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VOL. XXVI. NO. G. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 31. 1893.
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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.