( V THE FOREST REPUBLICAN I p.blhj... trmf WrtaMfej. J. E. WENK. Offlola Bmarbanh A Co.'auliaint KM mUT, TIORMTA, r. Terms, . . . ugMrTnri RATXS OF ADVERTISING I One Square, oil. inoa, one inertoa..t W On. Square, one inch, on. month. . , 0u On. Square, on. inch, three month. . . ( 00, One Square, one inch, one year... . . 10 W Two Square, one year 15 00 Quarter Column, one Tear M 00 Half Column, one year MOO On. Column, one year 100 10 Legal adTertiaenMita ten cent per 11a each uuertton. 1 MarnaKM and death notice, gratis. lb OR EPUBLICAN All bill, for yearly advertisement, en VOL. XXVI. NO. G. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 31. 1893. quarterly. Temporary advertisement I $1.50 PER ANNUM, be paid in advance. Job work oub on delivery. Sixty thousand ncro of Florida lands aro to lie cultivated by Swedes. Tho Netherlands aro nia to be worth $4,935,000,000 Bnd Belgium $4, 030,000,000. Australia has jiiHt completed tho first locomotivp ever built on tho inland continent. It won constructed at Mel bourne. The colored people, of Virginia pay taxes on real estate valued at $9,425, 080, and on personal property vulueil at $3,342,930. A Brooklyn (N. Y.) it. vent or says ho can propel a big stcai.iship across tho Atlantio ill three and a half days with sulphuric .cid. powered sugar and chlorate of pot h1i. Although wo have tho poor always with uh, a two-cent Uritiwli Ouiaua, 1850 issue, posl.ige stamp, was Bold at auction in this city tho other week, muses tho New York Independent, for $1010. Tho New York Sun shows that while in tho country at largo tho proportion of foroign-boru inhabitants is about fonrtoen per cent., it is only 2.60 per cent of thoioUl in tho fourteen South ern States. Spinning wheels are not altogether things of the past. Oo into Cornwall or Wales, or to tho Scotch Highlands, declares tho Chicago Herald, and you will find plenty of cottages where tho spinning wheel is as much a picco of household furniture as are tho scrubbing brush and tho kitchen broom. Tho now railroad from Jaffa to Jer usalem is only ilfty-threo miles long. Passenger trains make seventeen miles an hour. Tho rails came from Eng land, tho ties from France, tho engines from Fhiladclphia, the cars from France and tho heavy work was done by Arabs and Egyptians. The road is not likely to yield a profit for a long time to como. It is a fanciful but pretty conooit, exclaims the Now York News, that cf casting a Columbian Liberty Be'f weighing 13,000 pounds, composed partly of jewels, silver, rare coins and all sorts of precious contributions from women and children in all parts of tho United States. Tho valuo of all these contributions will greatly exceed the value of tli jewels which Isabella is said to have sacrificed for tho outfit of Columbus. Tho dedication of tho Morman Tem ple at Suit Luke City took placo under far different conditions thnu wero ever imagined by those who laid the founda tions, soliloquizes tho San. Francisco Chronicle. Polygamy is now prescribed by rigid laws, and though the spirit of tho laws is viola tod by many Mormans, still tho fear of imprisonment has done much to check one of tho worst fea tures of tho system. Tho younger men among tho Mormans claim that they have discarded polygamy aud that it no longcf pluys an important part in their r el igion ' Many villages in all parts of the United States have taken tho names of tho roadside inns about which they have grown up, but it is perhaps only in conservative Southern Virginia, re-marks-tho New York Sun, that the "ordinaries'' for entertainment of muu and boast have given names to villages. There iB Jenuing's Ordinary in Notto way County, Smoky Ordinary in Brunswick County, aud doubtless many others in the same region. It is here, too, that local maps immortalize the shopkeepers, the 'millers aud the black smiths of an earlier generation. Oddly enough, one looks ulmost in vain for names growing out of tho bloody struggle from '01 to '05. A sort of mythology bas grown up about the American Indian in regions whence ho vanished 100 years ago. The popular names of many plants in clude the adjective Indian. Few per sons in America say Indian corn now, but Indian oukes is a term still strongly intrenched south of Mason and Dixon's line, aud there is even a plunt known to hildron as Indiun tobacco. The brilliant omnia is called Indian shot be cause its seeds are black, bullet-like pellets. Indian traditions are pre served with a sort of reverence in the Soufh. Twenty-five years ago local travelers on a certain road in Worces ter County, Maryland, oommouly topped at a point in the remote coun try, reached under a bush at the road side, drew forth a stono mortar and pestle used by the Indians 100 yean before, showed the relics to any stranger in the compuuy and carefully put them back. A whole neighbor hood knew tho whereabouts of these in struments, but they sotjiued as sofa as in a muneuu, , There are said to be 70,000 lawyers j in tho United States, ono-scveuth of whom have oflloes in New York, "Tho manufacture of paper from wood pulp is destroying acres and acres of beautiful trees," laments tho San Francisco Bulletin. The 1200 persons in tho Census Offloo will retire on tho 31st of December. The Census Division there after will consist of a chief and about twenty-throe employes, to complete tho unfinished work. Tho fouth centenary of the discovery of the new world was celebrated by the French Geographical Society on March 4, that being tho fourth oentenary of the dato the news of the discovery reached Europe. It is said that tho new directory of Baltimore, Md., indicates an increase of 36,000 in tho population of the city during the past year, due largely to tho growth of manufacturing interests in the city and suburbs. For some years past Greece has been gradually monopolizing the earth quakes of Europe. Several beautiful towns and villages have lately been turned in a few moments into heaps of ruins. Amphissa, Lcncadia, Corinth, Egion, Philiatra, and lastly the flower of the Lavant Zante, have all been badly shaken up. At a meeting of the International Hotel Employes' Association in New York City the other day it came out that the waiters of the metropolis have invented a new name to describe the man who regularly omits to give tips to expectant waiters. It is "Miff." The name is not applied to the man who once in a while fails to find his vest pocket when the waiter hands him his hat and inquires how ho was pleased with his dinner, but when that failure becomes chronio his name is handed around from one waiter to another as a Miff, and when he comes into tho es tablishment, it is dollars to doughnuts thartio finds them all too busy to have time to attend to his wants. The Gorman universities are tho most cosmopolitan institutions in the world. Thoy draw students literally from evory cultured land and climate. Of the 27.518 students matriculated at these high schools during the present term ho fewer than 1948 are foreign ers. Of these 403 are Russians, 294 Austrians, 247 Swiss, 131 "English, 52 Greeks, 61 Bulgarians, 50 Hollanders, 36 Turks, 34 French, 31 Italians, 25 Luxemhurgers, 24 Roumanians, 21 Swedes and Norwegians, 18 Servians, 5 Danes, 2 Spaniards. Non-European lands are represented by 414 Ameri cans, the great majority of whom are from the United States, 69 Asiatics, nearly all of whom are Japanese, 14 Africans and 4 Australians. A prize was recently offered by tho Denver (Col.) Sun for the best solution of the problem of how to keep hus bands home at night. The prize was awarded to the writer of the following : "A Quaker advised his son to keep his eyes wide open when courting ; after marriage to keep them half shut. If yon did not act on the first part of tho advice, try the latter. Study your husband's disposition, aud be Bure to make a thorough study of your own. Try using a little tact and a good deal of consideration for his wishes and feelings, and see if you cannot teach him to be more considerate of yours. Business is trying. Men like peace at home. If possible, manage not to be worn out. Be cheerful. Don't worry. Don't scold." Life tables have been compiled from the mortality returnsof various periods of time showing that at birth the ex pectation of life covers more years in the oase of tho female than in that of the male. Those tables also show that at succeeding ages the female lead is maintained. But a tabulation has just been made that will interest others than scientists, statisticians aud life in surance agents, and which, though the data are not very extensive, goes to confirm the results reached in the so called standard life tables. A leading journal has compiled all the eases of notable longevity recorded in its own columns during the year 1892. Of 1151 octogenarians 646 are women and only 605 are men. Above eighty at nearly all ages the returns continue to favor the women; and of six centenariausall but one are women. This does not prove that women are happier thau men, but it is a good indication that as a rule they live longer. And though the most reasonable presumption is that this is because they eujoy an easier life thau men, the average woman will doubtless continue to winh that tdie had been bur 4 a mau. WHERE THE WORLD BEOIN3. Oh, fair is the land where the world begins, Bo near to the other shore H lies, (Only a span as the white dove film) Bo far away from earth's earns and sins. Around It sheltering walls arise, Bullded by love that never dies. This land Is but one of the many Inns Along life's pathway back to tho skins Thorn the dweller toilet h not, nor spins, But only watch" with mute surprise The wonders passing before his eyos, A smile In his swpter, his mandate sighs, And weakness Is ever the power that wins In that beautiful land where the World be gins. M. L. Ames. THE HEIRESS. lit M. A. WOR8WI0K. 'TWERE is the romance of a middle-aged man the ro mimoe of an old head and a young heart. I i'YrVli gray-nairea fjf - 'ttlCii: 1 and forty, and HsI'WI Iff II mv desk in the gloomy little of fice of Harman's mill, a face comes between my eyes and the columns of figures in tho dusty ledgers a young faco with clear, bright eyes and I fall into a day-dream and forget that I am old and poor and commonplace. She is the only child of Jere Harman, tho millionaire mill-owner, and as gen tle and good as she is beautiful. I have watched her grow into womanhood. I have watched her char acter deepening and widening and de veloping toward the ideal of my dreams. And all these years I have been learn ing to love her. Surely love is not wholly wasted though it is hopeless. I am a better man that I have loved Nellie Harman. No. I build no air-castles. I am forty and she eighteen. I am only her father's bookkeeper and she is the heiress of millions. There was a time when littlo Nellie Harman rode on my shoulder hunted my pockets for goodies, and escaped her nurse's charge several times a day to toddle down to tho mill in search of "her Jack Spencer." Later she brought her school tasks, the incor rigible Latin verbs and the unconquer able examples in fractious, to tho same old friend, who was never too busy to be bothered by little Nellie Harman. She is as unaffected and cordial in her friendliness as ever, and sometimes when she lays her hand on my arm aud looks up into my face and asks why I come so seldom to tho Hall, and have I grown tired of old friends, of her then I find it hard to answer lightly, to smile calmly, and I go away with a heartache. Tho girl does not lack for friends. Grim, stern old Jere Harman's little bright-faced child, motherless since her babyhood, long ago found a tender spot in the hearts of the village folk. In tho cottages her face is as welcome as sunshine. Tho children hang on her gown, the women sing her praises, and the roughest mill hand has always a civil word for her, and a lift of the cap as she passes. She has her young friends, too, among the country gentlefolk. Young Harry Desmond is often at tho Hall. It is rumored that he is the fortunate suitor of Jere Harman's heiress. He is a fresh-faced, good-hearted lad. Love is for youth, and they are young together. Gray-haired Jack Spencer, what have vou to do with "love's young dream?" Tho strike I Tho mill is shut down and the strikers gather in knots along the vil lage street and discuss the situation. The cut-rates have caused the trouble. Jere Harman is a hard man and a hard master. He holds the fate of these people in his hands. A few cents less to them, a few dollars more to him. This seemed to him to settle the question. Tho times were dull he would reduce wages. The Harman mill operatives went out in a body. Tho first day of the strike Big John, the weaver, who headed the strikers, came to Jere Harman with a delegation to arbitrate the matter. To them Harinim said: "Return to work at my terms or stay out and starve. Monday I hire new hands if you are not back in your places. As long as I own this mill I shall bo mas ter here." This was his final answer, aud no words of mine, no warnings of tho mur murs and throats that grow and deepen among the men, will shake his will. There is talk of firing the mill among the mud-brained ones, but Big John shakes his head. "That were chopping tho nose off to spite tho face, men. If tho mill were burnt how would that help us to work and wages? Nay; it must bo other means." . "Aye, wo must live ; but if we do not get our rights by fair means we will have them by foul," cried another. They meant mischief. I have warned Jere Harman, but ho will not hoed. The strike is over. The night is ended, and I sit alone in the ofhoe in the gray dawn, siek aud dizzy with the horrors of tho night's experience. I shut my eyes aud the picture stands out before me the dark night, the hall with its lights glowing out through the windows, the gay party of young people in the drawing-room ; the gleam of torches outside, the mob of desperate nu n, the angry, upturned fact. 'r!.ere was a tramp of feet, Wi'rf aWu, Mid a fetvue waclicd Af I ill I kwm through a window and shattered th chandelier. The music stopped with a discordant crash. There was instant confusion, and above it all there wero the hoarse cries for Jere Harman. I sprang through the piazza window and faced the men. They know mo well, and Big John shouted : "We've naught against you, John Spenoer. Wo mean no harm to Buy, but tho master must hear us. Bring out tho master !" "Come like honest men, in daylight, and talk it over calmly," I urged ; "not at night, like a mob of rufiians with stones for arguments." Jere Harman had come out to them. They greeted him with an angry shout. "We are to bo put off no longer. Is it our rights by fair means or by foul, Jere Harman?" "Your rights began Jere Harman in his harsh, stern voice. I saw that Nellie Harman had slippod out to her father's side and laid her hand pleadingly on his shoulder. Sho did not fear the angry men, for will ingly not one of them would have harmed a hair of her dainty head. I saw that sho would have pleaded with her father to be gentlo with them. "Yes, our rights!" yelled a voice in tho crowd with an awful oath. Ho was drunken or blind with rage surely he did not see the girl at her father's side. A stone whizzed through tho air. It might have been Jere Harman's death blow ; instead, it struck her. It cut a great, cruel gash just above the teruple. They sprang toward her her friends, her lover but Nellie Harmau put her two hands out to me with a sharp, gasping cry. "Jack, jack?" she said, and I caught her in my arms. I have lived over the agony, tho joy, of that moment all through tho long, lonely hours of this night. It was big John himself who bronght the doctor and criod like a child when they told him she was dying. His little crippled child she had loved aud cared for, and it had died in her arms. "Aye, and that harm should have come to her, who was more good and innocent of wrong than the angels!" muttered Big John, brokenly, as ho went away softened and sorrow ful. Jere Harman sent me out to tell the men that he had yielded, and in the silence of death they went away. The strike is over. As I Bit here in the gray dawn, wait ing, fearing, dreading the coming of the morning and the news it may bring, I hear the clatter of horses' hoofs. It is a servant from the Hall riding to tho villago on some errand. "What news?" I call out hoarsely, and learn that the worst is over and that sho will live. Nellie Harman hovered between lifo and death for long weeks, and I worked as I had never worked before. Jere Harman left much of tho manage ment of tho mill in my hands, and I put heart and brain in the work or I should have gono mad in those weeks with the longiug to see her face. When sho was well again I spent many even ings at tho Hull, talking business with her father, who. came seldom to the office iD those days. Ho had broken in health with the recent troubles and had lost energy, but ho was gentler and kinder than of old. Harry Desmond was always there. T was but a dull guest. I could not en dure his light-heartedness, the triumph in his eyes, the happiness in his laugh. I could not endure that he should cull her by name or smile on her. I was a mad fool ! I told Jere Harman that I must go away ; that I must have rest, change a vacation. Gordon, tho young fore man, could take my place, I urged, and he consented, though grudgingly. The last evening I promised him to spend at the Hall and go over the ac counts with him. Never hail Nellie been brighter or gayer. I felt n vague pang that my going was so little to her. It was early when Desmond left, and I immediately -rose to go. Jere Har man grasped my hand cordially in farewell, and Nellie said simply "Good bye," aud I went down tho path slowly and sadly. Suddenly I heard a light, flying step behind me us I reached tho shadow of the trees. It was Nellie. I stepped back in tho darkness, Sho stopped, as if listening, and then cume toward me. "I thought I should overtake you," she whispered, slipping her arm through mine. "Did you think 1 could let you go away to-night without a last word?" There was something in her voice, a tenderness, that explained all. Sho had come out to meet her lover, Des uumd, aud mistaken mo for him iu the darkness. But to have her so near was very sweet. Sho seemed not to care for speech. She was very still just clasping my arm aud leaning over so gently against my shoulder. The temptation was great I was going away just to take away with me the memory of a moment's heaven I I kissed her. "Forgive me," I pleaded, desper ately. "You thought me your lover, Desmond, t.'id was cruel, uiu.l, to take that kiss. Nellie, forgive mo. " "But I kissed you, Jock," she whispered. "Aud you won't go oh, Jack ! you won't go when I love you so. Jack Spencer, gray-haired aud forty, common place aud poor sho loved him ! That is my romance. Frank Leslie's Weekly. Alexander Hamilton was only thirty two years old when Washington mailt him Secretary of tho Treasury. Jetl'cr- sou, who was forty-six, was the oldest member of this youthful cabinet. Cleveland, Ohio, has an ordinance that limits tlu' iiiimlier of street car passengers tq iho beating capacity V the, vehicle, SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. A fly has 16,000 eyes. Malaria is most dangerous at sunset. There are 240,000 varieties of in sects. Dirt and disease travel in pairs. Clean out tho dirt and disease has littlo show. Southern Pacifio locomotives will soon uso for fuel bricks made of coal dust and asphaltunl. There is a machine at the Krnpp gnu works at Essen, Germany, that rolls iron to tho thinnesss of sixteenth hundrodths of an inch thinner than the thinnest sheet of tissue paper. The cholera microbe was discovered by Doctor Koch, of Berlin, in 18H3. In length, it would require over twelve thousand of them to make an inch, while their breadth is about one-fifth of their length. The orbit of tho plonet Neptune, thirty times further from the sun than that of tho earth, formB the outer boundary of the solar system. The distance is immense, yet shrinks into insignificance when compared with that which lies lieyond. The study of inoculation for cholera was first taken up by Pasteur, at the instance of a Prince of Siam, in whose country it is indigenous. It is hoped that it may ultimately be stamped out there, and in this way its propagation to other parts of the world prevented. At Baku, Caucasus, the other day, a petroleum well was being bored. When the depth of obont 900 feet had been reached, tho fluid rushed up with such force that all the machinery was de stroyed, and the windows iu the neigh boring houses broken. After three days the well was exhausted. The Arctio explorer Nanssen has a scheme for shutting himself up in the Polar Sea with provisions for five years and seeing where the drift of the Arctic ice carries him. He is advocating it before the Royal Geographical Society and has roused great interest. Tho general feeling is that Nanssen will never return. As everybody is learning now, boil ing kills the microbes in water, and it was only when the authority of a law forbidding the use of the infected river water was put in force in Hamburg last autumn that the cholera was really checked ; and it is interesting to learn that Cyrus, who seems to have had good ideas of sanitation, when crossing the river Choaspes, had all the drink ing water for his army boiled in silver bowls, the legend says. The following are the lowest barom eter readings on record in various parts of the globe : In London, a reading of 27.93 inches on the morning of Christmas day, 1821 ; over the Brit ish islands generally, a reading of 27.33 inches on January 26, 1884 ; In India, a reading of 27.12 iuchcfl at Falso Point, near the Southern months of t he Gauges, on September 22, 1885, this being the loweBt authentic reading ob served in any part of the world. The Weight of Compact Bodies. The load which is produced by a dense crowd of persons is generally taken at eighty to 100 pounds per square foot and is considered to be the greuiest uniformly distributed load for which a floor need be proportioned. That this value may be largely ex ceeded iu an actual crowd was pointed out by Professor V. 0. Kernot, of Melbourne University, Australia, in a recent paper before the Victorian In stitute f Engineers, copied into En gineer News. In an actual trial, a clans of students averaging 153.5 pounds each in weight were crowded in a lobby containing 18.23 square feet, making an average floor load of 134. 7 pounds. There was still room to have placed another man, which would have brought up tho loading to 143. 1 pouuds per square foot. Professor Kernot also quoted from Stoney, who placed fifty-eight laborers, averaging 1 45 pouuds each in weight, in an empty ship deck-house measuring fifty-seven square feet floor area. This was a load of 147.4 pounds per square foot. In another test, with seventy-three labor ers crowded into a hut nino feet by eight feet eight inches, Stoney pro duced a load of 142 pounds per square foot and estimated that two or throe more men could have been squeezed iu. It appears from these experiments thut while tho figures ordinarily assumed of eighty to 100 pounds are sufficiently correct for spaces on which there is uo cause to induce tho collection of great crowds, larger figures, say 140 to lot) pounds per square foot, should be used for railway stations aud platforms, en trances aud exits to places of public as semblies or office buildings, bridge side walks, pavements over vaults ami oth;r places where dense crowds uru likely to gather. To Ehonize Wood. The siuqdest way to ebonize wood is as follows: Take one-quarter pound of logwood chips aud boil them in one pint of water for about an hour ; while still hot brush this solution over the carving. When tho latter is dry, give another coat of the hot liquid. When this second coat is quite dry, coat with solution of one-half ounce green cop peras dissolved iu one pint of hot water. This will give a really good black, aud wood so ebouized can be sized or pol ished or oiled lis required. New York Sun. The Kile. The total length of tho Nilo is 3370 miles, it drams a country us exten sive as Russia, and for the last 1200 miles of its course receives no surface affluent, large or small. Tho fall from Assouan to Cairo is from two to threo inches in a mile, and throughout the Delta this slight slope diminishes to less than oug inch. Detroit Frei) TAPPLNG A MAPLE TREE. A GREAT AND DISTINCTIVELY AMERICAN INDUSTRY. The Best Weather for a nig Yield Curious Things About Bap and Maple Trees iilliv j rem. pF I could make tho maplo ti I of the country. I wouldn't i I who mako either its songi 6 its laws," saidaNew York c F I could make tho maplo sugar care songs or com mission man. "Last year the mapie belt of the United States gave up enough sap to yield 70,000,000 pounds of sugar. This year, from all reports, this distinctively American product will be increased at least 5,000,000 pounds. This will bo due in great part to tho Government bounty on mapla sugar, and in no small degree to the fact that 1893 will be an exceptionally good sap year. The winter was extraordinarily cold, but it was even in temperature. There was much snow in tho woods. Spring in its approach kept the golden mean between lingering cold aud sud den warmth. This is as it should bo for proper sugar weather. Spring weather in January or February starts the sap before its time. Winter weather in March and April checks its flow. There will be more maplo sugar made this spring than was ever mado before, and of a better quality than has been known for many years. Last year, including tho Government bounty, the maple sugar crop netted the farmers ten cents a pound. It will not bo less this year. They may con fidently calculate on receiving $7,500, 000 for their crop in 1893. Who would not rather make the maple sugar of tho country thon cither its songs or its laws? "Vermont, for some reason, is gen erally supposed to be tho ono great source of the country's ninplo sugar supply, and yet Vermont makes less than one-fifteenth of the whole. Ver mont's repntatiou for producing the finest quality of sugar is deserved, for the sugar makers of that State wero the first to recognize the importance of the commodity as a factor in domestic as well as foreign commerce, and to "bring to its manufacture not only scientific helps but tho potent aid of observation aud study of the maple tree, and the effects upon it of climate, soil, and meteorological conditions. "It is the popular belief that pure maple sugar is invariably known by its dark, damp-looking appearuuee. In the old days of maplo sugar making the product was necessarily very dark, be cause the simple processes then in uso could not make it light. But it was full of impurities all tho snnie. Not adulterations, but natural impurities. Nowadays it is not the dark maplo sugar that should bo regarded as tho pure article, for it is more apt to bo the most impure. Tho very best maple sugar that conies from Vermont or else where is of a light, clear, dry, glossy brown so very light, indeed, that it looks like clarified beeswax. "Many curious things about sap and maple trees have been discovered by observant sugar makers. For tho sap to run freely there must bo well-mingled conditions of heat, cold aud light. In Vermont the sugar maker has found that ho gets more and sweeter sup by tapping his trees as near the roots as he conveniently can, while iu this State, especially in Western New York, a high tap yields tho greater quantity and the better quality of sap. A still, dry, dense atmosphere, with a north west wind, is tho best for steady sap running. Wben tho ground thaws dur ing the day and freezes at night, and there is plenty of snow in the w oods, "sap weather" is said to be at its best. A southwest wind, with threats of a storm, will stop the flow of sup. II the storm is a snow storm, though, aud a freeze succeeds it, tho sugar mukei will bo happy, for then tho tap w ill start with redoubled freedom wben the thaw that must quick ly follow comes. Sap runs better when the air is highly oxygenized. A tup on the south side of a tree will produce more sap thau a tap on the north side. Sap that runs at night will mako more and better sugar than tho same quantity of day sap. Sap is also heavier with saccharine mutter when caught immediately before or just after a snow storm or a freeze-up. A few trees will produce us much sap as a good many. This apparent utio maly is explained by tho curious fact that trees standing close together divide tho aggregate flow mado possible by the area of soil they cover, which ag gregate would be as great if there were half as many trees draining the spot. An acre of good ground should not be called upon to support more than thirty trees to be used in sugar making. More than that on an aero will decrease tho supply of sugur--that is, no matter how many trees a farmer might tap on an acre, he would get no more sugar thau if he had but thirty trees on tho aer-. A well-kept sugar bush should yield ten pounds of sugar to the tree, or 300 pounds to the acre. Five gallons of good sap will mako ono gallon of good syrup. A gallon of syrup will make bctueeu six and eight pounds of sugar. It is the hard maplo tree that mukes the sugar. Windham County, Xt. ; Somerset County, Peuu., und IVlrwuro County, N. Y., are tho three greatest lnulo sugar producing counties in the Union, tho first leading the list uith an annual yield of about 3,000. ODD pouuds, the second producing 2,500, 000 pounds, und the third 2,000.000 pounds. The largest sugar bush is in Windham County. It contains 7000 sap-bearing trees. -'-New York Sun. Pay son Tucker, the general manager of tho Maine Central Railroad, recently adopted the novel social expedient ot' eutertaiuiug his friend at the station in Portland, having a reception iu the ollices and a dinner iu the elation diu-iUtf-IO0in, A HAPPY PHILOSOPHER. Pome folks, thoy 'rc pomplatnln' Because It ain't rainin' An' some 'cause the weather la dry But I kinder content me With all that Is sent me, An' don't go to askiu' 'era "why." There's lots o good fun In The world tho Lord's runnln' Though It's sometimes a song uu' a sigh 1 But when trouUee are rilin' I jes' keep a smilin' An' don't go to askuv 'em "why." Jes' hoar the birds slngin When death-bells aro ringln An' thrillln' the world an' the sky 1 They'll sing so a while hence When I'm In tho silenco But don't go to askin' em "why.' If life has one flower ' Ono Iwautiful hour, 'i Ono somg that conn's after a sigh. ' For me there'll be fun lu Tho world the Lord's runnln' An' I won't go to askin'' Mm "why !" Atlanta Constitution. IIl'MOR OF THE DAY. Long may it wavo The ocean. Truth.. Nothing less than a strike arouses a bass drum to action. Detroit Free rress. Let it bo understood that thero aro popular facts as well as popular fal lacies. Truth. "I'm feeling dead rocky," as the petrified fish remarked to itself. Har vard Lampoon. Love is frequently satisfied with quantity; but friendship demands quality. ---Puck. A girl's conversation must appear flowery when she "talks through her hat." Statesman. A man may itch for office, but it is the voter's right to do tho scratching. Boston Courier. "I'm in a pretty pickle," as tho fly said when ho fell into a jar of red cab bage." Texas Sittings. The only bright spot left by soma men is tho scoured place on the chair. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Since tho introduction of electricity the street car horso has been gradually losing his pull. Buffalo Courier. There is something wrong with the man's head who falls down on tho same banana skin twice. Ram's Horn. They can disinfect nnd qunrantino, Aud work as hard as a heaver To make tho country sweet and clean, But they can't keep out spring fever. '. Kuusust'ttv Journal. ' In the summer perhaps wo can turn the big postage stamps wrong side up aud uso them for liy paper. Washing ton Star. When a crato of crockery fulla through an elevator shaft it's a littlo tho worse for tho ware. liinghumton Leader. They make tho man iu chargo of a steam fog signal do considerable whis tling for his pay before ho gets it. Buffalo Courier. "It's a wise luouiircU said the man who abdicated a precarious throno, "who knows enough to come iu out of tho reign." Washington Star. "It's pretty hard on a man of my age to have to depend on his looks,' said the astronomer as ho put his eyo to tho telescope. Washington Star. Chorlu-' "Why did they bury poor Gilder at night?" Archie "Ho had no decent clothes but a drops suit." Tho Clothiers' and Haberdashers' Weekly. She "So you're fully determined to marry her, aro you?" He "Abso lutely." She "li'm Don't you ever feel sorry for her?" Detroit Tribune. Clara "Did you know thut Mrs. Dangle had gono on a trip to Ber muda?" Maude -"N'o. I must call on her before she gets back." Vogue. Whenever the piano ceased Tlicro was a i;reat furore. And those who uudcr.-ilmnt it least Wero loudest to en ere. Kansas City Journal. Mrs. Goodwin "Vou shouldn't eat so many peanuts, Johnny; you'll be having dyspepsia." Johnny "Do tho policemen have dvspepsia, niunima?" Life. rjhe "A poor painter! Why, ho gays that he is wedded to his art." Ho '"Perhaps that is the reason, then, that ho dares treat her so badly." Truth. A woman is keeping in a book a list of things she ought to purchase, but caunot afford to wear. She calls tho book her oiight-to-buy-oj.;r.iphy. New York Clipper. About the most discouraging thing that conns to a man iu this lid' is tho desire to whip ail enemy, coupled with the belief that he can't do it. Cleve land Plain Dealer. Extract From I.ove Letter: "Should you fail to reciprocate my affection, then please return this letter, iu order that 1 may use it on another occasion. " Flicgeiide lilactter. Customer "What's the price of your tallow can. lies'" Dealt r "Five cents apiece ; liity cents u do;:eu." Customer "Well, let me have a twelfth of a dozen." "I don't know which is woist," languidly remarked the European monarch as he read of aiiotht r attempt jii his life, "my people's disloyalty or their iiiarkMuauship. " Washington Star. Miss Elder "I think it was real mean iu you to tell Mr. S ..tli I was twenty -eight yearn old. " Sin Eosdiek "Why, you surely didn't want me to tell him how old you really were?" Vogue. Little l!eth (ill tho country) " iruiidpupa, you must have to keepuii awful lot of policemen out here." Uruudpu "Why, Beth?" Belli - "Oh, there's sueh a lot of grass to keep off jf." Chicago lnter-lA'citn.
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