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VOL. XXVI. NO. 20. TIONESTA, TA., WEDNESDAY, SKrT. 0, 1893.
81.50 TEH ANNUM.
trt pain in a u ration.
Job work can h on delivery.
AJN.
Edison think tlial tbe railway speed
of the future will be 150 miles an hour.
It is estimated, from thfi census of
1890, that the insect pests cost, the
fruit growers of the United States
about $4,000,000 A year.
Hie financial crisis in Spain ha sc
HourI reduced railroad traffic) so that
nearly all lines are badly crippled, nnd
tome hate been forced to offer new is
sues of bonds on tho market.
One of the scientific sharps Lss an
nounced, notes the Detroit Free Press,
that if the funny little lean from which
castor oil is squeezed bo grown around
the windows and doors of dwellings,
instead of hop vins, hollyhocks, bur
docks, fennel or sunflowers, flies will
keep so fnr away that you can't hear
one buzz. The small boy will easily
believe this.
The Rot. Thomas Craven, who has
been a Methodist missionary for nearly
twenty years in India, is visiting Chi
cago. He says, reports the New Turk
Tribune, that almost the only news
cabled from this country to India dur
ing the last few months has been that
relating to silver. "Even such im
portant matters as the election of
Cleveland, " he says, ' 'might reasonably
have been expected to be have been
ignored in the telegraphic dispatches
to India. These dispotches did not
Yen let us know whether Cleveland
was elected or not. But, on the other
haud, every little motion or resolution
and every interview with well-known
publio men on the silver question was
at once telegraphed to us. This
showed the keenness with which we
were observing the action of this coun
try on the silver question."
The Government of Japan has in
hojid plans for the construction of
fourteen new rail w ay linos. At present
the railway mileage of the empiro
reaches some 1500, of which 894 be
longs to various companies. These, it
is said, will be taken over by the State.
Formerly the lines were built by
British contractors, with material sup
plied by the United Kingdom, and
were operated by foreign engineers,
bat now the State and private com
panies have their own Japanese en
gineers, and a great part of the railway
material and rolling stock can be fur
nished from the National shops at
Shinbasi, although there is still room
for considerable foreigu importation
in this line.
Foreigners are wont to classify Aus
tria among the German countries. As
a matter of fact her German speaking
population is but limited, and annually
losing ground. The increase in popu
lation among tho German inhabitants
of Austria is but 5.17 per thousand per
year ; the increase with the Italians in
Austria is 5.02, and with the Slavonic
races 7.93. Of 100 marriageable wo
men in the German districts of Austria,
forty-one And husbands ; among the
Slavonic races the percentage is fifty-
two. One of the reasons for this show
ing is that in the German districts of
Austria the economio management of
affairs is almost prohibitory to mar
riage among the younger sons and
daughters of the peasants. The home
stead goes to the eldest son, whose
brothers and sisters become his ser
vants. Among the Slavs the family
property is equally divided among all
children after tho death of the father,
and each one is allowed to begin house
keeping on his own hook.
The trials of the rainmaker are, in
deed, numerous, remarks the Wash'
ington Star. For a long time it has
been asserted that a rainmaker is i
myth. People may think they pro
duoe rain, and they may make other
people think so; but, according to the
doubters, it is a case of imagination
purely. Under conditions like these
the rainmaker might comfort himself
with the thought that genius very sel
. lom secures prompt appreciation and
go his way, feeling sure that posterity
would see his vindication. But now
comes a grief of an entirely opposite
character. A Kansas rainmaker boast
ed that'a cloudburst, whiuh oame quite
anpredicted, was tho result of his pro
fossional endeavors. Thereupon i
Kansus farmer arose with a claim for
damages because tho cloudburst had
destroyed his crops, and the wife of a
man who was killed iu a washout wants
liberal damages. Tho dilemma is a
painful one. The rainmaker must
either repudiate his gjienco anl do
clare that his assertions were empty
boasts, or else he must assume the
tnoral and financial responsibility for
this devastating storm. It is an inter.
esting problem, too, for the courts to
handle, and the publio will wait with
interest for light which the judicial
mind may throw ou the question of to
what extent it fs possible for a ralu
maker to be responsible fur rain.
France has the dist inction of being
the most carefully cultivated agricul
tural country in Europe. ,
More than half of the marriage In
Kansas last year were of colored peo
ple, although this race constitutes only
one-twentieth of the population.
Count Tolstoi, the Russian philoso
pher, declares that he entertains a
great dislike trt all poetry, because it
prevents one from giving a "clear, in
telligent and comprehensive expression
to one's thoughts and ideas." He says
that verses are generally the produc
tion of "literary wantonness, literary
frivolity and literary insolence."
At a meeting of railway employes' in
Chicago recently Eugene V. Debs.long
connected with labor movements, said
that out of 1,000,000 railway employes
in the United States but 150,000, less
than one-sixth of the entire number,
were members of the varions existing
unions of railway employes. Probably
this is about the proportion of union
and nonunion men in other trades and
employments, suggests Public Opinion.
Says the New York Independent on
the subject of irrigation : The earliest
agriculture of Europe, Asia and Af
rica began in arid lands. Turning to
America it is discovered that this fun
damental art began everywhere under
like conditions of great aridity, on
sandy plains and hot deserts. In the
southwestern portion of the United
States, the very last district of the
country to be settled by white men, in
some portions of Utah, Colorado,
Arizona, New Mexioo, Nevada and
California, where natural vegetation is
so rare that it scarcely gives character
to the landscape, where sandstorms
drive over the country, where naked
plains spread under a lurid sky, and
where the landscape is often one of
naked rock, and where adamantine
forms stand in groves, and the trees
are fossils buried in the rocks, the
most ancient agriculture is found. For
in the country thus described, the In
dian tribes in oenturies lost to history
cultivated the soil by artificial irriga
tion, and developed corn, cotton, po
tatoes, and other vegetables useful to
man, while the rich valleys to the
north and east were yet untouched by
agricultural labor.
Tho Southern States Magazine ob
serves: "There appears to be an im
pression among those who have seen
but little of the South, particularly
during the past two years, that tho
Southern planter or farmer is so abso
lutely dependent upon cotton that if
that single crop fails, ruin and desola
tion to the entire farming community
will follow. While it is true that a
certain number of cotton planters still
hold to the time-honored plan of plant
ing nothing but cotton, the time when
this could be called a universal con
dition in the South has happily passed,
and a new and broader farming indus
try has taken its place. In 1892 the
cotton crop of the South was valued at
about $316,000,000. The corn crop
was valued at 9248,000,000, wheat over
S 40, 000, 000 and oat s about 825,000, 000.
These three products then were of
equal value with the cotton crop. Add
ing to them the value of tobacco raised,
over $22,000,000; of rioe, about J10,
000,000; Florida oranges, about $3,
600,000, and of garden truck, fruit and
vegetables shipped North, between
40,000,000 and $50,000,000, the total
volue of the products named amounts
to about $10,000,000. It was only iu
the years immediately following the
war that cotton was raised almost to
the exclusion of other products. . This
was because the people were almost
penniless and cotton was the one crop
upon which advsuoes could be secured.
The oonditiouof things has been stead
ily improving, and within the past two
years the lesson taught by planting too
much oottou has been so impressed
upon every one engaged in it that there
has been a general effort to raiso mors
foodstuffs, and particularly to provide
the food needed on each plantation or
farm. The Southern farmer to-day is
not solely dependent upon his cotton
crop for a living. In western Tennes
see, Aryans?, Mississippi, Louisiana
and Texas, while so Lie few are follow
ing the old plan of purchasing food and
planting cotton, tho vast majority are
raising diversified crops, and each suc
ceeding year will sue this plan carried
out in a greater degree. Iu Georgia
and the Carolina cotton raising will
soon hold second place, as to value,
among the agricultural products of til
States, not ntotssarily because, less
will bo raked, but because of tho u
cret.se iu iho production of cereals,
fruit and vegetables. Through the
western pari of tun cottou boit such a
condition will not be likely to ovist,
but cotton will never again be raised
in pKcq of fool products, has btco
clone in (ho past."
THE DEATH STROKE,
'Twas the sunny Syrian sea
Off the. coast of Tripoli
And the ironclads of England were at
play
While their mimic thunder rent
With lis roar the Armament.
As they tacked snd they maneuvrod In the
bay (
tot our navy Is the prldo
Ot,that seil without a tide,
And our home Is on the deep amid the
sproy.
Something terribly amiss
In a moment ! That or this.
Han or mechanism? Well, I do not know ;
On the gallant flagship came,
Quick ss stroke of lightning flame
Or the giant rush of tempest, such a blow
That, her harness rent, she bowed
And a mighty Iron shroud,
With her Admiral and crew shs sank
below !
Do you deem they should have died
On a fierce and reddened tide.
In the fury and the glory of the fight?
With the ensign shot to rags,
And with striking of the flag
Of the foemen on the left and on the
right i
With brave rescue from the wreck,
And wild cheering on the deck,
That Britannia had not parted with her
might?
Be Eush glory whnt It may,
Yet I venture still to say
That these shall not lose their guerdon or
thoir fame,
Though they died without a blow i
Well, the Highest died He so ;
And our land shall shrine their memory nnd
their name :
For the man who, In the host,
Is death striekon at his post,
"It Is flnlshod" may triumphantly exclaim !
There Is grlof lor me and you,
But for Tyron and his crew
Happy future as was honor in the past j
Though tbe Admiral no more
May hear wind or water roar.
Though his saliors cannot battle with the
blast, f .
For, the Tllot of all sens,
He will welcome souls like these,
And shall guide them to fair haven land
at last 1
Iiondou Athensum.
A MAN WITH A BABY FACE.
ST WILLIAM A. M'CUCAN.
IMMY ELLIS is
indeed a funny
boy," laughed
Julia Costello to
a friend.
"They say he
is head over heels
in love with you
follows you, is
to be found some'
where near you
most of his time,
They tell me you have completely be
witched the boy, " rejoined the friend.
"I must confess he seems to act very
foolishly, sso matter what I do or say,
or ignore him, I can t scere mm away,
I have never done the slightest thing
to encourage him, Julia soberly re
plied.
"What's the matter with the boy,
than, that he hangs around you bo
much? the friend asked.
"I don't know," Julia slowly said,
and added in a wistful manner, "I
wonder whether Jimmy will ever be a
man will ever look like a man.
"He'ea pretty boy.anyhow," laughed
the friend.
"Pretty as a baby," said Julia, join
ing in the laugh.
The subject of this conversation was
not a boy, but a man of thirty years.
A man of full stature, yet with the ex
pressionless face of a baby. It was
round and full The skin was of a soft
pink color, with a tinge of darker color
in the cheeks. The eyes were large
and of a light blue, and opened in an
innocent surprise when their owner
was spoken to. He had a little chubby
noso and a small mouth. There were
no lines or shadows on his face.
Be was a pretty man ; so pretty that
Lis face was repulsive to man and to
womankind. There was nothing
about the face to counteract the seem
ingly . expressionless vacuity there.
Strangers continually asked, "Who is
the man with the baby face?" The
reply was always ' 'Jimmy Ellis. " The
man James Ellis was swallowed up in
the boy Jimmy.
Another characteristic heightened
tbe effects of his boyishness. Hisvoice
was pitched an octave higher than is
usual in men. He spoke iu a light,
chattering tone that went off into a
screech. Ho talked and laughed like
a woman. All his male associates as
he became older grew away from him,
deriding the man with a baby face and
a woman's voice. Womankind seemod
ever to be mating sport of him.
James Ellis was extremely sensitive
in respect to these characteristics. He
woo conscious of tho fun and sport
others were having at his expense. In
consequence he gave humanity a wide
berth. Whi!o he did eo, he hated
that big baby face of his. It made
life muersuie to him. It angered him
at times to hear his own voioe. He
had in vain tried to coax a growth of
whiskers to hide the face. A tuft of
yellow hair here and there was all that
made its appearance. In despair he
bad given up any further attempts in
this direction.
Notwithstanding these outward
signs, James Ellis wns a man of true,
honest, and honorable instincts and as
pirations. He delighted in the pleasures
of a robust tr.auhood. Ho was an all
round htL'.ote. There was not a better
horseback-rider iu tho town in which
he lived. His mother had died when
he W04 a ohild. If is father died whan
he reached his mujority, leaving him a
homo hi the Pennsylvania town of B
and t'.v 3 farms lying u?ar tha village.
An aunt hid btcu iaetul'cd o house
keeper ore the homo.
Jarrie Ellis was a better manoger of
the farms thsn his father had been be-
foro him. He gnve therrt his Const ant
attention. There was no part of tho
work on tho form he could not, do.
Those under him knew what would bo
expected from them. James Ellis not
only knew how to manage the farms
better than his father, but knew how
to live and enjoy life and that which
he made, better.
Iherri Was not ft better library in the
town than his j he had collected it hiru
slf. He Was a lover of art. James
Ellis was a talented man. Hi large
hunting-dog heard many a soliloquy
that for originality aud brightuefs
would have rivaled tho mental calibre
of by far the greater number of his
follow-townsmen.
James Ellis's life had been, however,
a failure, ns ho looked at it an un
happy failure a miserable existence,
caused by a baby face, and a woman's
voice.
His greatest happiness, end nt the
same time his greatest nnhappincss,
wns his love for Julia Costello. He
was not content unless near her. Ho
worshiped her. It was the love of a
strong man ; the only love of a lonely
life. He had known her from child
hood, and had always loved her. He
loved her because he could not con
ceive how life could bo complete with
out her. Because he behoved that
with woman the best gift to man
this woman, could ho alono reach the
great blessings of existence home,
love, happiness. He was miserable
because he had been nnd was no more
to Julia than "Jimmy." He felt that,
with his baby face and woman's voice,
he had failed to awaken the chords of
love, to sound the depths of her heart,
Sho liked him, respected him, but he
was only "Jimmy, her boy pluy
mate.
Shortly "after the conversation be
tween Julia and her friend, James Ellis
succeeded m gaining a long-looked
for opportunity. Taking Julia's hand
in his, he said, in his squeaky voice :
"Julia, darling, I lovo you, I love
you. This lovo is the Bwectcst, the
only thing on eerih that makes life
worth the living to me. Be mine.
Love mo marry me."
Julia could not help seeing the ridic
ulous in the voice, in the face, nnd
interrupted him several times as he
spoke, saying:
"Oh, don't, Jimmy ! Don't, Jimmy I"
Silence ensued. Ho began again :
"Won't you give mo your answer?
Can't you love me ?"
Oh, don't! OL, don't, Jimmy !" Julia
again pleaded.
"Can I hope? Teli me something,"
James Ellis urged.
"I hardly know what to fay," Julia
answered. "I have never thought of
such a thing as yon havo cpoken of.
It seems funny. You seem but the boy
I played with yet. I hardly kno n
whether to bid you to hopo or not to
hope. I might answer better in a
month."
"I'll wait the month," the man read
ily said.
"Make it two months."
"Well, let it be two, then."
"Four months might be better yet."
"Make it, dear, just as you will. I
am content if only in the end you will
be mine."
So it was decided that at the end of
four months she would give ier an
swer, yes or no, to his suit, or whether
he might hope or whether it was hope
less. This was February Juno might
witness the making of one life or it
might no.
While James Ellis was content to
wait, he was not hopeful. He was only
"Jimmy" to Julio. Jimmy, the boy
the playmate with the pretty face and
a woman's voice. Julia wished a man
for her husband, representative of
manhood and strength. He feared the
decision. The ' time crept on fast ;
weeks had flown, a month passed.
There was no change in Julia's feel
ings that he could detect.
It was in the latter part of March
that, in the dead of night, a fire-alarm
was sounded. Men sprang from their
beds, jumped into their clothes. It
was a oountry town in which every
man aud many women were needed to
fight the dread fiend. It was soon dis
covered that a weather-boarded dwelling-house
had taken tiro, at the roof
When the crowd reached thehoiiBethe
top of it was wrapped in flumes. James
Ellis was among the first on the ground.
It was thought that every soul had left
the house. There wasa terrible scream.
In the second story room, by the blaze
of the fire, could ba seen a woman.
The blood froze in the men's faces
as they looked at the awful scene.
They looked at each other, then back
at the woman. Who would make a
move to save her? Like a flash James
Ellis rushed toward the house, kicked
open the door, disappeared, fought bis
way through tho smoke and heat iu
the second story until he reached the
woman. He dauhod out a window and
helped her to the ladder that had been
raised.
As the crowd watched James Ellm
disappeared. Another second and
there was a fall of heavy timber into
the house; a column of sparks went
upward. Seconds passed. The lire
was making headway rapidly. James
Ellis had not appeared. At last anxi
ous watchers crept into the houso and
came upon the body of Ellis lying at
the bottom of the stairs. He had boen
knocked down by the falling timber.
Tho fire had nut reached tho plucu
where he was lying.
He was tenderly picked up, carried
out of the house and to his home. The
fulling timber had struck him in the
face, cutting and tearing grout gathes
the whole length. The hot embers of
the wood had burned great red blotches
along the wouud.
It was only after weeks of rr.:eful
nursiug by the faithful aunt tliut
James Ellis was pronounced well. He
had recovered from the wouud to full
into a fever. It uas Juno when the
doctor told him hu had done all ho
could for him, that itwnS for him how
to grow in strength. It was not until
that time that James fully realized
that A great chnnge had takeri placo.
"Jimmy with the baby face Was it
thing of the past. There was an ugly
scar on the forehead, another On the
chin ond one on tho check. There
were red patches where he had been
burned. Hd was no longer pretty.
He was ugly, yet not repulsively so
no uglier than many other men. With
the fever had also gone the woman's
voicei It was now like that of other
men.
It was four months' since that day in
February that he decided to Ventura
out. He Waited until it was dusk.
Then he made his way td the hotne of
Julio. He was ushered into the porlor,
where a half-light burned. In a mo
ment Julia came, coming quickly to
see her "Jimmy" the much-talked of
and admired hero of the night of the
fire and to congratulate him on his
recovery. She rushed up to him, and
taking his outstretched hand, ex
claimed :
"Oh, Jim " stopping, startled as
she looked in his face, then stammer
ing, continued: "Beg pardon Mr.
Ellis I'm so glad to see you !"
The man wns surprised into formal
ity. "Mr. Ellis 1" Julia had never
addressed him thus before. What did
it mean?
As the evening passed they talked of
tho events of the past months. As he
spoke iu that low, tender, pleasing,
manly voice, Julia listened enraptured.
There were chords in her being that
were touched, and rcspondod as they
had never dono before. There was
something in her being that went out
to the man the sacred hero. At last,
in low, passionate tones he pleaded :
"Julia, darling, I hnve come for the
answer promised, that con make life
the sweetest thing on earth to me. I
have corns now to know whether I
dare hope for happiness. I'm disfig
ured now ugly, but I love yon lore
yon, if possible, more than 1 ever hove.
Can you love me?"
As he hold her in his arms, Julia,
tenderly caressing the scars with the
tips of her fingers, whispered :
"These don't disfigure you, deor.
Yon are not ugly to mo. " Frank Les
lie's Weekly.
Imitation American Physicians.
American medical missionaries are
now very popular in China. They are
everywhere welcome, more especially
because they offer medical advice and
medicine gratis, prefaced with re
ligious exercises. The Chinese op
pear to appreciate this kind of practi
cal religion. In a recent letter to the
Missionary Herold, Doctor Chopin
tells of his missionary successes in the
vicinity of Pang Cliuang, and soys:
"On this trip I learned for the first
time that there ore in this part of
China a number of 'counterfeit' for
eigners. I was myself token to be one
of that class because of an ability to
make myself understood in Chinese.
It seems that one or more enterpris
ing celestials have gone into the work
of dispensing medicines of tor the man
ner of the American, physician. Usu
ally two or three men go together.
One of these dresses in foreign cos
tume and talks a gibberish which is
not understood by the notives, and so
posses for a foreign language. In
imitation of American physicians, all
medicine is given away, but, unlike
that fraternity, the bogus representa
tive of America is quite willing to re
ceive contributions of grain to feed the
animal which helps convey him from
village to village. In consequence
grain pours in upon him by the quan
tity. This is disposed of by a confed
erate at the nearest fair, aud then Ah
Sin departs for 'fresh fields and pas
tures new.'"
The Great Game of the Chinese.
Weichi is the greatest game of the
Chinese, especially with tho literary
class, and is ranked by them superior
to chess. Like chess, this gome is of
a general military and mathematical
character, but is ou a much more ex
tended scale, the board containing 261
places and employing nearly 200 men
on a side. All of the men, however,
have the same volue and powers. The
object is to command as many places
ou tho board as possible. This may
bo done by inclosing empty spaces, or
surrounding the enemy's men. Very
close calculation is always essential in
order that a loss in one region may be
met by gains in another, thus employ
ing skillful stragey when the contest
ants are evenly matched. The game
has come down from great antiquity,
being first mentioned in Chinese writing
about t)25 B. 0. It was in all proba
bility introduced by the Babylonian
astronomers, who were at that time in
structors of oil tho East. Chicago
Herald.
Au Educated Snake,
A cow belonging to John II. Suave
ly, a farmer living two miles south of
Shnrpuburg, was observed to stop and
bellow regularly at a large true iu the
hi no, while the cattle were being driven
from tho field. Homo boys watched
her one day and observed a large black
suuke approach and milk the cow.
Driving her home they told Philip
Lumm, who works ou the farm, who
got into the tron with a gun aud waited
for results. When the cows came from
tho fluid this particular cow stopped at
the tree and bellowed, wheu the snake
appeared and was shut by Lumm. -Aulietam
Valley (Col. ) Ilooord.
Kooslers vs. Weasel,
A weasel snoakod out of his lair near
Htroudsburg Wednesday aud gobbled
up one of Mrs. Joseph Frymire's little
chickens. Two bantam roosters were
near by and they set upon the thiev
ing beuut with such vigor that both his
eyes were picked out, and ho died soon
atterwatd, Philadelphia ltuoord.
FORETELLING A TORNADO.
SOW THE WEATHER BtTRHAU
WARNS THE ENTIRE COUNTRT.
The Methods ted to Announce the
Recent Terrible" Blorm In Iowa
Trtheri as an Kxample.
T
THE signftl achievement of the
, . !v . 1 1) ,
overmilt'Ut ticaimri uiurmi
in predicting the recent dis-
astrons tornadoes in Iowa
twenty-four notlfs in advance of their
awful visitations has boilght into new
prominence the remarkable! accuracy
with which in these doys of Advanced
science a weather forecast can be made.
The prediction of the Iowa tornado
Offers a noteworthy example of the
value of tho Government Bureau, and
illustrates the perfection of the system
it employs, but the forecast in point of
accuracy is duplicated daily. It isn't
every day that a tornado storts on a
wild stompedc, but tho weather sharps
ore expected to keep the cities and
towns of the country posted in advance
in regard to the weather. The doily
forecast has become on oil-important
element in all calculations, whether of
pltosure or of business, and could no
more be dispensed with than the tele
graph or any of the other agencies
which have revolutionized affairs. As
so much depends upon these predic
tions it is not surprising that the
burean has reached a high grode of
efficiency.
If on English or a French weather
sharp were assigned to our bureau he
would probably be as confused as the
average man on seeing a three-ring
circus for the first time. It is not on
uncommon circumstance for tho
Weother Bureau to chase half a dozen
different varieties of storms over the
country in a day. It may be hailing
in North Dakota, a tornado may be
making Bod havoc in the Western
farming belt, a windstorm may bo
bowling along the Atloutic cosst, im
perilling shipping, and four or five
thunder-Btorms may bo creating alarm
in as many different sections.
With all these complications, a
short, thick-set man, with gray eye
brows ond gray mustache, calmly looks
over the maps which are made on the
reports of one of the Government ob
servers throughout the country, and
figures out just the kind of weather
that moy be expected in every State
and section. This short, thick-set
man, with gray eyebrows ond gray
mustache, is the official who, on ex
amining tho mops on the night of July
5, paused for a moment, and then, to
the surprise of his assistants, mur
mured : "This looks like a tornado."
Major Dunwoody was the officer
who read the signs aright. The Gov
ernment observers at Sioux City, Des
Moines, la., Keokuk and Oraahn, hail
all reported threatening atmospherio
conditions, and their reports, when re
duced to tracings on the maps, showed
that the centre of the utmospherio dis
turbances was at Cheyenne, with the
winds racing from all four points of
the compass toward tho Wyoming
capital. Major Dunwoody hos had
an intimate acquaintance with Btorms
for years, ond this tornado didn't fool
him by pretending to rendezvous at
Cheyenne. Tho Major is on old army
officer, who understands all about
Hank mcvements, and he began to
figure out where the main attack might
be expected.
He was sitting on a high stool in the
forecasting room at the Weather Bu
reau, calculating on tho tornado's prob
able evolution. The Major read the
report of the storm sentinels at Sioux
City ond Des Moines over again, and
then drew a circle, with the centre at
Cheyenne and the circumference to
wards the East, touching Davenport.
The Major s experience taught him that
the most trouble might be expected in
the southeast segment of the circle,
and before 9 o'clock tliut night all the
observers who furnished the ularmilig
reports were instructed by wire to send
out warnings to cities and towns on
the respective sections, and orders
were also given to employ every means
to inform the country districts of the
impending peril.
Hours before the storm broke with
its terrible fury express trains running
through the isolated communities had
carried the bureau's intelligence, and
those who lived far from tho railroad
station were warned by whistles, which
were blown according to an established
and well-understood code.
How quickly all this was accom
plished illustrates tho efficiency of the
Government system, as directed by
Chief Harrington. At 8 o'clock on the
night of the 6th the observations were
made, and on hour later Major Dun
woody, with quick judgment, based on
long experience, had located the storm,
and had sent out a forecast to the
threatened community, telling of the
dangers to be feared. How much
greater might hove been the damage to
property, and how much greater the
loss of life, but for the warnings !
Tho Weather Bureau did not an
nounce thut a toruado might bo ex
pected, as tornado prediction went out
of fuvor with tho young army lieuten
ants. The warning, as sent out, was
to the effect that severe local thunder
storms were threatened, and the far
mers knew full well what was meant.
Ah interpreted by them, it signified
that a ground cellar would bo a good
placo iu which to spend July fi. New
York World.
One Hundred Years Old, Still iu Practice
Doctor De Bossy, of Havre, France,
has passed his hundredth year. Ho is
still in active practice, and ut a dinner
given in honor of his hundredth birth
day, ho mode a speech iu which he
stated that his father hud lived a hun
dred and seven, and he intended to do
the same. .
English farmers furnished the
United States lust year 1,000,1X10
worth of picLlos,
BOOH I
i.
On afternoon, when baby boy has bad '
splendid nap,
And sits, like any monarch on his throne, In
nurse's lap,
In some such wise my handkerchief I hold
before my face.
And cautiously and quietly I move about the
place ;
Then, with a cry. I suddenly expose my face
to view,
And yon should hear him laugh and crow,
when I say "Booh !"'
Sometimes Hint rascal tries to make bellevft
that he Is scared,
And. really, whn I first began he stared'
and stared nnd stared ;
And then his nnder lip came out and farther
out It came,
Till mamma and tbe nure agreed It was m
"cruel shame"
But now what does that same wee todling,
lisping baby do
But laugh and kick his little heels when I
say "Booh !"
He laughs and kicks his little heels in rsp-1
turous glee, ond then
In shrill, despotic troble bids me "do it all
aden !"
And I of course I do it ; for, as his progen
itor. It is such pretty, pleasant play as this that I
am for !
And it is, bh, such fun ! and I am surs that I
shall rue
The time wheu we are both too old to pis
the game of "booh V
Eugene Field, in Chicago Record '
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
A tea party An old maid. Truth."'
The time to burn o letter is before
it is mailed. Galveston News.
Every man has his price, except
those that are worth buying. Puck.
The difference between marbles and
billiards is about ten years in the ago
of tho ploy. Puck.
A deaf man cannot be legally con
victed. It is unlawful to convict a
man without a hearing. Sittings.
Father-in-law "I am ruined : all is
lost." Son-in-law "Ahem ! Then I
married for love, after oil !" Tit-Bits.
If thore were no groat fools in tha
world, wo wouldn't be neorly so well
satisfied with ourselves os we are.
Tuck.
"She never told her love." But if
he didn't get wind . of it, it was no
fault ' of the busy-bodies. Boston
Transcript.
A minister who was given a match
sealed in an envelope for a wedding fea
made light of the imposition. Phila
delphia Record.
"Did Bilkem leave anything when
ho died?" "Yes; his creditors.
They're tho worst left lot you over
sow." Buffalo Courier.
The fool seeketh to pluck the fly
from tho mulo's hind leg, but the wise
man lotteth the job to tho lowest bid
der. Memphis Appeal.
Applicant "Will there be a chance
to get up in the world?" Proprietor
"At half-post three in the morning."
Koto Field's Washington.
She "I wonder why they call theo
angel sleeves?" He "What olsa
could they be called when you wear
them?" Indianapolis Journal.
No one can appreciate the value of
a match as can tho smoker who lives
in o houss that iu lighted by electrio
light and heated by steam. Life.
Hhe "Am I tho first girl you eveu
proposed to, darliug?" He (sinoerely)
"So ; but you oro tho only girl who
ever accepted mo." Brooklyn Life.
Friend "You don't take any out
ing in the summer, I suppose?" Ica
mau "Well, no; that's whon I have
my innings, you kuow." Dotroit Tri
buuo. "I have a notion to poke you in the
face," said the boy to the banana.
"What fuce?" asked the banana. "My
face," said the boy. Indianapolis Sen
tinel. Philosophers go about saying thi
is woman's age. According to bar own
account woman denies it douics hay
ing any age; she is always young.
Flaming Sword.
"How do yon like your new lady
help, Mrs. Todgers." "I should like
her a good deal more, Mrs. Bodgora,
if she was a little less tho lady and a
little more of a help." Tid-Bits.
Novelist "I'd like to have my
heroine do something absolutely
unique 1" Friend "Ves? Why don't
you have her faint whoa there's no
one looking." Detroit Tribune.
Tramp "Con you assist me along
tho rood, mum?" Lady of the House
"Personally, I cnunot; but I will
uuehaiu my dog, and I know ho will
bo most pleased to do so. " Tit-Bit.
"Aren't you in the grave-robbing
busiuess?" asked the lawyer. "My
profession, sir," responded tho wit
ness, with dignity, "is that of oxhum
atonal artist." Indianapolis Journal.
Mrs. Flockton "I wonder is it true?
People Bay that you sometimes go to
sleep over your sermous." parson
Dunloigh "People, 1 suspect, judge
mo by themselves." Boston Tran
script. "Then you think I cou never learn
to dive. I don't see why?" Professor
' My dear youug lady, you must re
member that you would have to keep
your mouth shut." Chicago Inter
Ocean. First Traveler "What is your busi
ness?" Second Traveler (haughtily)
"I am a gentleman, sir." First
Traveler "Indeed! How long have
you been out of work?" New York
Herald.
"I supposti it is quite oool in tb
Scotch Highlands, even iu summer,"
said a Pittsburger to a friend who had
been in Scotland. "Yes," the Utter
replied, "the hills wear their furzo all
the time." Pit taburg Chioiiuile.