TEE FOREST REPUBLICAN Is pablHhW every WdwdJ, fry J. E. WF.NK. Offlo la Bmaarbanglt ft Co.'si Vofldlug kji trnxxT, tionzsta, rt Term. ... lUOpwYnr, RATI8 OF ADVERTISING! f On Square one Inch, one insertion. J$ J'' On. (Square, one Inoh, one month... One fiquare, one inch, three months.., 0, One Square, one Inch, one jear J Two Kqusres, one year ' Quarter Column, one year. ...,. tOW Half Column, one year , GO ) One Column, one Tear. J" REST R TJBUCAN. Legal advertisement ten cent each insertion. Marriages and death notloee I . W nkeerhHIms roalTaa to . perlo All bills tor vearlv advertisement (V mre manias. . ti three mnnths. Oonwpondmee Mllclu4 fre a Mrs at th. ntr. Ne n.tlc WtU kt Ulaa iIuiitimii quarterly. Temporary advertussu s I VOL. XXV. NO. 49. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAItCII 29, 1893. S1.50 PER ANNUM. be paid in advance. Job work oaih on delivery. . yowulullni, o EP i rratf. i T tailing Gorman general predict big war in Europe at an early day. Professor Huxley know of no a priori reason "why snake-bodied reptiles fifty feet long and upward should not diaport themselves in our deal as they did in tbose of the cretaceous epoch." A National literature on roads it grad 'uully growing up In this country, and . the Pittiburg Dispatch thinki the sub' jeet should be given a prominent place in public school education in consonance with its great Importance. It is probable, predicts ViMSan Fran cisco Chronicle, that the device for di. . pensing with the services of telegraph operators will bo like the macbino for setting type. Human ingenuity can go a long way, but it cannot furnish brains, and brains aru very essential in telegra phy. According to the Courior-Journal the great scramble for gold is now regarded . in Europe as a sign that European peace it soon to bo broken. Oold is not only being locked up in tho Imperial Treasury of Russia, but in storehouses of other continental Governments, and the feel ing of auxicty on this account is wide spread. A Presidential iuAuguration costs less than au ordinary Congressional funeral. Tho total cost of President Harrison's inauguration was 13520.50. The cost of a funeral varies from $ 3000 to any thing you please, according to the dis tance over which tho Congressional maimers meander and tho greed of local undertakers and livery stable keep ers. This country is now building first class war ships ut loner prices than the war ships of Eugluud are now costing. The Boston Cultivator boasts that we r,muko ships, too, equal to any that English navy yards turu out. Perhaps our methods of shipbuilding have leu red tape arid corruption about them. Our Government is in most point run far less expensively Ibau any monarchy in Europe, and iu the lighter taxation which the people of this country pay it ona of the causes of our greater pros perity." Charles Mohr, of the United States Forestry Buresu, has an article in the Engineering Magazine, which demands the attention of Southern legislators. Be says stupendous as the timber resources of the South appear, it can but bo evi dent to anyone conversant with the facts ' that we have entered already upon an era involving their complete extinction, and be vividly points out tho threatening cal amities that will follow the disappearance of jur forests, not only in the extinction of one of the South' important indus tries, but in the climatic changes that are already, perhaps, beginning to make themselves felt. . , Persons who are inclined to take a gloomy view of pauperism and crime in New York, would do well, suggests the News, of that city, to glance at the of ficial reports of the municipality of Lon don. The two years ending January 1, 1891, the date of the last biennial re port, the cost of maintaing the paupers of London was 2,340,000, the equiva lent of about $11,700,000. During the two years there were 109,748 criminal convictions. Wuilo these figures show that the percentage of crime and pauper ism in London greatly exceeds that of New York, the same report indicates a much lower perccutago of attendance in the public schools. A story from the Pall Mall Gazette was recently priuted iu the New York Tri bune, to the - effect that the great com parative anatomist, Sir Kichard Owen, identified as a pig's thigli-boue an osse ous specimen sent bim for that purpose by Lord John Russell, who afterward so it was stated declared that it came from what purported to be a bear's bam presented by President Buchanan of the Uuited States. The Minneapolis Tri bund, ignoring tho possibility of a sub stitution iu transit, ask: "Did our ante bellum President willfully deceive Lord Johu, was the eminent comparative an atomist, at fault for once, or has the Pall Mall Gazette a talented liar on its staff!" Within the past two years a number of reefs and islands in the Pacitic Ocean, long known to mariners, have disap peared from view, leaving no evidence that they ever existed. No one under stands tho pbeuomenin, unless it ba that here and there the floor of the ocean has subsided with uuusual rapidity, though not with such violeuco as to be betrayed by the agitatiou of the sea. The fact is simply known that these stretches of reef or bits of land, some of them rising from the depths, and all marked on the charts, cau uu longer lie found. One or two war ships, with orders to visit some of these places, havo cruise 1 arouud in great be wilderment, uuaolu to liud the objects of their 4 Jest. The Sunday -School Magazine, of Philadelphia, says that while San Fran cisco has a population of 300,000, its churches will seat only 55,000 people. Oklahoma has just adopted a code of maritime laws. The Atlanta Constitu tion avert that there is not a body of water In the Territory over a foot deep. With a population of 215,000, Mon treal baa a debt of $19,000,000, or $88 per bead. Little wonder, comments the San Francisco Examiner, that Cana dians should be crossing the border. It must be cheaper to move than pay taxes. The St. Louis Republic takes no ttock in the theory of the overproduction of cotton. It says that when the Southern farmers raise all their foodstuff they can not produce too much cotton. But the trouble it that they will not raise all thoir foodstuff for a long time to come. A Denver boarder made disparaging remark about the cooking set before him, and much to his amusement the landlady sued him for $20,000. His merriment died away when the jury brought in a verdict for. $750, and he has put in his time since in wondering what there ever was in the episode to strike him as humorous. Pork is dearer now than it has been in ten years, or since Bismarck began to make war on the American bog. This is doubtless in part due to the opening of European markets to our pork. With better prices for pork beans have also advanced, and the traditional Now Eng land dish of pork and beans has now to be paid for by those who would enjoy it. The - London Graphic has a portrait and sketch of Potara, a Maori ctnniba1, who. is eighty-five years old and still hat a good tet of natural teeth. He has not eaten a white man since 1816. He speaks well of white folks, but for a steady diet prefers a Maori, as the whites, or "Pakehas," have "a salty an 1 bitter flavor." Potara must have a re tentive memory of his tastes. The statement published by the New York Sun of Consul Roosevelt at Brussels that it has been found profitable to ship cargoes of horse meat from this city to Belgium to supply the tablet of the poorer classes may be newt to most New York ers. A good horsesteak is not unpalat able, and though it edibility was dis covered rather late in the day, thousand of working people in Europe are now glad to pay a little over six cents a pound for it. Beef is entirely beyond their means, and so is the varied bill of fare tbat most working people in this favored land enjoy every day. In the opinion of the Chicago Herald "the criminal art gallery is the worst fruit tbat hat been produced by g ifting civilization en barbarism. It is bad enough to have the portrait of a convict ed felon placed on exhibition for all the world to see, even after he shall have expiated his crime by serving bis term of imprisonment. If he should desire to return to honest life the ineffaceable lines of his countenance in the pictures of the rogue' gallery are a standing and damning imputation against him. Either there should be no rogues' gal lery, or every rogue, whether under po lice protection or not, should havo a piace in the spectacular display of por traits." Italy expends every year $96,000,000 for her soldiers, and lets than $4,000,000 for schools. In Spain it costs $100,000, 000 to main the army, and only $1,600, 000 to educate the children; but then, it is the exception to find a Spauish farmer who is able to read or write. Germany boasts of being in the foremost rank among the Nations in the Eulturkampf of the world; yet she expends $185, 000,000 on her army, while $10,000,000 is deemed sufficient for the education of her children. France maintaius an army at an expense of $151,000,000 and sup ports her schools with $21,000,000. The United States expend $115,000,000 for public schools, while the army and navy cost only $54,000,000. Every one that has observed the treat ment of private soldier in European ar mies knows how like cattle they are re garded. Not long ago, relate the Buf falo Courier, a saddle race was arranged between officers of the Austrian and Prussian armies, the course lying from Vienna to Berliu. A number of horses were killed in this trial of endurance. Recently the Austrian Government ha been drilling soldiei in the field, with the thermometer at eighteen below zero, in order to test the relative endurance of the Austrians, Hungariaus,and Poles in tue service. In determining this point to the satisfaction of the Government, 1144 soldiers had their hands or feet badly frozen. These things are not likely to lessen the stream of emigration to America. MORNING OF THE DI3COVHRY. Immortal Morn, all hall, Tbat saw Columbus sail By faith alone. The skies before him bowe l, Back rolled the ocean proud. And every lifting oloud With glory shonel Fair Seienoe then was bora On that celestial morn, Faith dared the sea. Triumphant o'er her foes, Then Truth immortal rose New Heavens to disclose Ani Earth to free I Strong Freedom then came forth To liberate the earth And crown the right. Bo walked the pilot bold Upon the sea ot gold, And darkness backward rolled, And there was light I Sweep, sweep across the seas, Ye rolling jubilees, Grand chorals raise; The world adoring stands, And with uplifted hands Offers from all the lands To God its praise I Ye hosts of Faith, sing on; The victories ye have won Shall time Increase, And like t ,e choral strain Tbat fell on Bethlehem's plain. Inspire the perfect reign Of Love and Peace I H. Butterwortb, in Home and Country. "COUSIN FRED." BY AUY RANDOLPH. T was a stormy twi light in February, the air full of the dreary atmosphere of a newly fallon snow, the huge pine trees of the northern wood? writhing them selves about like giants In extremis, and the Maryville stage bad just come in with two passen ger. Ladies, both of them; one, apparently thirty years old, the other, scarcely sev enteen; and as they sal thore warming themselves by the hotel fire, the landlord touched his wife's shoulder, ana whls peredtober: "FurrinerBl" For there was something in the cnt of their curious fur lined draperies, the shape of their neat crapn hats, the very way in which they unconsciously carried themselves, which was as foreign as the Marseillaise itself, although there was no accent in their voices as they ques tioned wbether any conveyance from Barnet Hill had been sent to meet them. And the landlord was right; for Gene' vieve and Gencvra Bui lace were the daughters of American parentage, born in sunny Franco. Orpbaued and alone, they were coming to America to claim the prot.-ction of a relative of their mothers, "Cousin Fred," as they bad been taught to call bim. "Do you suppose he will be good to us? tienevra, the dimpled seventeen year-older, asked, as she sat with her cheek acainst Genevieve s shoulder. "I hope so, darling," said the elder titter. "No one but a brute could be unkind to you." For little golden haired, rose lipped Genevra was one of those human sun beams who take every heart by storm, and in her deep mourning, she looked even tweeter and more attractive than ber ordinary wont. And dark eyed Genevieve, thirteen years older than her sister, bad long ago uusellishly put aside her own personality ana identified her self entirely with tue household pet ana beauty. "I wonder if he it a cross old crab," pondered Genevra, at she drank the tea brought to ber by the landlady, and basked in the welcome warmth of the blazing logs, "or a whimsical old bachel or, full of caprices. Ob, Genevieve! Don't you dread to meet him?" Genevieve smiled. "Little one," said she, "don't fret. Whatever happens, we shall be together, and" But just then, the landlord came bust ling in. "The doublo sleigh from Barnet Hill, ladies," be said, rubbing his hands. "And Mr. Barnet himself has come." Close on the landlord's words came Mr. Barnet, of Baruet Hill, a tall, band some man of about thirty, with bright brown hair clustering over a noble fore bead, keen black eyes and features clear and perfect as those of tho Apollo Belvi deie. "Are these my cousins?'1 he said, pleasantly. "You are welcome to Bjr net, Genevieve and Genevra." Instinctively, little Genevra put her band to her disheveled curls. Had sho expected to see any one but a wrinkled old sexagenarian, she would have taken more pains with her toilet. But Gene vieve rose and smilingly put her hand into the extended palm of her cousiu. It was a long, snowy drive to Barnet Hill, but Genevra declared, joyously, tbat it was worth it all, when they were ushered into the great, old fashioned drawing room with its blazing cannel coal fires, its yellow satin curtains and the moss-soft carpet on which the- foot fall made no sound. "Do you know," said Cousin Fred, laughing, "that I was expecting to see two little school girls in short frocks aud thick boots?" "And do you know," retorted Geuev ra, "tbat our minds were fully prepared to behold a rheumatic old gentleman with a crutch?" And in fifteen minutes they were on the footing of old friends. But they had scarcely lived six months at Barnet Hill before the inevitable "little cloud like a tnau's baud" arose on their atmosphere. "Genevieve," said Mr. Barnet, rather gravely, one day. "I wish you would warn dear little Gypsy against that Captain Allaire. He's a pleasant, amus ing fellow, I know; but he's scarcely the person I should select for any girl' husband." "Yes, Cousin Fred, I will speak to her," laid Genevieve, sighing softly as the wondered what spell Genevra pos sessed to win all hearts to herself, from stately Cousin Fred to the handsome dashing young captain of artillery. "But have you reasoned with her on the subject?" "Half a dozen times," said Barnet. "But she only laugbt at me." Genevieve was silent. She wondered if popular rumor was correct, and Frederio Barnet really did love little Genevra to hopelessly so dearly. Genevra came home late tbat evening in the rosy sunset, with tcarlet wild- flowers in ber hair. "I have been to the village," the said, "with Captain Allaire."- "Oh, Genevra I" pleaded the elder sis tor. "When Fied thinks" "I don't care what Fred thinks," in terrupted the beauty, with a toss of her head. "Listen, Genevieve, I have a secret to tell you; I was married to Captain Al laire this afternoon? ' "Married?"' echoed Genevieve. "Oh, Genevra I" "Look at my wedding ring," said the wild little gypsy, holding up her pretty, taper finger. "Yes, married really and actually married I I am Mrs. Allaire now,'' with an amusing assumption of matronly dignity. "But Cousin Fred" "Cousin Fred may help himself if he can," said Genevra, audaciously. "Per haps yon don't know, Jenny, that Cousin Fred himself means to be married very toon. Genevieve turned pale. "Genevral" cried she. "You can't mean that?" "Poor little Genevieve 1" consoled Genevra. "But you will not lose your home. You must come and live with me and Charley."' "I could not do that," said Genevieve, giddy and confused with the unexpected succession of startling news, "I I must look out for a situation in some school or as companion or nursery gov erness I But oh, Genevra, are you quite sure about Fred?" "I heard the old housekeeper talking to the coachman, when I was waiting, down behind the shrubbery, for Captain Allaire to come," said Genevra, with a nod of her pretty head. "She laid he had told her himsell and bad instructed ber what rooms to prepare and what al terations to make in the household ar rangements, for his coming marriage." "I wonder who it can be," said Gene vieve, sadly. "Miss Hilyard, of course," said Gen evra, "or else tbat beautiful Mrs. St, Dean. Bat the least thing he could have done was to have confided in us, I think, and that's one reason I decided to elope. And Charley is coming up this evening, and we are to tako the train to St. Vincent, and, oh, dear Jenny," with a burst of sparkling tears, "the world is so full ot. happiness to raet" And Genevieve could but caress the beautiful, willful young creature who had taken life a helm so recklessly into her bands, and hope, in a choking voice, that she might be very, very happy. Cousin Fred listened very philosophic ally to Genevra's confession, half an hour later. "Married, are you?" said he. "Well, if you had asked my advice, I should have given a contray verdict. But, as you didn't consult me, why, I shall have to be like the 'heavy fathers' on the stage and give you myjilessinir. Allaire is a clever fellow enough, although he has been very gay, and I hope you will steady bim down, at last." 80, the newly married pair went away, as thoughtlessly happy as two school children out for a picnic, and Genevieve was left atone with Fred, to wonder how she could best break to bim the resolu tion at which she had arrived. For she knew tha she could never remain at the Hill when beautiful Mrs. St. Dean or Alicia Hilyard should either of them be the mistress there. "It would kill me," she thought, clasping ber hands. "Yes, it would kill me I" Mr. Barnet bad turned kindly to her. and led ber to a seat beside the win dow. "You are pale, Genevieve," be said. "Your hands are as cold as ice. Surely, you do not take this mad freak of little Gypsy's to bitterly to heart? Never fear for ber; she's a butterfly who will sip honey from all life's garden ground. Her nature is light and Irothy; far dif ferent, Genevieve, from yours. Sit down, little cousin; I hate much to say to you." "Now," thought poor Genevieve, with her color changiug from scarlet to white "now it is coming I I shall be politely dismissed from the only home I have!" And a sensation of indescribable lone liness passed through her heurt as she pictured Genevra radiantly happy with her captain of artillery, Cousin Fred secure in the love of soma stately and beautiful woman, herself only left out iu the cold of life's dreariest vale, an un loved and solitary old maid. But she spoke nothing of all these sickening fears; only looked at him, with wistful dark eyes, in silence. "Gonevieve," said he, "do you think it would be a wild and foolish dream for me to think of marriage?'' "You? Oh, no," she answered, try ing to smile. "But 1 am three and thirty." "You are only in the prime and full ness of life," she responded "for a man. With women," sighing softly, "everything is so different. But, Cousin Fred, if you really intend marry ing "I really do," he said, smiling gravely. "Then I shall not bo longer in your way," she said valiantly. "1 will leave Baruet Hill at once." "But t hit's just what I don't waut you to do, Uenevieve," be said, with ber hand still closely held in his. "Dear, solemn little woman, It it possible that you don t comprehend what I mean?" "you think," with a startled look, "that I can be useful about the bouse?" "Must I say it In to many words, Genevieve," ho asked. "Shall I go lown 00 my knees, like the horoes of romance, and say : 'Sweetheart, will you be my wife?' " Genevieve started to ber feet In a panic. "Do you really mean mcl" cried Gen evieve. "I really mean you," he said, reso lutely, holding her fast, when she would have flown from him. "Little girl, then you never have suspected how dearly I love you I" And Genevieve, clasping both hands over her eyes, could scarcely persuade herself that all this was not a dream, a beautiful, blissful yet baseless dream. Mrs. St. Dean was no longer a rival 1 She had nothing to fear from Alicia Hilyard I Cousin Fred loved her, and her alone I Cousin Fred bad always loved her I So they were married; and wheef Gen evra knew it she cried out, laughing: "Well, there is hope for the oldest of old maids, now that our Jenny is mar ried 1" For this teventeen-yesr-old beauty could hardly realize that true love exists for anyone over twenty years old I The Lcdgsr. SCIENTIFIC ANII INDUSTRIAL. To make ice by artificial means re quires one ton of coal to produce from from five to ten tons of Ice. A large tewing machine, weighing three and one-fourth tons, is in use in Leeds, England. It sews cotton belt irg. The average weight of the Chinese brain is said to be heavier than the average weight of the brain in any other race. Hard coal loses eight per cent, in bulk per annum when exposed to the weather. Soft coal loses twelve per cent. Experiments have shown that a pump kin will lift two and one-half tons, pro vided the weight is placed to as to interfere with the growth and develop ment of the vegetable. The temperature of the Mediterra nean at 200 fathoms it about fifty-six de grees, and no change is lound in going to the bottom, which in places reaches a depth of 1500 fathoms. M. Cbappuis'i proposed electric rail way through the Simpion Pass it esti mated to cost $8,000,000, and it would greatly reduce the distance between Italy and Northern Europe. The cost of the observatory which is now being built on the top of Mont Blanc, Switzerland, is estimated at $60, 000. Part of the building it to be made available for guides and tourists. The central Sahara registers a mean of ninety-seven degrees in July. Central Australia boasts of ninety-four degrees in January, a mean which is attained in South Carolina and Inner Arabia in mid summer. A British scientist recently stated that if a man woighiug 140 pounds were placed under a hydraulic press and squeezed flat, the result would be 105 pounds of water and thirty-five pounds of dry residue. A laboratory for tba study, under strict scientific conditions, of snake poi sons and cures for snake bitet it to be established in Calcutta. It is to be founded by a native, and will bo the only institution of its kind in the world. An excellent method for waterproof ing the surface of a wa'l is to cover it with a solution of soap. After twenty four hours a coat of lime solution is ap plied. This process is repeated several times, and is claimed to mike the wall perfectly water tight. The researches of many observers, at reported upon by Dr. Bucban, show that the ocean currents cause the toraperature of the west side of the Atlantic, at depths from 100 to 500 fathoms to be nearly ten degrees warmer than at the same depths on the east side. M. Marcey, tbe well known investiga tor of animal movements by moans of in stantaneous photography and the zoc trope, has now succeeded in rendering tbe beating of a living heart visible to the eye. All the phases of the move ment can be followed and properly ex amined by this new method. The heart employed in this experiment was that of a turtle. Otiicial statistics of the colera epidem ic in Germauy last year, and up to its practical disappearance, show that the number of deaths from cholera was 8510. Nine-tentbi practically of this number were in the city and State of Hamburg, where the total number of was 7011 1-22 per cent, of the whole population. (The statistics show that tiie cholera spread up the rivers from the center around Hamburg with diminish ing virulence. Pi.ch pine beams will shrink in thick ness from eighteen aud three-quarter inches to eighteen aud a quarter; spruce from eight and a half inches to eight and thiee-eights; white pine from twelve inches to eleven and seven eighths; yellow pine a trifle less. Cedar beams will shrink from a width of fourteen inches to thirteen and a quarter; elm from eleven to ten fund three-quarters, and oak from twelve to eleven .and three-eights. Onyx Mine In Washington. A vein of onyx was discovered in Gar field County, Washington, recently which the report of au expert miner alogist who visited and examined the And a week or so since shows to bo of considerable extent and probable value. The possible extent of the mines m 1000 acres, tud openings for a mile show a ten-foot vein. The people of the vicinity claim that their couuly is possessed of tbe only onyx mines in the Uuited Slate. Chicago Times, TIIE FIGHTING DERVISHES. 60NS OF THE DESERT WHO ARB UTTERLY FEABLE88. Char gins; Upon FIre-W ailed Square ot Kngllnh Soldiery With Heck leu Bravery. IT is easier to turn a hungry tiger aside from his prey than thor oughly excited Dervish from bit swoop on an enemy, writes a cor respondent on the London Telegraph. His half brother in fanaticism and creed, the Indian or Afghan Ghazi, it terrible, but the African and Arab Dervish it superlatively awtul, with an incurable delirium for his opponent's gore. Howling and whirling Dervishes, such as travelers are "specially conducted to see when visiting the East," are a com paratively harmless sort of lunatics com paied with those types of the African bigots who, "converted" to Mahdism, burn to run amuck with the rest of the unbelieving humanity. Once fairly bit ten with the tarantula of Moslem sectar ian zeal, the proselyte is consumed with the belief that the delights of the seventh or any number of heavens await him if he can only engage in sturdy, steady butchery with "infidels," of hi own or any race. It Is a matter of indif ference to him if, in the operation, while he sheathes his sword in his and his Prophet' enemy, the latter i doing the same to him. Quick and happy transla tion he holds as his sure reward. The stiff fight the other day between tbe Egyptian troops south of Wady Haifa and the Mahdist recnlls to me many a bygone incident and fierce strug gle between British and Egyptian troops and forces largely composed of Der vishes. Ambigol Cataract, where the skirmish took place, is about sixty miles south of Wady Haifa. There is an Egyp tian outpost at Gemai, where tbe great Second Cataract proper begins, and an other at Sarrass. The one station is fif teen miles and the other thirty-three miles further up stream, and the railroad line and ironclad train still run through to both posts. No doubt when the Der vish raiders, numbering 400 strong, were repulsed from the forts they fell back from the river towards the easier-going tracks inlaad, along which they must have sped on their camels. Tbe Egyp tian cavalry which, under careful Eng lish training, have learned to trust their weapons and their own physical strength in a contest with the Bedouinese prob ably not numbering more than two squad rons, overtook the raiders at tho pleas ant aforetime camps of Ambigol. There, no doubt, under the palm-trees' grateful shade, hard by the rush and roar of tbe mighty river, the Egyptian troops at once opened fire upon them. Although the whole of the enemy were unlikely to have been Dervishes for these gentry never run away, but, when necessary, walk sedately out of a fight, merely to assume a fresh coign of vantage a sharp engagement seems to have ensued. The Mahdists, nothing loath, swarmed, mounted and foot, up the rocky hills, which their pursuers had, with sound, tactical judgment, crownod, and whence they had opened lire. I think it was at the battle of El Tcb I first made tho acquaintance of the Mahdist Dervishes. The Fuzzy-AVuzzy Hadendowah tribesmau is the bravest of the brave, but the Dervish is boroism run crazy. These so-called "holy beg gars," self-sworn to devote themselves to the Prophet's cause, came at General Graham's tquare of marines, Highland men, and stout linesmen as if we bad been children to be frightened by a cry. Clad in their patchwork rags, with shaved bared beads, many armed with no better weapons than sticks, they charged full iu front of the fire-walled square. Down they went by scores and hundreds, but others quickly took up the running toward us. I saw them that day more thau one of them pierced through and through with Martini-Henry bullet wounds, come fiercely on, reeling like drunken men, their teeth gleaming and eyes aflame with hatred. Happy were they if they could but cross weapons with our bayonets. When ex hausted nature failed them, their lost act was generally to hurl the weapon they carried, stick, laucu, or sword, toward our ranks, and shout au Arab impreca tion against us, "Nosrauil ' (Nazarunol) An old gray-haired sheik actually charged the square reading the Koran aloud, which he held in bis bauds. Later on, when Sir Herbert (then Colonel) Stewart charged the worsted Arab footmen with bis two regi. menta of cavalry, their mounted Dervishes faced his whole force and boldly charged them in return. Again, at Tamai, when the Arabs broke into General Davis's square, where I was, and having temporarily captured our six machine guns, on which they danced in fiendish glee, the D-jrvishes were iu the forefront of the attack. A big marine, who had bayoneted oue of them, found bis rifle caught and clutched by the fa natic savage, who strove to wrench his foernan with bis sword. It was ut the moment we were being driven back, aud while tho marine tugged and swore to get his weapon free, the reeling Dervish essayed with his parting strength to slay or wound our Tommy Atkius. In the desperate battle ut Abu-Klea, similar scenes occurred. I state it as a fact, of which I took personal note at the time, that during the melee iu which Colonel Burnaby fell, a Dervish, who had struck that officer, and was promptly bayoneted through the back, twisted about while the steel was protrudiug, aud tried to thrust his lance into the soldier. Even the crippled and wounded Dcrvixhes ou the field of battle lay iu wait to stab tbe chauce passiug enemy. Asked to "sur render," and put down their swords and speais, the invariable answer of the sorely stricken Dervish was, "Christian (or infidel) dogs, never!" When I saw them lustiu the Soudan, a few years ago, there was no abatement in their blood thirsty ferocity, nor show of hesitation, whether they numbered 'ew or many, of a longing to get to clo.e quarters with their euewy. THE TWO VISITS, The Kaiser goes to see the Cxar, The worl' turns ont tow- v His retfnne toilers from afa An' then the Kaiser and the Csar Embraos in solemn glee. An then saloot an' hug an' kin. An' both are filled and soaked in blisa Wen I go down to Hiram's plaoe The worl' don't seen to care, I neither kiss bis bands or faoe, Twould make 'em lafT at Hiram's plaoe, T would make 'em 'ar an' tear. But Hiram says, ex roun' he pokes, ' "I'm glad to see ye; how's yer folks!" I tAkea look at Hiram's hogs An' hear how much they grow. This somehow Hira-n't mem'ry Jogs, ' An' be lets out on theui ar hogs- You oughter hear him blow; If you could only hear him onoe You'd hear some ginooine elerkunots Oi' Hiram he is slow enough But none too slow for me, For I'm a purty tame ol' duff, An' fairly modorit enough, An' jest as slow ez he. , So we stub roun' tbe whole day long Until we hear the supper gong. Tbe Kaiser goes to see the Czar, And maybe stops to tea. But men like Czars an' Kaisers are. Cooped in the palace of the Czar, Hain't no sich timos ei we. The Czar an' Kaiser know no charm Like loafin' roun' ol' Hiram's farm. Sam Walter Foss, in Yankee Blade. HUMOR OF THE BAY. It is not man's sins that find bim eut; it' his neighbor. Atchison Globe. The great part of a self-willed man's state usually goes to the lawyers. Troy Press. Every day a man hears a dozen things tie ought to do that he can't do.---Atchl-lon Globe. "Do you believe iu fate, Pat?" "Sure and phwat would we stand on widout em?" Siftings. Whatever may be said of a sweetheart she cau't be too good to bo true. Phil adelphia Times. There is no help for tbe case of the woman who can't get a servant. Phil adelphia Record. Teacher "What is a hero?'' Tommy "The man who marries a heroiue." Indiannpolis Journal. The cynic is the man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. The Fun. Women are not cruel to dumb animal. No woman will wilfully stop on a mouse. Richmond Recorder. It appears to be the business of the needy tramp to go around looking for succors. Biughamton Leader. "Do you think this tooth will stand filling?" Patient "Well, I'm suro it has plenty of nerve." Inter Ocean. The man who thaws out dynamite is being heard from. There is generally but ono report. Baltimore American. The Keg "Your headpiece is posi tively ugly." The Barrel (prouiHy) "Maybe, but I wear hoops." Chicago News. Time is generally represented as carry ing a scythe. This will probably be kept up till it is no mower. Philadelphia Times. "There's another unconscious humor ist!" gleefully remarked tho footpad as be sandbagged the punster. Washing ton Star. "There's a tiino to work aud a time to play," but to the hand-organ grinder both times come at ouce. Rochester Democrat. "Say, Chimraie," said tho boy who had a whito pink, "do blokie dat named dis flower must ov bin color blind." Washington Star. That the cynic is an extreme type t humanity is indicated by the fact that be is always very old or very young. Washington Star. "I feel better ubout lickin' this post ago stamp," said the boy who had been seat to mail a letter. "It's nearer my sizei" Washington Star. "Yes," said tho man who had just fallen down three flights of stairs, "I've been on quite an extended trip." Kate Field's Washington. Dulliate "I find it very hard work to collect my thoughts." Maud "Papa says it's alwuys difficult to recjver small amounts." Inter Ocean. Mudge "Thompson called me au idiot." Yabsley ''You needn't mind that. Thompson ulvvuys does exaggerate more or less." Tit -Hits. What maks the bicycle popular with many, rich or poor, is that, after trying to ride oue, they feel that they arc better off. Philadelphia Times. Artist "How do you like tho por trait I made of you?" Cranky Subject "Well, the coat is too tight under the arms." New York Jouruul. The words of a mau's mouth tell no more of the meditations of bis heart than the voice of a diuner boll tells of the quality of the dinner. I'uck. 'Wheu It comes to reveuuo cutter," said old Bullion, snipping off another coupou, '-there's nothing like a good pair of shears." Chicago Tribuue. A dilTerenco between a knife blade losing i's temper and a woman is that the former becomes duller aud the latter more cutting. Philadelphia Times. When siiuLtw tiie Kid millennium Upon litis uiilitv nation A11 olticrf will be louud lor eaeh lu the whole population. Walii!iU:i Star. At a Party: Suitor "Mem Kraulein, I love you." Rich Youug Lady (point ing with her fan to her lather; "Ex cuse me, yonder is my busiuess mauager." Wiener Luft. Mr. Hortou "What ou earth did you waut of this expensive tire screen I'' Mrs. lloi lou "To keep callers from dis covering that we hadn't any lire." Chi cago luier-Oeeau.
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