THE FOREST REPUBLICAN RATIS OF ADVERTISINOl ' One Bqnare, one inoh, on inm-tfaa. .9 t' On Hquare, on iuch, one month..., Una Pqu.ro, one inch, three month!. . W On. Square, one Inch. cm. year ...... JO (W 1 wo ISqunr 009 ynr 1609 Quarter Column, on. year W 00 Half Column, on. year 00 00 Una Column, on. ;w, WW Legal adTertiseraaats ten eenta par tkM each insertion. Marriage and death nottoe gracta. All bill, for yearly advertisement eoD4 quarterly. Temporary advertisement SB be paid In advanoe. i Job work oaah on delivery. Is pablMes rrtry Weaawaay, y J. K. WENK. Mnln Swaajbaugh & Co.'i Wnlldliig Ul milKT, TIOHBTTa, Term., ... u prTur. Forest Republican. OnrTmpoiKKne ollelta fr. a hiu f th. VOL. XXV, NO. 40. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1893. S1.50 PER ANNUM. Bowling hm becomo a fashionable menus of physical exercise. I Six tobacco plantations within the Berlin city limits yielded 1300 pounds of tobacco In 1803. The people of California want to elect their United States Senators by popuUr vote. Thny said so at the recent election by 1 74,000 majority. I The presont French Republic has spent two hundred million dollars in improv ing tho waterways of the country, which roach a total length of 7456 miles. All these canals are free i . ... I The Toronto Globo makes tho sugges tion that, in view of tho approach ol cholera, tho milkmen should resolve to boil tho wator with which they propose to adultcrato thoir milk this year. I - ' Wideawake littlo Japan is having; an English firm build her a cruiser that may torn out the fastest afloat, that Is capa ble of nearly twenty-three knots. Bhe will be oallcd tho Toshino, and bo of 4150 ton. ' There are now 670 Oaages and they bave to thoir credit in tho United mates Treasury about $10,000,000,own 1,500, 000 acres of excellent land and do not owe a cent. Their iccomo per capita Is fifty-five dollars per quarter. I From 1500 to 2000 Americans are studying in Paris. The majority of these are studying painting; some few, architecture or'sculpturo; somo singing, while still others are taking what Publio Opinion calls "this wise method" of learning French. r - . j i u ' The growth of Denver, Col., has been phenomenal. The appraised value in 1886 was $33,156,515. In 1802 it was over 174,000,000. Its output of manu facturing industries for the yoai 1892 was nearly $50,000,000, and tho trans actions in real estate exceeded $40,000, 000. Rome is losing its aucient charm Tory rapidly as modern buildings spring up and many monuments are boing restored or clearei away altogether. The famous Bridge of St. Angclo is under repair, and is replaced by an ugly iron viaduct. A society for the preservation of ancient monuments is sorely wantel in the Eter nal City to check the zeal of her mu nicif ality for modern improvements. i . The wholo number of the victims of lynching for the pant year was 266, of whom 221 were men and five women. This increase was disproportionate to the incroose in population, the number for 1891 having been 195, or forty-one less. ''The preponderance of colored victim?," re narks tho Chicago Tribuue, "was not ss large as might be supposed, though it was quite largo onougb. Of the wholo number 156 were colored and eighty white." According to tho Textile Manufactur ing World, 272 new mills employing aome 31,500 persons, were added in 1892 to the number of textile mills in the country. Of these seventy-three were cotton, forty-nine woolen, ninety three knitting and twenty-one silk mills, leaving thirty-six distributed among other branches, In cotton Massachu setts leads with nineteen new mills, North Carolina follows with sixteen and South Carolina stands third with eleven. Illinois and Indiana boast of only one each. In woolen, also, Massachusetts leads with eight new mills, Maiue follows with seven and Pennsylvania with six. But Maine stands first and Pennsylvania second in number of bands employe J. In knitting Pennsylvania leads with thirty-two mills, and New York follows with twenty. The most of these estab lishments are small, aud are engaged in producing seamless cotton hosiery. Dr. Nansen's late lecture before the British Geographical Society bristled with ingenious devices for passing away the time during which he expects to be ice-bound and to drift with the floes to ward the much-sought pole. So many of these devices are dependont on the supply of electric current that henceforth do well-equipped Arctic expedition will be considered complete without its dynamo. It is easy to imagine how cheering will be the effect of the electric light on those whose perilous task will subject them for some mouths to almost total darkness. Dr. Nansen's proposed method of generating electricity is at all events original, although somewhat de ficient in the quality of reliability. lie proposes to have a windmill ou deck to drive the dynamo, and when the wind falls to lot his meu take turn about at a "walk-mill," in order toIord them such salutary eercisa as might be in volved in heaving imaginary anchors. If this method of generating curreut should prove effective it is but naturul to be lieve that it will hasten the general adaptation of treadmills iu prison to the generation of electricity. Ho MB, The prince rides no to the palace gate And bis eyas with taars are dim, For he think, of the beggar maiden sweet Who never may We I with hire. For home Is where the heart Is, In dwelling great or small, An I there', many a splendid palace That's never a bom. at all. Th. yeoman come to his little cot With a aong when day Is done. For his dearie I standing in the door And fall children to meet him run. For home is where the heart is, In dwelling great or small, And there's many a stately mansion That's never a ho ne at all. Could I but live with my own sweetheart In a but with sanded floor, I'd be richer far than a lovelew man With fame and a golden store. For home is where the heart is, In dwelling great or small. And a cottage lighted by lovelight Is the dearest bom. of all. Oeorg Horton, in Chicago Herald. TERRIBLY ACCUSED. BY T. C. ntRBACOIT. IIRKEE more pies went last night, This is cotting little provoking." and Aunt Jessamine sat down and looked at Jack who was mending some bar ness in one corner of the room. "Bears I" said Jack, without took ing up. "I tell vou. mother th M varmints are gittin' J too numerous for ,.. ' . ' - me, and we'll have to lock the larder o' nights if we want to keep things in safety there." "It ain't bears not of the kind that walk on four legs," determinedly replied Aunt Jessamine. "I tell you, Jack, it's the other kind, and, while I name no one, 1 believe I could, if I would, tell yon where the pies go." "Don't be suspicious, mother, Fll watch to-morrow night." "Oh, he's not coming back that soon. I heard him say - that he wouldn't be back for a week.". "Then you suspect somo one?" "I do." At that moment .the door opened and Rachel came in, a swett backwoods girl, the belle of the settlement and the fa vorite of all. She stopped at the door ana swep; the room with her blue eyes which finally settled on her mother. whose perturbed countenance seemed to tell her that something was wrong. "What's the matter, mother?" she asked, gently. "Three more pies went last nitrht the three I baked for the preacher who win be cere to-morrow." "I thought some one was in the larder last night, for when I went in a while ago there were crumbs on the floor" "Yea, be ate them there there's ap parent room to believe this. He must have been very hungry." "Bears are cute animals" "Bearsl" and Aunt Jessamine glanced at Jack, about whose lips lurked a smile which she did not seem to catch. "You remember that Billy saw tracks down in the ravine and that .the Wilson girls were chased by a bear in the berry patch last week. I shouldn't be sur. prised it bears had found out jour larder" "I think they have. There, we won't argut this question any longer," and Aunt Jessamine rose and swept out of the room leaving Rachel to look at Juck for an explanation. "Do you know whom she suspicions!" asked Jack, stopping in bis work and fixing his eyes on bis handsome sister. "Mother is of the opinion that Josh ate the pies." In an instant the face of the backwoods beauty colored and she gave utterance to a ory of astonishment. "Impossible, Jack I She can't have such a terrible suspicion. It is nonsense," and then sbo laughed, but presently con tinued' "It is a good joke on Josh, anyhow, but I don't like mother's suspicion. What if it should get abroad " "Which it is quite likely to do unless wc disabuse mother's mind of it. She really believes that Josh, your beau, stole into the outhouse and ate the pies. Strunge to say pies have vanished on the nights of his visits; I have noticed that myself, Ruchie, and, as mother has heard that Josh is a good hand at a feast, you should not blame her so very much." "But he didn't eat them, uo, he never went to the larder, and all this talk about bis eating the pies is unjust." "Of course, it is. I don't believe Josh would do that, but the pies liave vanished; you will admit this. Mother is convinced that he is the deprecator and and " Rachel, unable to control herself, had fled from the room and Jack went back to bis task. "It's queer," he said to himself. "Don't I know that Josh likes pies, es pecially pumpkin pies like mother bakes, and there is just the slightest doubt in my mind that he didn't come back after he bade Rachie good-night and tackled the one in the larder." Meauwbile Rachel Palmer was walk ing across the meadow toward the raviue that ran through the farm some distance from the house. It was a rich autumn day and the sun was painting the west with his most glowing colors. She was still indignant, and now and then her white bauds shut, and her eyes filled with a look whioh told the feeling tugging at her heart. She made her way down the ravine till she cume to a creek, the banks of which were oluyey and soft. "Hero they are, just 4vhere I taw them a week ago," she said uloud, as she stopped aud looked at certain impres sions in the Yielding irrouud. "Thev are bear tracks, hut they wouldu't tell 2 mother anything in hef present state of mind. Bears visit larders and play havoc there, and a feast of pumpkin pies would tempt them. But I'll write Josh not to come to see mo till 1 send for him, for I don't want him to meet mother very soon." Rachel did that that very day. In the solitude of her little chamber she wrote a letter to her sweetheart, telling him that he might postpone his regular visit for a fortnight, and ended by saying that she would explain all when they mot again. This letter she entrusted to her brother Jock, who went to town es pecially to post it, and Kicbel felt that slie had done her duty. In anticipation of the traveling par son's visit, more pies were baked and closely guarded. When the parson came they were set before him, and received the praise they so well deserved. . "You never have trouble with your pies, Mrs. Palmor," said the shepherd of the backwoods flock, as he helped him self to a second piece. "Yes, but we have, Brothor Linton. We miss them from the larder before we are ready to eat them. I regret to say that we have some unregenerate people in this neighborhood who are so fond of pumpkin pies that they are not particu lar where they find them when they are hungry," and Aunt Jessamine glanced at Rachel, who blushed, and for a mo ment hung her head. "I would like to have these people come under the droppings of the sanctu ary," replied the parson ; but the next moment bo was surprised at Rachel s re marks. "You would want a gun to deal with them, I'm thinking," said the resolute girl. "You can't convert a bear with soft words and" "Rachie, Rachie, what are you aay- ingt" broke in Aunt Jessamine. Accustomed to obey her mother, the fair girl subsided and in a little while had passed from the house, leaving the parson ana nis Host to continue the sub ject they were on. Night seemed to come soon after that meal. The long, soft autumn shadows stole over the farm house and Rachel lighted thelamp and carried it to the sitting room where the parson was dis cussing the needs of his flock. As for Rachel, she retired to her room n the gable and sat at the window. Across the clearing in front of the bouse lay the shadows of night; but by and bye the silvery disk of the moon ap peared over ttie nonzon s rim. it was a beautiful sight and one which she had seen a hundred times from that very window, and now she watched it as it seemed to grow in "beauty and the whole earth became a bed of silver in the light of the moon. All at once there appeared on the ground toward the ravine something that came forward, and Rachel watched it as it grew larger. Now and then it stopped and for some time stood In outline for her inspection, and the more she watched it, the surer she became that it was an animal. Presently Rachel Palmer sprang up, and leaning on the sill, gazed at the ob ject with eyes that seemed to start from her head. "It is a bear," she exclaimed. "What it it is mother's thief!" And as the thing moved on, showing the hugh hulk of its long body, the girl ran to a corner and took from it a rifle, which she knew how to handle with deadly effect. When she came back to the window the bear was gone, and for a moment a feeling of disappointment took possession of her, and she feared she had missed her opportunity. But suddenly the animal came into view again, and this time in the vicinity ot the spring-house, where the larder was. Rachel looked to the priming of the gun and again the bear vanished. She was now almost certain the prowler in tended a raid, an eager to encounter nun and bring bis schemes to naught. she slipped downstairs and out into the night. As she passed from the house she could hear the voice of Parson Linton in conversation in the littlo parlor, and thought ot Jack, who was paying his nightly visit to town three miles away. I be backwoods beauty stopped near the spring-house and watched it with anxious eyes. The door was reached by a descent of several steps, and it was common to fasten it with a chain, which could be unloosed without much trouble. "Why, the door is open I" exclaimed Rachel as she neared the spring-house aud ventured to look down the steps. I slipped lue chain over the staple with my own bands; but it is oil now." The next moment a noise startled Rachel and she fell back a pace, for it seemed to come from the spring-house. Posting herself, however, with de termined fane, she waited for other proof hat the larder was being attacked at that moment, and it was not loug de layed. All at once the huge, dark figure of something came out of the spring-house and as it rose in front of the girl, sbe felt an involuntary thrill, for it was a bear and he was standing on his hinder feet as if masquerading as a man. In all her life she had never seen a bear of such proportions. He looked as tall as Jack, and as he tottered up the steps and the next moment stood in the moonlight a splendid target lor Rachel's rifle, he was seen to have a face ludic- ously daubed with the sweets of the spring-house. Rachel summoned her nerve to her as sistance and leveled the ride at the in vader. At that moment she beard a door be- tiud her open, aud her mother's voice rang out: "Rachie, Rachie, where are you?" The answer was the clear, ringing re port of the family rifle, aud there tot tered from th. fair girlau animal, which dropped upon all fours, only to fall to the ground aud roll over in his agony. Mrs. Palmer stood spell-bound iu the door, aud behind her was visible the wliite face of the parson. "The other guul quick, mother 1 the bear will get away I" cried Rachel, rush ing toward the houte. 'The bear! the bearl ITcaveo help us all 1" and Parson Linton discovered that he was safer inside than at tho door, and he rushed back to be pawed by Rachel, who snatchod Jack's rifle from its pegs and turned again toward the yard. As she crossed the threshold she saw tho black form of the bear lumbering off toward the ravine, and taking deliberate aim, she sent a bullet after him which checked his career and stretched him on the leaves dead. "There I I guess you're satisfied now, mother?" said llachol. when the, larder "had been examine! and tho remains of two pies had been found on the floor. "You must recollect that bears as well as men can tell good baking when they see it. I think you ought to apologize to Josh." "But I namod no names," persisted Mrs. Palmer. "I didn't say that Josh ate the pics; but to tell the truth, Rachie, I didn't know who else would do it." Three days later when the tall, hand some figure of Josh came over the clear ing it was met at the gate by Rtchel, and the two came into the house together. "I guess it's got to be done!" said Aunt Jessamine, as she watched the couple. "There'll be a wedding here before he goes back, and to please Rachie I'll apologize." And when Josh had shaken hands with Aunt Jessamine, she looked up to his honest face and saidrT- "I beg your pardon, Mr. Johnson, thought you ate the pies, but I was mis taken; it was the other bearl" Yankee Blade. .A Feathered Winter Friend. A writer in the Contributors' Club in the February Atlantic writes pleasantly of the chickadee as a winter friend : Set forth a feast of suet on the window sill, and he will need no bid ding to come and partake of it. How daintily he helps himself to the tiniest morsels, never cramming his bill with gross mouthtuls as do his comrades at the board, the nuthatch and the downy woodpecker I They, like unbidden guests, doubtful of welcome or of suffer, ance, even, make the most of time that may prove all too brief, and gorge themselves as greedily as hungry tramps; while he, unscared by your face at the window, tarries at his repast, pecking his crumbs with leisurely satisfaction. You half expect to see him swept from your sight like a thistle-down by the gusty blast, but he holds bravely to his perch, unruffled in spirit if not in feathers, and defies his fierce assailant with his oft-repeated challenge. As often as you spread the simple feast for him he will come and sit at your board, a confiding guest, well assured of welcome, and will ropay you with an example of cheerful life in the midst of dreariness and desolation. In the still, bright days, his cheery voice rings through the frosty air, and when the thick veil of the snow falls in a wavering slant from the low sky its muffled cadence still heartens you. What an intense spark of vitality must it be that warms such a mite in such an immensity of cold; that floats his little life in this deluge of frigid air, and keeps him in song while we are dumb with shivering t If our huge hulks were endowed with proportionate vitality, bow easily we might solve the mysteries of the frozen north t The Tuneful Harp. Harp playing is again in vogue. Fash, ionable young women are hanging their banjoes on the willow tree; they are tak ing lessons in harp manipulation. The light airs of the instrument so long held sacred are forgotten in the deeper and more dignified notes of the barp. We suspect that the decorative qualities of the barp have considerable to do with this revival of that ancient instrument. A harp is a pretty thing. A curiously carved cabinet from Venice or an oddly fasnioned table from France cannot be more effective in a drawing room. The barp has a noble ancestry. Skill in bringing forth music from its chords won praise and honor in the day of King David. Kings and Queens bave enjoyed its music through hundreds of years. Its addition to the orchestra, however, does not date back many years. A Chicago musician has made a study of the instru ment, and he says its possibilities are not yet fully understood; that the semitones of the harp can be regulated with a nicety heretofore unkuown. No doubt Tannhauser and Orpheus would not recognize the barp if they were to see it, with the Chicago modifi cations, standing in a white and gold parlor aud responding to the graceful touch of a Michigan avenue belle's slen der lingers. Indianapolis News. Novel Deooratiou lor a Boom. A novel plan for the decoration of an invalid's room has been successfully car ried out in a house in New York City. The upper floor, which was not par titioned off into rooms or finished with a plaster ceiling, is fitted up to resemble the upper deck of a river steamboat. Some round holes are placed in a slight curve a short distance from the front and back windows, aud these uprights support horizontal rods on which cur tains are bung, by rings, allowing light or securing darkness, according to the mood of the invalid. On the walls are window suggesting frames or light oak, and the wall is painted to suggest wood work. The wooden rafters overhead are painted in gray and blue, soft blue mellowed with yellow ochre, and Indian red, and "flatted" with a little, very little, zinc whiu), not white lead. In the oakeu frames, pictures with a largo pro portion of sky are fitted, aud are chauged four times a year. Iu deep win ter the pictures are of South American scenery; in spiing, they are all Iliau landscapes; iu summer, cool Canada views, painted from nature, suggest the pleasures of travel to the helpless iuvalld ; and autumn brings California's luxuriuut vegetation on canvas, to brighten the sick room. Dewoiest's Magaxiue. fcCIENTiriC AND INDUSTRIAL. Aluminum horseshoes are now made for record breakers. If sneezing be induced it will stop a disagreeable hiccough. Somo of the stars move with a velocity of nearly fifty miles a second. Flash light pictures of dinner psrtios ure quite in order all along the line. The weight required to crush a square inch of brick varies from 1200 to 4500 pounds. Place 600 earths like ours side by side and Saturn's outermost ring could easily inclose them. No living germ of disease can resist tho antispeptic power of essence of cin namon for more than a few hours. The spectroscope has demonstrated that all the so called fixed stars are iu motion some in one direction, some in another. Electricity is being applied to the dry ing of tea in Ceylon, the process having proved more economical than the old method. Newton, in his day. believed that the earth was gradually becoming dry, and later scientists have recently confirmed the opinion. Dr. W. A. Wells has written to the London Lancet about a new source of lead poisoning, the manufacture, clean ing andrecoating of the plates of storage batteries. Physicians bave at last decided that the small too of the human foot must go that civilization pradnally tends to crowd it out of existence, and to depend more than ever for locomotion on the big toe. 'A valve whose movement is so deli cate as to be under the control of a hy grometer is the Invention of a Chicago man. Any change in the hun'.idity of tho atmosphere alters the opening of the valve. A lasting machine that enables one operator to last 3000 pairs of shoes a week Is one ot the latest things in labor saving machinery. It tackles anything from light feminine foot gear to the heaviest brogans. Incandescent electric lamps, it is said, have been adopted in Madras, India, as an ornament to the heads of the horses driven in harness by the Jaghidar of Ami. Two lamps provided with power ful reflectors, are attached to the harness between the ears of the horses, the lamps being connected to a battery placed in the body of the carriage. The novolty of the arrangement attracts great atten tion. Calculations, based on the observation of the refraction of light, have caused it to be supposed that the air becomes so rare at the height of about sixty miles that the distance may be regarded as the limit to its sensible extent, but other calculations, made during the present century, of the distance from tho earth at which metoors ignite indicate that the atmosphere extends to upward of 100 miles. Eight or ten days before tho appear ance of cholera in Hamburg, Germany, lost summer, all the sparrows and other birds left the town snd suburbs and did not return until the plague had com pletely disappeared. The same thing happened in Marseilles and Toulon iu 1884 a day or two before the cholera visited those towns. Similar migrations have been noticed in different parts of Italy, Austria and Russia, always somo days before the appearance of cholera. Strange Sense of Direction. When living near Neosho Falls, Kan., a neighbor, who was a market bird hunter, went from there to Western Mis souri for the purpose of hunting quails and prairie chickens in the fall of the year, says a writer in Science, no took with him a favorite pointer dog. The route taken was southward some fifty miles to Parsons, Kan., by railroad, thence northeastward to Fort Scott and on into Missouri, nearly due east from the latter point. All went very well for a few days after he begun huntiug, but by some means the dog became lost from him. He spent two days hunting for it, and as it was no use t try to hunt with out the dog, be went home and there found the dog all right. According to the report of his family, the dog had reached there within two days from the time he had lost him, and as the distance was inoro than seventy-five miles, it is quite certain that the dog took a near cut for home. Now, if this dog had no sense of direction, what had he that led him to take what we may confidently believe to be the straight and true course for home, when he had passed over the other two sides of the triangle by rail "f Who does not know that a cat, or even a half-grown kitten, taken a long way from home in a bag, nearly always finds its way back? When living iu Northern Michigan I bad a cat we tired of, I took her in a boat directly across the lake, about two miles, and turned her loose. Although it was about six miles arouud the end of the lake, a circuitous course and certainly one uoknowu to her by sight, the next morniug she was back ut the old place. Another case is just stated to me of cat that was taken by rail fully twenty miles in Southwest Missouri, and the next day he walked in all right at his former home. Making Change by Cutting Coins. Uutil recently, when the practice was forbidden by law, the Mexicans cut their silver coins into pieces for small chauge. The same practice was followed iu the United States early iu the present cen tury, and in Virginia it was customary to make five quarter, out of each dollar by hammering it. out pielirnir.arily to chopping it iuto segments with a hat chet or other instrument. The "reed ing" or currogution on the edges of mod ern coitiS, commonly but incorrectly termed "milling," was originully adopted as a protection against the clipping of metal money, which formerly was a Mniice of prolit to many dishonest per-sous. TIIE DURATION OF LIFE. HOW INSURANCE COMPANIES CLASSIFY OOOUPATIONS. Clergymen Considered an Al Risk The Farmer's Occupation Very Favorable to Liang Lille. T" "T"7"HAT class of people live the longest? Not only is the Y Y question of vital importance to insurance companies; it is also of general interest as everybody wants to know to what extent longevity is effected by different pursuits and oc cupations. Experts maintain that the lowest mortality, among professional men, is enjoyed by clergymen, while the mor tality of schoolmasters is below that of lawyers and still more below that of doctor:. Tbe higher mortality of agri cultural laborers over that of gardeners and farmers is largely due to their great liability to consumption and respiratory or throat disease. The farmer, however, has a higher mortality so far as gout, alcoholism and liver disease are con cerned. As to fishermen, while it is possible that some of them escape both tbe census and death registration, a very low mor tality from diseases of the nervous and respiratory systems and from consump tion, but then they have a high mortal ity from accidents. So far as cabmen, truckmen and barge men are concerned, it does not appear that an open air life in itself is sufficient to insure healthfulness. They have a high mortality from alcoholic diseases, and from accident, lung and throat dis eases. A large proportion of the mor tality of commercial travelers is due to intemperance, which is also the cause of the excessive mortality among brewers, inn keepers and men employed in and about saloons. Grocers do not suffer so much as mer chant tailors from lung and throat dis eases, but somewhat mare from alcohol ism and suicide. The mortality from phthisis among grocers is one of tho lowest, while the mortality of merchant tailors from that cause is ona of tbe highest. The death rate among butchers is de clared to be due largely to excessive indulgence, their mortality from alco holism, livtr and other diseases being almost identical with that of the brow era. The death-rate of bakers and con. fectioners is about the same as that of millers, whose mortality from alcoholism and saicide is very high, but from con sumption is hardly above the averago in spite of their exposure to dust. The occupation of hatters subject them to great changes of temperature and, like hair dressers, they have a high mortality from consumption and tbe effects of al coholism. Journeymen tailors snd shoc mukcrs have a high death-rate from con sumption, diseases of the nervous system, alcoholism and suicide. The high mortality of printers and bookbinders is duo to consumption. Only among persons whose occupations sub jeet them to dust inhalations is the death rate from consumption so high as among printers. Contrary to what might he expected, their mortality from lead poi coning is but slight. Lead poisoning especially produces a high death-rate among plumbers. Cut lers aud filemakcrs iuhulo metallic dust mixed with stone dust. Tho latter are also exposed to lead poisoning on ac count of the use of a cushion of lead on which to strike their files. It is estimated that one in every nine teen males in tbo industrial community, between the ages of twenty-five and sixty-five, is a miner. As the death re turns do not always distinguish between the different kinds of mines, it is impos sible to ascertain separately the inortulity of each kind of miners, but at least one fifth of their total mortality is due to ac cidents. . If accidents were excluded for all miners, their death-rate would be only slightly higher thuu that of farmer?. Medical examiners considor the coun try doctor, ou account of necessary hard ships, a less favorublo risk than the city doctor, and that as to the other profes sions, the general standard of health is about the same in the city as in the coun try, although the lutter undoubtedly offers greater natural advantages for the enjoyment of hculth. It is considered that what tbe city lacks in certain re spects is made up by the more geueral observance of sanitaiy requirements in the matter of dwelliugs, sewage, exer cise, personal cleanliness,- the timely heeding of professional advice, etc. In regard to the effects of occupation on mortality and longevity Dr. Marsh said to a News reporter that the investi gations by snmtturinuH and statisticians showed conclusively that the occupations must unfavorable to life generally were those of miners, workers in gluss and earthenware, publicans and butchers, and the most favorable were those ot the clergy, farmers aud agricultural labor ers. The medical profession did not stand high in tbe general list aud tho mortality was groat in comparisou with that of othor professions. The hard physical work, the exposure to vicissi tudes of weather aud the contagion of disease, tho disturbance of regular hours for sleep aud food, the mental struiu and anxiety were all prolific causes of sick ness or of premature decay. New Yark News. A Remarkable Funeral Pro.-ossiou. Wheu Ts:hing Tschu, the Grand Chamberlain aud brother-iu-law of l'riuee Kung of China, died, he was followed and preceded by a remarkable proces sion. The bier was carried by eighty men, each pair of whum had poles of different lengths under it. Tlice eighty uien were preceded by forty-six tin bearers, eight camels aud twenty four milk-white horses, Behind the pall bearers came 160 men, each beariug their portion of sixteeu ou.( planks. These planks or boards were painted re 1, and over this in yellow letters were the names uud titles of the deceased nobleman. bt. Louis Republic. "BE KIND TO HER. "Be kind to her,beklnd." they said 1 When from their clinging arms I lea My bride in tears and smiles away And yonth and age at parting lay Their hands in blessing on her head. The old elmi with their wealth of May, Tall, grim and nodding seemed to ay, With patriarchal arms outspread, "Be kind to her." A oore of years has overbed Since you and I, dear wife wera wad; A changing scene of gold and gray. But love Is whispering to-day Along the paths we yet shall tread, "Be kind toher.' V. W. Hutt, in New York Herald. HUMOR OF THE DAY. A fixed star The wealthy actor. No man can tell how much it would take to make him rich. Ram's Horn. What the college freshman doesn't know he talks about. Elmira Gazette. A horse, strange to say, feeds best when he hasn't a bit in his mouth. Truth. It doesn't always follow that shaking an acquaintance rattles him. Philadel phia Times. A slay belle One of the King of Da homey's Amazonian warriors. New York Journal. It does seem- a little odd that a good "trusty" grocer rarely succeeds. Cleve land Plain Dealer. Lecturer "What is dearer to a man than his wife?" Bachelor "Her jew elry." Jeweler's Weekly. When an old crank spoils tho slide, the small boy doesn't feel like saying peace to his ashes. Puck. What tbe solar system needs now is a good stringent law for the punishment of vagrancy. Kansas City Star. One of the hardest times to love an enemy is when he seems to be prosper ing like a green bay tree. Rim's Horn. No charge to florists for this advice: If you would have your plants start early put them in spring beds. Lowell Courier. "How can I become a ready conversa tionalist?" "Persuade yourself that you have a chronic disease of some kind." Buffalo Express. "You are beneath my notic?," as the land owner remarked when he found the tramp asleep under his sign "No tres pass iug." Comic Cuts. First Thief "What do you do when you can't pull the wool over a jeweler's eyes?" Second Thief "Throw pepper iu 'em." Jeweler's Weekly. Tommy "Say, paw?" Mr. Figg "Well?" "When a hole in the ground is filled up with dirt what becomes of the hole?" Indianapolis Journal. Jagson says there are two reasons why his servunt girl cannot succeed in this world and they are because she hates to get up and dust. Elmira Gazette. Martin "How well Miss Greenbough keeps her age!" Mrs. Grinder "Why, of course; nothing would induce her to give it away." Chicago Inter Ocean. Roggie "Van Harding has been ex pelled from tho club." Ferdie "Why?" Reggie "Mo was getting too beastly bwainy." New York Herald. Oh, take the telephone away, Its trials greater grow, For all you hear and all you say Is that one word "Hello!" Washington Star. Judge "Have you anything tossy before I pass seutence ou you?" Prisoner "No, I ain't got any time ter waste talkiu' 'ere. I waut ter gol" Pick -Me-Up. A man who is rough and awkward at everything else will show a delicacy and skill greater tliau any woman's when he has to patch a torn ten-dollar bill. Atchison Globe. The Brilliant Spirit of Repartee: She "It is reported around town that we ure engaged." He "I have hoard worse things than that." She "I never have." Life's Calendar. Miss Auu Gulaw "I wish you would tell me how you mana;ro to keep your dresses in such pretty shape." Mis Plumpette "Simply by wearing tbum, desr."--Indiauupulis Journal. "Don't you think," the mother said proudly, "that berplayin; shows a re markable finish ?" "Yes," replied the young mm absently; "but she was a long time getting to it." The Jury. Watts "Did you ever eat any 'pos sum?" Grogau "Oi niver did an' I nivrr will. Oi hov uo use for a baste thut wud dhrop tho O from the name of him as tho 'possum ha?." ludiauapolia Journal. "Mrs. Migg's children look so neg lected, poor things; issheaway?'" "No; she is spending her time writing those beautiful articles, 'How to Make Home Attractive for tho Children.' " Chicago Inter-Ocean. Tuff Muggs "So you cot clear o that larceny charge, eh I Mj-t V had a purty smart lawyer." Birryl Howes "Nuw. Uo was a regular chump. Only charged $25 for clvuriu' me." Indian apolis Journal. Importunate Borrower "But I have a family to support, my dear fellow." Unwilling Victim "All the more reason, my dear fellow, for your uot try ing to hold up all your irieu.li." Kste Field's Washington. "Ullol" said tho messenger hoy. "Aiu't you workiu' no more, kidi" "Naw," said the ex-oili.'eboy, "I aiu't. I'm ou a strike. Der walkiu' deligit came arouud uu' said we wu. to git double price fer lic'.iin' dese new stamps, or go out. Au' I weut out.'" ludiau apolis Journal. Littlo Flory "Would jou miud let ting me put your ring iu the bath tub a few minutes?" Mr. l'ndee "Wnat for?" Little Flory "Sister Madge said last week she knew you' l put your riu$ iu soak to fcl the iI.iwcm you scut her, aud 1 wnuteu to try it nu i see if 1 irould get some." iutei-Ueeau.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers