community. This U one of the propositions which prison reformers long ago laid down, and in securing the passage of the law, which the court now sustains, they have done tha community a gront service. Asafcctida as a cure for "grip" has been ridiculed by a great many physi cians, but most of thorn admit, adds tho New York Post, that they have never prescribed it. In the West asafcetida in pills of four grains has been tried with gratifying results. . Quick recoveries are reported in nearly every instance, with out the usual sequel of debility. In Louisville alone 20,000 of the pills were sold in one day recently. No bad effects can follow the use of asafestida, for of all things it is a sedative. In Asiatic countries it is employed as a condiment, but this is a use to which few persons will ci re to put it. Many old people in the yfeat who were far gone with the disease have, it is asserted, been cured by the asafoBtida pills. They should be taken, according to their admirers, thiee times a day with a glass of water, and taken in this way are warranted not to taint the breath. Occasionally, something turns up to prove, remarks tho Boston Transcript, that some of our homelier methods in therapeutics, "old women's remedies," a the doctor's sneeringly call them, are found to be reasonably scientific after all. Lately, for instance, an expert, who has been experimenting in M. Pasteur's laboiatory, has discovered that no living disease germ can resist for more than a few hours the antiseptic power of essence of cinnamon, which seems to be no less effective in destroying microbes than is corrosive sublimate. -Its scent will kill them. A decoction of cinnamon is ric otnended for influenza cases, typhoid fever and cholera. Perhaps some of us can remember when elderly ladios used to carry in their wonderful pockets, the capacity of which was enormous, bits of cinnamon or other pungeut and fragrant spice, the odor of which would betray their coming many foot away. Whether it was carried as a preventive or merely for the satisfaction of having something to nibble was not revealed to us youngs sters of those days. Peppermint candy was always a recognized stimulant agaiwt attack of somnolence at sermon time at church. Chile is woman' Utopia. Can Tote on all questions. EVERY DAY. And the tumult of the street And oeaseless tread of restless feet; v What varied human forms we moot, Every day. Some hardened with unwhlspered woe; Bad secrete God alone oan know; '' We see them wandering; to and fro, ' Every day. Some seared by time's decay or blight; With furrowed brow and fndinglght, Who haunt our feot from nwn 'till night, Every day. Borne swayed by passion deep and strong, Enkindled by some burning wrong, Unheeded by the listless throng, Every day. rbe lust of power, the greed for gain, Twin tyrant of the heart and brain; We see the ruin of their reign, Every day. The crafty ghouls that throng the street, Wearing the garment of deceit; Who breathe to lie and live to cheats Every day. And some aspiring to be great, With beaming eye and heart elate, Scorning the thorny thrust of .fate, Every day. The youth enthralled by some fond dream, Or borne along on fancy's stream, Believing all things what they seem, Every day. The aged tottering toward the tomb, No light to lift their rayless gloom, Nor hope their weary way illume, Every day. The rich and poor, the old and young, With silent lip or fluent tongue. And griefs untold or joys unsung, " Every day. Thus in the drama of the town, Borne bear across or wear a crown Until death rings the curtain down, Every day. D. B. Bickels, in Now York Press. SARAH BY LUCY C. LIM.Itt. URRIEDLY Sarah Molyneux crossed the hall of her aunt's house in Cheltster and stood irresolutely for a moment at the head of the old-fashioned staircase. Her hand amoved a little neiv- ously on the balus trade, and the line between her delicate dark brows deepened. "If it were only over with or needn't be at all," she reflected. But there was no way to avoid the unpleasant task ahead of her, and accordingly Sarah passed down the stairs and into the square parlor over-looking the garden. In about half an hour old Mrs. Thorpe in her room upstairs heard the front door close, and a quick step go down the garden pathway. Presently Sarah came back. The old Jady was popped up in bed and turned a pair of very bright, clear eyes upon her niece as she entered the room. "Well," Mrs. Thorpe exclaimed with impatience. "Sit right down and tell me all about it. And don't oblige me to ask tco many qnestions. You know bow I bate to have to wring anything out of you. Sarah laughed. "I'll do my best, Aunt Polly," she answeredittingdown in tho window and looking with gentle indulgence at tho old lady. "I suppose I must begin at the beginuing. I found Mr. Morison, of course, in the parlor and he fairly jumped at the business ques tion." "Humph, what'd he say 1" "Said that he would not think of dis turbing you while you were ill but that it was very important for him to know when he could take possession of the house. He intends putting up the fac tory at once, he says. He observed that Mr. Beecham had explained how fond we were of the old house and all that, but of course we could hardly expect him to be sentimental in a business matter." "Did he talk like that right to your face, Sarah Molyneux?" "Yes, Aunt I cau't say well it didn't sound quite so bold ; but those were his words. " "Who does he favor in looks the Turners, I guess." Mrs. Thorpe leaned back and closed her eyes a moment, vis ions of the high cheek bones and promi nent noses of the Turners floating before her. Sarah thought of them too,sharply in contrast with the looks of her recent guest. "He's not a bit like the Turners," she said, presently. "I don't know the Morisons much," she added. "Let me see he is not very tall rather slight but looks strong and has a clean-shaven dark face." "Handsome?" Mrs. Thorpe'i eyes opened for an instant. "Oh, no not at all oh no, not the least bit handsome; but be has a quick, bright sort of look." "So he's going to put up a factory dear.dear I did not think but well no of course the property's his since your uncle Ezra left it to bim by will I never thought Ezra'd do it. Always took for granted he meant it should be miue out right and after letting me . live here forty years." "I said something of the kind to Mr. Morison. He's coming back this even ing." "What for; he isn't going to build to night, is het" "Oh, no. He wanted to see the gar den very particularly." "Well, you make it clear I want the plants." When the objectionable guest bad paid his second visit, Sarah came back to her aunt's room lookiog very much dis couraged. "Well, what now?" demauded the old lady with a scorn;. "He says we can't have those gardens disturbed, Auut il'ylly," will Sarah, sit ting down d-cVediy. "I took him down to the arbor, and we had a very nice talk at first. I really almost liked him. We began about country life, and he told mo how much he had longed for a real country home a place something like this, he said then he asked who took care of tho garden, and I told him I was your gardnor, and how much we both loved the flowers. I showed him the tree planted when I was a baby, and then the rosebud for my tenth birthday; and he said that he should think we'd hate to leave it all then I explained you wanted the plants; but he said oh, nol they were part of the property." "Turner straight through and through," declared the old lady. "Grasping all they can get. I will have the plants, though; I guess Ezra's will had nothing to say to them." "I could scarcely be civil after that," pursued Sarah, her face flushing in the dusk. I changed the subject, and asked bim how nearly he was related to the Turners ; but he said it was very distant, lie told ne where he lived as a boy. It seems his father had a paper in some country village Saul I thiuk he called it, and he was a very visionary, unprac tical, enthusiastic kind of man. I guoss he didn't provide much for the family. Anyway Sir. Morison says he started out young in life to carve his own future, and ho has been quite successful only he Intends to be thoroughly so, he says, if possible." "By way of my garden. Humph 1" "He says he enjoys obstacles, llo likes something to conquer. I told him I had no fancy for battleQelds; he said a skir mish was as good as success to him. Oh, Aunt, by the way, do I look like the Turners?" "Well, some," said the old lady, re luctantly. Sarah crossed the room and in the faint light regarded her face at tentively in the long, narrow mirror. It was a thin, clear-cut face, rather shadowy as to what might or might not bo its owner's strong or weak points; the face of a girl to whom events or emergencies were unknown. Lifo had written al most nothiug upon it that gave it charm, and'he eyes were a pretty hazel with black lashes and delicate brows. "Tho Hatfleid Turners," pursued the old lady, as Sarah sat down again. "You do look some like them. Why?" "Oh, Mt. Morison said I had a Turner look," the girl answered. "Ho tried to make out we are cousins." "Well you are twice removed. His mother's your cousin, I think." "I must ask him. He'll bo back in the morning, he says." Well, I declare to gracious the man means to force me out of this bed, I be lieve. Sarah, you must speak up and not let him impose upon you." About eleven o'clock the next morning very unusual sounds floated up to the old lady from the parlor where Mr. Morison was again "interviewing" Sarah. Some one was playing on the old piano; then a man's voice, a clear fine tenor, could be heard. The song was one the old lady remembered in her youth "Phyllis is my only love" and hor withered cheek flushed with pleasure. "Sarah," she said, directly her niece ap peared, "did you ask that young man to sing? 1 want you should inquire if he knows another piece like that." Sarah's eyes were very soft and bright. "Aunt," she said eagerly, "would it look bold if I sang a duet with Mr. Morison? He's coming back this after noon." "What'll you sing? You don't know what you're talking about, Sarah." "Docs he think the piano's his?" de manded the old lady with a sudden re turn of severity. Saiah looked miser able. "Ho says it is Aunt," she admitted. There was an ominous silence; then Mrs. Thorpe closed her eyes again. "Well, it was Ezra's," she admitted. It was with mingled feelings that she listened that afternoon to the singing from below. Love of music compelled her to enjoy keenly the way in which Sarah and the audacious Mr. Morison sang "I would that my love" and "Oh, wert thou in the cauld blast." While resentment against what she felt an un just will, depriving her and her niece of her cherished home, made her consider everything done or said by Mr. Morison objectionable, yet somehow she found herself looking forward eagerly to her niece's next report of their unbidden guest. "Ho is going to be married soon, Aunt Polly," Sarah related. "Perhaps that is why be is in such a hurry about the house. He's been telling me about the young lady." "Well, upon my soul. Seems to me he's very free with his confidences. Mar ried? What'd he say about her?" "Oh, I don't know exactly," said Sarah; "he said she was the kind of girl I'd get along quickly with ; it seems, ever so long ago he made up his miud never to marry any one but her." "Well, and were there any of those obstacles he talks about?" sniffed the olu lady. "Oh, yes. But he says there's quito a touch of romance in the whole affair. He's" a very well, masterful sort of per son, Aunt. I can quite understand whut he means when he says he enjoys ovvicoming difficulties. Hu isn't the sort of person any one could trifle with easily." "I guess I will when I get around. What with the garden and the piauo and the dear knows what all I'll be grateful if ho leaves us the clothes to our backs. Wbat else'd you talk about?" "Oh, a great many things. Books some. He's fond of German and, oh, I meant to tnll you, he's coming to morrow inorniug and going to read a little German with me." "Well, Sarah, you just see here. Let that young mau kuow you've something to do besides fool around with hiiu. I know; he wauts to force me up. I'll see Dr. Baker, 1 guess, before that Tom Morisou gets me out of the house." 'Ob, Aunt I it's just because he wants, he says, to familiarize himself with the place." "Well, he's got all the time there is after we're gone. I want you should be very distant with him and, Sarah, I guess you'd better not begin any German readings." During Mr. Morison' next visit Sarah appeared in her aunt's room with a very anxious expression. "Aunt Polly," she said, with an effort at composure, "Mr. Morison' brought the German books, and I don't know what to say about It I" "Well, go on," said the old lady, "I suppose you're bent on it any way, and perhaps he'll help you some." She lay very still when she was alone, sometimes with her eyes open, but gen erally keeping them closed as pictures from the past, and visions of what might be ahead of her floated through her brain, and the peculiar cruelty of her brother's will imoto her heart afresh. When she had been loft a widow forty years ago, Ezra Turner had promptly bade her stay on in the house which had seen the happy years of her married life, and which had been endeared to her by a hundred different associations; when the sorrows it had witnessed consecrated tho place almost as tenderly as its periods of joy, while from the time she had brought her little orphan niece Sarah home, a new interest was given her life, yet one inseparably bound tip with the old man sion. Ezra's will foil like a thunderbolt upon the old lady and her niece. In deed, there was little question but that it caused the weak turn which confined her to her room; and as she lay thero now, faintly conscious of the voices from below, something like a wish never to leave the old home save for a final rest ir g place brought a hot moisture into her eyes. It Beeuoed a long time before Mr. Mori son went away. When the door had closed upon him at last Mrs. Thorpe alert for every sound, heard Sarah lin gering on the stairs. Presently the girl appeared. Her cheeks were scarlet. "Well," demanded the old lady, "what now? what new thing's he going to claim?" Sarah's color now swept all her face. "Oh, Aunt Polly," she said, "it's all as queer as queer can be. Ob, if you'll only let me. Please oh, Aunt Polly, it seems Mr. Morison made his mind up right away, the very first day, he says and ho never wanted anything so much before" "Sarah Molyneux," said the old lady, sitting upright, "what ails you? Speak English." "Oh, he's asked me to marry him, Aunt Polly," said Sarah; "that's it; and he says I mustn't say no he made all that up about going to be married or rather, he says he was bound to make me say yes." Mrs. Thorpe remained rigid in the same attitude for a moment without speaking. Sarah flushed and paled and flushed again. "What'd you tell him?" at last de manded the old lady, with an accent of fine scorn. She was very proud of Sarah's conquest. She knew all about young Morison, and was well aware how highly he was esteemed. 1 "Oh he say it's settled," observed Sarah; "and of course he was only going on, he says, to try me about the factory and the garden and the piano; he says, bless your heart and he wouldn't take a thing belonging to you more'n he'd steal." "Only my girl." said Mrs. Thorpe, grimly. But when Sarah bent to kiss her there was the kind of tenderness in the old woman's embrace that the girl remembered only when she was a little child.---The Independent. Effects of Regular Marching. Dr. Colin, regimental physician in the French army, has published the results of his investigations into the effects of regular marching in disciplined bodies upon soldiers. The regularity of the step causes the indefinite- repitition of a shock of the bones and brain, infinitely more deleterious than an irregular walk, and to this regular repetition of the shock to the same parts of the body is due the peculiar aches, pains and ill nesses of the troops. In a one day's march, he says, this shock is repeated 40,000 times, and often tho strongest men, who can walk the same distauce without difficulty when not in line, suc cumb to the strain in two or three days. Dr. Colin's preventive is a rubber heel in all military boots. This heel has been tried at his instance in the French in fantry, he says, and the result has been found to be a great relief to the soldiers. The experiments with the rubber heel are still in progress. Boston Tran script. A Nest In a Queer Place. In the picture gallery of Charlton Park, near Malmesbury, England, is a glass case containing the skin and feath era of a big crow. The creature had been caught and nailed to a tree with other vermin, a fate which so many thousands of crows Bhare yearly that there is nothing odd in it. Tho extraor dinary part of the matter is that in the shelter of his wings, where his body was before it decayed, a little wren had built itself an exceedingly little nest. With wonderful dexterity the tiny bird ha 1 contrived to fasten together the wings of his dead enemy, whose body he proposed to utilize. Tho entrance to the nest was where the crow's breast had been, and here tho family of little wrens was reared. The nest was observed, and when its occupauts had flown, away it was carefully removed, and placed in the owner's picture gallery. New York Re corder. Feeding Vanilla Beans to Ileus. A man on Long Island has discovered a way of feeding vanilla beans to his hens so that the eggs are distinctly flavored with vanilla. The hens, more over, are so fertile under this diet that he sends up daily to town twenty-live dozen eggs. These are engaged to the full luyiug capacity of the hens. A vauilla flavored egg at breakfast is the latest caprice of luxury. New York PreM. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Aluminium Is tho best conductor of heat and electricity. Porcelain is being made from asbestos in Paris, France. It is said to be a su perior article. It has been discovered that colors when passing through a prism can bo made to produce sound. It takes eight times the strength to go upstairs than is required to walk the same distance on a level. The theory that diamonds owe their origin to volcanic eruptions receives sup port from eminent scientists. Flammarion, the French astronomer, is of the opinion that before a great while we shall be able to talk with the inhabitants of Mars. Mr. Haly, of the Colombo Museum, has discovered that carbolized oil is one of the best preservatives of the colors of fish and other animal specimens. Equal parts of ammonia and turpen tine will take paint out of clothing if it be bard and dry. Saturate the spots as often ai necessary and wash out in sopp suds. A quarry of natural cement stone has been discovered in the Province of Natal, South Africa. Near by are extensive coal deposits, which supply the fuel to burn the stone. On a farm in the suburbs of Provi dence, R. I., there has been located what is claimed to be one of the largost and richest veins of granite east of the Black Hills, if not in the entire country. Tho British Museum has discovered that the two alleged etruscan antiquities which it recently purchased at an enor mously high figuro are mere Italian "fakes," and are absolutely worthless. A Paris electrician has suceedi d by means of his battery in forcing violets. It took four hours to grow his first batch. The bunch was plucked, tied with a rib bon and sent to the ex-Empress Eugenie. Lick Observatory in California has just been notified by telegraph of the new discovery of a new star near Chi Aurigae. It is of the fifth magnitude and there fore easily visible to the naked eye. It has a specturm with bright lines. Dried sulphate of copper in soap has valuable antiseptic and healing proper ties, almost entirely neutralizing by its use the ordinary dangers of physicians, nurses and any persons who are exposed to blood poison through cuts or scratches. In the coming Crvstpl -Palace Electri cal Exhibition Y ..-don, England, upon the paymerr small fee, persons will be able to,' ...a- through the tele phone to the music performed at theatres in London, Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool. It is said that a syndicato of Swiss and English capitalists have been formed to utilize a part of the falls of the Rhine at Lauffonburg for the generation of elec tric energy. Tho water will be led to turbine wheels and 7000 horse power will be developed. A meteor which fell in Alabamn plowed up a furrow about as large as a Hour batrel and three or four feet deep, then bounded and struck a large pine tree six feet from the ground, shivering the tree. It then exploded, scattering its fragments in every direction, cut ting down small growth and tearing up the ground. Carl Lumholtz is now exploring the natural history and archeology of the Sierra Madre in Northwestern Mexico. Among the birds of the Sierra Madre is the great woodpecker which is twenty one inches long, and is therefore the largest woodpecker known. It goes in pairs, and cannot bo killed except by ihe rifle. These birds will feed for one or two weeks on a single tree, so that in many cases the trees fall down. Birds Gathered His Almond Crop. An almond grower of this locality hit upon a neat device for gathering his erop last fall. His trees bore largely, and this early became kuown to the yellow hammers, a species of the woodpecker tribe of birds, and they had regularly stoied away large quantities of ripe nuts taken from the orchard in the limb of an oak tree near by. Tho astute orchardist watched operations, and at last hit upon a novel nut and labor saving plan, and he lost no time in putting it into execu tion. The limb was sawed from the tree and replaced by a square shaped funnel long enough to nearly reach the ground; a bucket was then set underneath. A genuine robbing game then went merrily on. The birds gathered the nuts, which they dropped into the tuunel and down iuto the bucket below, and as regularly as night came the almond grower would in his turn empty it of its contents and set it back for a new supply. This was kept up until the entire crop had been guthered, and the yellowhammera had departed broken hearted at the heartless deception practised upon them. Sutter City Enterprise, Boss and Butterfly. I was fishing for boss one day in a quiet pool on Elkhorn Creek, near Frankfort, Ky., on the outer rim of what is known as Gault's Bend, writes a correspondent. A few yards above where I was stauding, knee-deep in the water, was a broad shal low, where the current rippled" over sunken and about exposed rocks before subsiding in the deeper' waters of the pool. As I drew my bait temptingly across the pool in search of a hungry bass, I noticed a yellow butterfly wing ing its zig- zag flight across the shallow mentioned, and closo to the surface of tho water. When half way across, a bass, probably not over a quarter pound weight, suddenly leaped from the water, struck the butterfly with uuerring aim, and fell back with a splash in the shal lows. The butterfly was hit hard, as it fell dead or stunned in the stream about three fuel from where the bass had in tercepted its flight, but unfortunately the little gludiator, failed to recover his prize, as it floated undisturbed down into the pool below. Forest aud Stream. A TUUPENTINE ORCHARD. OBTAINING A VALUABLE SAP VS SOUTHERN PINE WOODS. Cutting "Boxes" in the Trees to Hold the Flowing Sap "Dlppor" at AVork From Forest to Still. IN an account of tho turpentine in dustry at Purvis, Miss., a writer for tho Picayuno says: A turpentine orchard may comprise any number ot acres of pine timbered land, but those of any magnitude contain from 10,000 to 15,000 acres. This, however, does not lie all together, some being close at hand, and other tracts as far out as twenty miles. For convenience sake, this orchard is divided into "crops," consisting of 160 acres of land, or about 10,500 turpentine "boxes." The first step in opening up an orchard of this kind is the cutting of boxes, which it begun about tho middle or last of December, and each year afterward new boxes or new timber are cut, in or der to keep up the acreage of the boxes as the old ones gives out. These boxes are made by a slice, as it were, being taking out of the tree near the ground, leaving a pocket cut into tne troe to ward the heart. Later on, another sot of axmen come and cut a small chip out of each corner of tho box, in order to give it roundness and enable it to hold the flowing sap. This process is called "cornering boxes." The boxes now' measure fourteen inches wide, seven inches deep and four inches across. Generally only one box is cut to a tree, but if the tree is large more are put on. The laborers are paid one and one-half cents per box for cutting them. A tallyman goes out into the woods with a crowd, and as each man cuts a box ho calls out his number, which is recorded. About the middle of March, when tho owner thinks the weather is warm enough to cause the sap to flow, he sends out the "chippers." To each man is assigned a crop of boxes, which he is expected to chip over once a week. If he is a good workman, he can perform the task in three days, but it is safo to say the average band takes the full limit of time and more. Commencing from the edgo and center of the box, the tree is scarified in V-shaped abrasures, with an instru ment called a "hacker," which is an open, semi-circular piece of sharpened steel attached to a short handle. On the end of this is fastened an iron ball, which gives impetus to tho stroke made by the workman. Once a week ono of tbeso "streaks," as they are called, must be put on each side ol the center line of the box on the sido of the tree, in order to keep the sap constantly flowing. Of course, as each new streak is put on, the arch will mouut higher and higher, and in two or three years will reach such an altitude that the tree has to bo abandoned. Formerly, when turpentine was highci in price, the tree was scarified to a much greater height than now, the workmen mounting ladders in order to reach tho desired altitude. Sometimes, when round timber is scarce, back-boxing is resorted to which consists of going over the same trees that have been worked, and put ting in ono or two extra boxes to tho tree. This policy is prolitablo in round timber, but, ut tho same time, it injures and weakens the tree, many being blown down by tho wind. When the fourth streak is put on tho tree, which is four weeks after tho clap ping commences, sutlicient crude, or sap, Las run into the box to enable tho "dippers" to start to work. "Dipping" can be done by wotnoa and children, as it is comparatively light. Sometimes whole families work together, being given as many crops to dip out as they c:in undertake. The instrument by which the work is effectcl is a flat, heart shaped piece oi steel, attached to a loug handle. The workmin places this pad dle into the box, and wit l a peculiar twist of the wrist brings out the con tents, which he places iuto a bucket. The full buckets are emptied into tlie barrels, which hold 4S0 pounds of cruiio each. A child can dip from one to two, and an adult from three to five barrels per day, getting thirty ceuts per barrel for the work. When a sufH'iiunt num ber of barrels are filled the driver camcs with a wagou, takes the n up and hauls them to the still. The work ot hauliug is very severe, necessitating tho use of the stoutest mules ami heaviest wagons. Three wagons, pulled ly twe'.vo mules, uro kept constantly going, consequently requiring a large number of livestock. Tli'J teams thus hauling bring in from thirty to lifty barrels of crulo turpentine per day. The still rims from one to three 'charges' per day, requiring eighteen barrels of crude to tho charge. From eich "charge" is distilled from two aud a half to three aud a half barrels of spirits of turpentine, aeorJing t tho newness of the trees in haviug been bled. Tho balance of the "charge" consists of rosin aud chips. The first yeur's blead iug of the tree yield what is called "vir gin dip," which contains a larger per centage of turpentine than tho dipof any succeeding year. Tho rosiu which is made from this is also of a liner quality. As each year passes, tho percentage of turpentine and grade of rosin deteriorate. In the fall of tho year the accumula tion on the side of the tree is scraped olf and distilled, but it yields a small per centage aud a poor gralo of rosin. The rosiu is inspected and classed by men whom the purchasars feud out, the dif ferent grades bringing from if I to j.'J per barrel ot 380 pouu.ls. 1 bavo sometimes seen over a Ihousaud barrets standing ou the yard, filled with tho hard, brittle amber substance. Undoubtedly much of the "imported English" rosiu comes from tho orchards of Mississippi aud Alabamu, aud has never beeu withiu sight of the sea. The net profits of the Harvard College football team last year were something over ten thousand dollars. The average amount of steel rails inadu in this country last year was over l')0, (JU0 too per month. THE OLD SPINET. Within an upper room it stands, A garret corner grim and gray Where spiders spin their silken strand Molested by no sunlight ray. Yet dames and damsels, I dare say, Have loved its music; to and fro Their lily hands were wont to stray On that old spinet, years ago. I often fancy ghostly bands j A stately minuet essay At dead of night, while unseen hands Their long-forgotten skill display. The little children where are theyt For many must have danced, I know, . To measures fanciful and gay From that old spinet, years ago- w. Borne cavalier of other lands 1 To it once sang his roundelay, Regardless of the reprimands Of her whose heart he longed to sway; Or some despairing genius may Have made it sharer of his woe, ' And bowed his weary head to pray Oe'r that old spinet, years ago. Behold it still resist decay; j There's music in it still, although ' The hands are dust that used to play On that old spinet, years ago. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Sometimes it pays to walk. Ohio has a tramp who is worth $300,000. Wash ington Post. Some people talk about turning things over in their minds as if their heads were hollow. Galveston News. The brilliant mischief of one's own children is outright crime in the children of the neighbors. Galveston News. Perhaps it is too much to expect that the man who usos big words should fur nish big ideas along with them. Somor villo Journal. "Your bill," said tho tailor, "is over due." "That's bad Euglisb," replied tho customor, "you Bhould say over dun." New York Bun. "Were you ever in a dissecting room. Dickey?" "No, butl'vo seen our friend Splitthumb after he's been playing foot ball." St. Joseph News. Gentlemen about to be hanged will bo pleased to learn, on expert medical au thority, that a discolation of tho neck ia not fatal. Chicago News. New York and Chicago should each build a tower so high as to unable thorn' to see when they are making faces at each other. Courier-Journal. A woman is never known to advertise for the return of stolen property "and no questions asked." She would ask questions or die Texas Sittings. "Did her father kick you out?" "No; he missed me, lost his balance, fell on his face,and I carried him iuto tho house and was forgiven." Harper's Bazar. "What though I love the ground she treads, 'Tis valueless to me; For I have found the man she weds, Must pay the mortgagee. -Truth. When you borrcw money you borrow trouble, but at the same time you some times increase the troubles of the fellow who lends it to you. Somervillo? Journal. Jeweler "I tell you pawnbroking is an obnoxious business. " Friend' 'Per haps, but you cannot deny that it hu some redeeming features." Jeweler's Circular. Bilkins "How do do? Had the grip yet?" Wilkins "No." Bilkins "I'm sorry for you, old fellow. What on earth do you talk about when you meet people?" Judge "If I lot you off this time will you promise not to como back hero again?" Prisoner "Yes, sir. The fact is I didn't como voluntarily this time." Boston Post. Station Agent in Africa (on the train) "Great Scott! where is the conductor 1 I don't see him." Engineer "Tho first class passengers got hungry and ate him up." Texas Sittings. Miss Von Gimp "I wouldn't marry the best man living." Dr. Perkins No ah er perhaps not, but er that is reallv no obstacle to your marriugo with me." St. Paul Globe. Ono reason why tho children thirty years ago were so much better behaved than those of to-day is that tho peoplo who tell about it were children thirty yeurs ago. Atchison Globe. . Young Officer of Hussurs (in the park) "I apologize, madam, forpassing you just now without salutation, but you look so charming to-day that I positively did not recognize you !" Fliegeude lllaetter. Tho latest problem Dr. William A. Hammond takes up for discussion is, "Have we two braius?" Ho could com fort some folks immensely by proviug fifty per cent, of it. Philadelphia Ledger. Mrs. Gofrequeut "How quickly your husband has climbed to success in his busi- ncss." Mrs. Heelus Tuto "Yes. Ha had to climb. I've often heard him say he got it ou the ground floor." Chicago Tribune. "You have tho toothache, dear? That is too bad. What caused it?" "I think," answered tho Philadelphia maiden, "that it camo from leaving my gums at homo wheu I weut down town." Iudiauapolis Journal. Bjoues "I want you to subscribe, something toward sending an expedition to discover the North Polo." lijuuks 'Not much! But ! suppose I shall have to subscribe somethiug toward sendiug out tho rescuing party." Somcrvilla Journal. To much has been said iu dispraise of the piano. Now, a piano is not tha nuisance it has been charged with being.. Just lock it up aud throw away the key,1 aud it will be found as iuuoceut as tho campaign utterances of a professional1 politician a mouth after election. Bos ton Transcript. Tno underground electric railway iu Loudon, Kuglaud, has more traffic thau it cau conveniently manage, aud great, complaint is made ou account ot the inadequate facilities.
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