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VOL. XXVI. NO. 25.
TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCT. 11, 1893.
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Wandering bicycle ridern havo lately
caused a vost increase in tho business
of wayside iuus.
Tho Forestry Department of India
in successfully naturalizing the mahog
uuy troo in Bangalore.
Labrador, a country which wo al
ways associate with Arctic snowdrifts,
icebergs, etc., had 900 species of
flowering plants, fifty-nino fcrim nnd
over 250 species of mosseB und licheliH.
Handkerchiefs woro first inndo for
tho market nt Paisley, Scotland, in
1743, nnd hi 'Id for nbout 81 each. Lust
year it is computed that 80,000,000
dozen were sold in tho United States.
Many Germnns aro leaving Kansas
and nettling in Maryland. Tho grunt
West has been ovor-boomod, nnd thou
sands of people want to get away, says
tho Atlanta Constitution in explana
tion. An English woman of great wealth
claims that tho clergy pay so much at
tention to tho poor that oho could not
get on to attend hor husband when
ho needed spiritual consolation. Sho
admits a great deal, is tho comment of
tho Atlanta Journal.
Venice is in hopes of reviving her
ancient niaritimo prosperity. Im
portant .harbor-works havo been going
on for the last twenty years to form
tho "Lido Port," which probably will
beendy for vessels next year, although
the works will not bo concluded till
18'J5.
Once in St. Paul, Minn,, a$1.50-a-day
laborer had lung trouble. He
went to Bontheru California nnd began
keopiug bees. Last year ho sold
$10,000 worth of honey. Bees do well
iu Southern California, for flowers
bloom at all seasons, and they keep on
laying np honey for tho winter that
never comes. Great joko on "tho bees,
isn't it?
Tho Western Tobaoco Journal ad
duces figures to show that tho annual
pcr-capita consumption of manufac
tured tobacco iu this country, on a
basis of 05,000,000 population, is five
and one-third pounds, costing not less
' than $5 at retail. No other country
approaches tho United Btates in tho
amount and value of tobacco consumed
per capita.
Tho wheat outturn will not exceed
443,000,000 bushels, according to tho
American Agriculturist's own reports,
and of its interpretations of Govern
ment returns, compared to 611,000,
000 as tho average for tho last two
seasons ami 400,000,000 bushels in
1890. Nearly 2,500,000 less acres
were devoted to wheat than last year,
und .tho bulk of this decrease was in
tho surplus States, which bill fair to
havo 78,000,000 fewer bushels than
last year, and 125,000,000 bushels un
der tho surplus States' product of
1891.
Prince Bismarck mado a suggestive
statement in his address to an organi
zation of schoolmasters. Ho drew a
comparison between tho French and
tho German Bystems of education,
showing the bearing of the latter in
the unity and strength of tho Nation.
Ho dislikes the French system because
it inculcates "National vanity and
ignorance of the geography aud history
of other Nations." No Nation excels
Germany in its educational system, nnd
the ex-Chancellor well knows the ad
vantago of making tho Gorman school
"a specific institute, like a corps of
officers."
Groat excitement prevails in Franco
owing to tho discovery that, of tho
twonty-eight companies which own the
various submarine cables which en
circle tho globe as with an iron net,
no less than niueteeu are English, and
that during the recent troubles iu con
nection with Siam tho dispatches ad
dressed to tho French Government
from the far east were read Bud known
at tho English Foreign Office several
hours before their delivery iu Paris.
France is, in fact, entirely dependent
upon Englibh companies for cable com
munication with her various colonial
dependencies, including even Tunis,
and actually goes so far as to grant a
State subsidy of 8li0,000 per annum to
tho English "African Direct Telegraph
Company," whose lines she is obliged
to use iu order to reach her possessions
on the west coast of Africa. Of the
twenty-eight cable companies only two
are French, one Danish, three North
American aud three South American.
Indued, of tho 125,000 miles of sub
marine cable which constitute tho sub
marine telegraphic system of tho world,
more than three-quarters are iu tho
bauds of tho English, w ho aro placed
thereby iu a singularly advantageous
position with respect to other nationalities.
From Chicago comes a loud protest
ngainst stroet parados, which ore char
acterized as a nuisanco.
Old English silverware is much in
demand in tho United St ates just now,
and genuino pieces, especially those of
historic intorost, fetch high prices.
Weather forecasts in Great Britain
grow moro accurate every year, and
the metoorological council anuounco
with pri do that eighty-four per cent,
of thoso given last year word success
ful. Throo yoars ago nearly seventeen
per cent, of tho storm warnings were
not fulfilled, but now the rato has
fallen to soven per cent.
Tho park policemen of San Francisco
uso tho lnriat to stop runaway horses,
and nil aro exports with tho ropo. Tho
Captain of tho Golden Gate Pnrk squad
says his men "can stop horso within
a distance of fifty yards without tho
f lightest danger to themselves," and
ho implies, though he doesn't distinctly
say so, without danger to tho ruuaway
or its rider.
Tho Chineso aro- the most lightly
taxed pooplo in tho world. They havo
no Chancellor of tho Exchequer wor
ried over budget-making. All the
land there belongs to tho State, and a
trifling sum per acre, never altered
through long centuries, is paid as
rent. This is the only tax iu tho
country, and it amounts to about $5
per head yearly.
Two little girls, Gertrudo and Ethel
Hedgcr, who aro wards in chancery
and heiresses to 3100,000 each, wore
recently arraigned as vagrants in a
London police court. Their fortunes
aro so Bocurely locked up in chancery
that by no process of law can any of
tho money bo obtaiucd until tho chil
dren aro of ago. They ore at present
practically destitute, nnd unable to
procuro decent surroundings, clothing
or education.
Tho beauty 61 tho elm is more than
skin deep, says the Now York Post, and
a high light of forestry gives it tho first
rank as a shade tree, both for streets
and parks, because it is likewise strong,
vigorous, and can be grown ihso many
places. Tho leaves are so tough that
dust has little eflcct on them. Certain
kinds of maples also have a good stand
ing for shade, beauty, aud rapid
growth, though the soft maplo is use
less for heavy shade. Oak trees, tho
English and tho Turkish, though rarely
seen as shado trees iu our streets, tako
high rank for that use.
Soys the New York Tribune : "It
may not be flattering to our vanity,
but it is a fact, novortholess, that
Europe does not tako nearly as much
interest in America as America takes
in Europe. This has long been indi
cated by tho paucity of American
nows in the European press ; and it is
now forcibly brought to our attention
by tho iudifTcrouco of Europe to tho
greatest Exposition that has ever been
held. The average European classes
tho United States with Australia,
Madagascar, South Africa and other
out-of-the-way countries, whose do
ings can- havo no possible interest for
him. This being so, tho wonder is
not that thero havo been so few Euro
pean visitors to tho Fair, but that auy
ono in this couutry should havo ex
pected them to come."
As a result of his investigations, Pro
fessor McCook estimates tho army of
tramps in tho United States at 45,845.
Practically all of them are in tho prime
of lifo and in good health, with noth
ing to prevent them from earning a
livelihood, three-fifths of them having
trades by which to support themselves,
and nine-tenths able to read and write.
And yet thoy aro loafers and non-producers,
refusing to assume the obliga
tions of citizenship, and aro a lucre
burden to society. At a conservative
estimate, their maintenance costs tho
public $3.50 a week, eighty-four cents
of which is spent for spirits and to
bacco ; aud if to this is added police
und hospital charges, tho expense is
increased to 4.40 a week, as much as
it costs to support the most dangerous
criminal. Tho aggregate sum thus
required to keep tho tramp army in
motion is SO, 109,000 a year, a sum
double the cost of the Indian bureau,
and more than ouo-quarter of tho an
nual interest of tho publie debt.
Worso thau this, tho army is a con
stant menace to public morals and
publio health, the greater that it is al
ways iu motion, in that of those who
are ill by far tho larger proportion
suffer from exceedingly loathsome and
contagious diseases. The tramp evil
is thus a most pressing one, not only
because of its demoralizing effects up
on industry, but because of tho moral
aud physical dangers to which it ex
poses the working population.
SWINO HIGH AND SWING LOW.
Swing high and swing low, whilo thebroczo
thoy blow
It 'b off for a sailor thy father would go :
And It's horo In the harbor, in sight of tho
Ron,
Ho hath left his woo babo with my song
and with me :
"Rwlng high and swing low,
While tho brooKOB they blow !'
Swing high and iwlng low, whilo thebroezea
they blow
It's oh for tho waiting as woary days go !
And It's oh for tbo boartocbu that smltoth
mo when
I Blng my Bong over and ovor again s
"Swing high and swing low.
While tho broozos thoy blow !"
"Swing high and swing low " thesonslngeth
so,
And It walleth anon In Its ebb and Its flow ;
And a sloeper sloops on to that Bong of the
sea,
Nor rocketh ho ovor of mlno or of mo I
"Swing high and swing low,
Whilo th bronzes thoy blow
'Twos off for a sailor thy father would go !'
Eugene Field, In Chicago Herald.
A LOVE LETTER,
BY B. A. WEISS.
QUIRE MADDOX
sat at broakfast,
reading tho leading
county nowspaper,
and choking with
toast nnd indigna
tion at a fierce ed
itorial attack npon
his own political
Tiart.v.
"Confounded
i ViiR-Sin' nonsense an d i d -
iocy !" ho exclaimed,
at length, as he con
temptuously tossed aside tho paper.
"Here, Eva, child, another cup of
coffee !"
As his daughter received tho empty
cup, ho noticed something of an ex
pression of sadness on her usually
bright face, and his conscience re
proached him as being the cause of it.
Since tho death of his wife, whom he
had tenderly loved, his daughter had
boon dearer to him than anything on
earth, and ho did not liko to see her
looking unhappy.
"What ia tho day's programme,
Evie?" ho asked, quite mildly.
"Hadn't you better drive down with
mo to Chester and see the Lyne girls
while I call on my lawyer?"
"No, thank you, papa. The Lyne
girls are coming here to tea and cro
quet this afternoon."
"Ah! And who havo you to meet
them?"
Eva's hand was a littlo uneteody as
she poured out the coffee, and her
aunt, Miss Maddox, quietly answered
for her :
"Young Mr. Moffit and his sister,
and tho Harmon girls and Jack Biver
ton, and Mr. Patton will bring a
friend with him."
The tquire's brow darkened.
"Wasn't Jack Biverton here yester
day?" "No, not yesterday."
"Woll, tho day before then. Seems
to mo ho is always hero. Pity his
father don't keep him more closely to
his desk in his office, or that ho can't
find oomo other place than my house
in which to pass his superabundant
leisure. And I don't see," he added,
lrritubly "I don't see why ho should
have boon invited here, when 1 have
already expressed my objection to
him."
"He is not particularly invited, "his
sister answered. "It is only the sec
ond meeting of our little croquet club
all that we can find to amuso us in
this dull country neighborhood. And,
of course, you can't blamo him for
coming with tho rest."
Eva's soft, dark eyes had filled with
tears.
"Papa," sho said, with a little
tremor in her voice, "why do you ob
joct to Mr. Biverton? Everybody
likes him but you. "
Tho squire hesitated a full half miu
ute, as ho make a pretense of care
fully buttering his egg.
"I have nothing against tho young
man's character," he said at length,
still moro impatiently, "but I don't
like him personally that is, his ways.
I w ish to hear and see no moro of him
if possible. I object decidedly, Eva.
to your accepting tho attention which
ho has recently been paying you, and
I must request you, Matilda, not to
enoourago his visits here. "
"I am sure I don't encourage him,"
Miss Matilda replied, bristling a little,
well aware in her own mind that Mr.
Rivertou neoded no encouragement
from her. "But I can't uuderiitand,
brother, what you can find to object
to in Jack Bivertou's muuuerB. Every
one says they aro delightful, and you
never found fault with him until
lately."
"That is just ii. His innuneis have
entirely changed of late. When f. man
comes courting my daughter" this in
a very possitive tone of voiut "i like
him to uppear as a man, ai d a man of
sense and business. Ho should come
to mo in the first place and soy froukly
that ho wishoi my consent to his ad
dressing my daughter as ho er finds
that he er litis a regard for her, or
something plain and simple of that
kind. But Biverton is a ispoony, and
is making a fool of himvelf. If thero
is anything that I thoroughly despise,
it is to see a tail young fellow like that
languishing around a woman, making
sheep's eyes at her on all occasions
even in church and dawdhiig about
for hours in the moonlight, repeating
poetry and calling her darling and
dearest, aud other such bnliy names.
It's disgusting 1"
Here Eva, whose cheeks ba 1 been
gradually assuming the hue of the
damask role which was pinned at her
throat, suddenly leaned back iu hei
chair and burst into teHrs.
Sho know now that papa must hnvo
overheard that talk between herself
and Jack, when they sat in tho moon
light under tho drooping roses right
beneath his open window.
Arid she had never dreamed that pnpn
could lc mean enough no, sho would
not say that but unfeeling enough to
listen.
As sho softly cried, with her dainty
handkerchief pressed to her eyes, she
heard her father's concluding words :
"When you find a man making love
in this idiotio way, you may bo posi
tivo of one thing that the love is only
skin-deep, nnd that ho will make an
indifferent, if not a bad husband. For
this reason I object to Mr. Jack Biver
erton courting my daughter. "
That evening, in the quiet twilight
interval between tea and croquet, Eva
took ocoasion to convey to Mr. Biver
ton n warning hint of what her father
expected of them in tho future.
Jack know as did most of the
squire's acquaintances that despite a
"good heart nt bottom," tho old gen
tleman was apt to take up absurd nnd
unreasonable prejudices, and to stick
to them with tenacious obstinacy
especially when ho found himself op
posed. But on this occasion the young
man's spirit rose in high rebellion, and
it took all Eva's influence to pacify
him.
"No, Jack," she said, with a gentle
firmness, in reply to his excited re
marks, "you must not speak to papa
at present. It would only make mat
ters worso while ho is in this mood.
Wo can do nothing but wait and see if
in time ho won't yield to more reason
able improssions."
"In time!" repeated Jack, im
potiontly. "Why, Evie, he don't
change lib views on any subject within
five years' time."
"Well," sho said, with a sigh, "I
suppose we shall havo to wait, even if
it is as long as that."
One day tho Bquire( returning from
his morning ride, found his daughter
and his sister seated in the pleasant
littlo sitting-room opening upon the
garden.
Eva's whito fingers were deftly
fashioning somo rose-colored ribbons
into dainty knots and loops.
"What aro those for?" her father
inquired, as he seated himself in his
own big arm-chair and unfolded his
paper whilo glancing admiringly at tho
silken stuff.
"To wear at tho lawn party this
evening, papa. And you will go with
us, of course?"
"A lawn party? Ah, I had for
gotten! Well, where is it to bo at
the Lyens'?"
"At tho Bivertons'," Miss Maddox
said.
Ho scowled as he roughly shook out
his paper.
"I don't wish to interfere with your
pleasures or enjoyments, Evu," ho
said, "but I would rather that you
should not go to this party at the
Bivertons'."
She know thai when her father ex
pressed a wish, it was intended as a
command, and hor hands dropped
listlessly into her lap, crushing tho
crisp ribbons. Tears forced them
selves between the long lashes, and
sho presently rose and quietly loft tho
room.
Then Miss Maddock looked up from
her own work, and there was some
thing unusual in her expression.
"Archibald," sho said, gravely, "I
have something to say to you. I
would warn you not to carry this
matter too far, nor to be too hard
upon Eva and Jack Biverton, lest you
drive her into open disobedience and
even an elopement. "
"An elopement !"
His sister took from tho littlo work
box which Eva had loft on the tablo a
folded letter.
"I found this here, just where you
see that she keeps it. Perhaps I
ought not to have read it, seeing that
it is a love letter ; but, under the cir
cumstances, I consider it my duty to
let you know the contents. Will yon
read it, or shall I do so?"
Tho squire replied with a sort of
inarticulate grunt, which his sister
interpreted in her own way, anil
accordingly commenced reading,
aloud :
" 'My owa prooious angel, Eva ' "
I "Bah!" said tho squire, with an ex
pression of unutterable disgust.
" 'since a cruel and relentless fate at pres
ent forbids our meeting, 1 can but take this
unsatisfactory method of comniunieatint
with you, uud teiliug you, my owa dearest
darling, of how unspeakably aud uuutterably
dear you are to uiu. "
"The fool !" muttered the squire.
" 'Oh, uiy soul's beloved' "
"For heaven's sake, Mat ilda, spare
mo any moro of that sickening and
idiotio stuff! Why, it's worso even
that 1 would have thought Jack Biver
ton capublo of. hat were you say
ing about an elopement?"
"It in this," answered his sister,
glancing down tho page :
" 'I Hud that I cannot exist apart from
you, and siueo your unfeeling father ' "
"Humph!"
" 'will not consent to our union, w must
take our fortunes iuto our owu huutls and
defy any earthly power to keep us
aiutider.' "
'The rascal!" cried the squire,
stsrliu erect iu his chnir.
But his Histcr put out her hum),
Vjpreeutiugly.
"Hear the rest, Archibald !"
"Not another word I The idea of it
rn.vul nu l idiot liko that presuming to
court my daughter "
"But at least hcur the !ast lines:
" 'GooJ-iillit, my souTa beloved ! M;ty J
newels fun yeu to slumber Willi their fra- i
t:riU''.o-l;itlrn wmi ! and iu yur ureii-ns
thtnli of yonr ewn devoted
" 'A neuinAi.u M.'.unux.' "
Thero was a bhiuk, bewildered
psTVse.
"What does this mean, Matilda?
What letter is that ?"
His sister quietly handed it to him.
"It is one which you wrote over
twenty years ugo to the woman whom J
you loved ami married Eva Chesney.
Your daughter found it a few days ago
among somo old letters nnd papers in
the attic closet."
Tho squire looked over tho faded
and torn sheet as ono in a dream.
"I would not havo believed that I
cofild ever havo written in a stylo such
as this," ho said, in a strangely sub
dued voice.
"And yet you woro a devoted hus
band and mado your wife a happy
woman."
Ho read tho letter through, nnd a
moisture gathered in his eyes.
"Wo aro opt to forgot opt to for
get!" ho muttered, as he refolded it.
Just then Eva entered tho room.
"I must put away my work," sho
said, apologetically, and thero wero
traces of tears in her eyes.
Her father put out his hand, and
drew her gently to her former seat.
"Sit down, dear, and finish your
ribbons. I will take you over to
the Bivertons' this evening."
And Eva never knew until after hor
marriage to Jack Biverton what hod
caused so sudden a change in her
father's views and sentiments in regard
to that subject.
SCIENTIFIC AM) INDUSTRIAL.
The average woman lives longer
than tho average man.
All medical authorities hold that
fruits aro essential to prolongation of
lifo.
Attempts havo been mado to coun
terfeit meteorites, because they are so
valuable, but without success.
According to tho tracks found in a
stone quarry in Connecticut, a bird
with a foot eleven inches in length in
habited thoso parts.
Dr. Brown-Sequord says that press
ing in the neighborhood of tho ear, es
pecially in front of the right one, will
stop a fit of coughing.
Tho hydrographio office at Washing
ton is disposed to attribute the heat
and drought in Europe this season to
the scarcity of icobergs in tho North
Atlantic.
Tho Chicago Common Council has
empowered tho Mayor of tho city to
negotiate for tho erectiou of garbage
crematories of a capacity of 100,000
tons a day.
Criminals aro usually of weak phys
ical organization. In 1885 sixty
seven per cent, of the men in French
prisons and sixty per cent, of tho
women were sent to tho hospital at
some time during tho period of incar
ceration. Tho narrowest part of tho Strait of
Florida, through whioh the Gulf
Stream flows at tho rato of five knots
an hour, is fifty miles wide, and has a
mean depth of 850 fathoms. If this
wero stopped up tho climate of this
country in winter would bo totally
changed.
A recently constructed submarino
bout, destined for tho French Navy, is
moved by electricity, carries a crow of
twelve men, and can remain under
water for two hours. It is plannod to
lodgo under an enemy's vessel a tor
pedo powerful enough to break a big
steamer in two.
A. D. Bisteen, in a recently pub
lished paper in the Astronomical Jour
nal on a new method for determining
tho direction of tho sun's motion
through space, concludes that ho has
obtained results which not only show
the reality of suoh motion, but that
its rate is 10.9 miles per second.
fter two years' trial with pine, oak
and greenheart in the Suez Canal Com
pany's arsenal basin at Port Said, it
has been found that whilo tho pine
and oak are almost entirely destroyed
by tho "taret," or borer worm, tho
greenheart has. suffered no injury
whatever. This wood is a native of
British Guiana.
Experiments with a bicycle fitted out
with a small chemical tank and fire axe
aro being made by a South Boston fire
company. The bicycle has cushion
tires and with its whole outfit weighs
about sixty pounds. The tank holds
about two gallons of chemical, which
amounts as an extinguisher to ubout
twelve pails of water.
It is popularly supposed that tho
sudden downpour which usually fol
lows a bright flash of lightning is iu
some way caused by the flash. Me
teoroU gists have proven that this is
not the case, and that, exactly to tho
contrary, it is not only possible but
highly probable that the sudden in
creased precipitation is the real cause
of the flash.
A Curious ludlau Kcllc.
Not long ago thero was dug np in
Ashland a curious stone with some dim
and crude inscription upon it. It be
ing thowu to an old Oregon pioneer
he pronounced it a temauewas stone,
worn as a breastplate by tho ancient
Indian priests.
It has holes in tho upper corners by
which it may be hung upon tho priest's
neck. It carries upon it a uicturo of
the sacred wigwam, and at one end of
the wigwam stands the totem pole, on
the top of which a little flag was hung
that warned tho evil spirits off while
tho priest performed his divine func
tions in the sacred house or wigwam.
This temauewas may coincide with
the breastplate of tho Ephod, worn by
tho ancient Hebrew priests, so that
tho pieturo of tho wigwum on this
utoiio may represent the primary an
cestor of all ihe temples ever dedi
cated iu the world, and all flags uud
liberty poles of all oges uud countries
may possibly be the lineal descendants
of th'J original totem represented on
the stone. Probably this Ashland
stone is tho only one of the kind now
iu existence. Ashland (Oregon) Tid-i'ib's-
Of the 206,000,000 natives of India
but 2,000,000 cau speak Kuglish, the
language of tho rulura.
HUNTING FOR BIG GAME.
THE PERILS OF ELEPHANT SHOOT
ING IN SOUTH AFRICA.
Iiovrs for the Protection of F.lcphant-
Tho Heaviest Tusk In tho Wortti
at the Fair.
1ynE heaviest elephant tusk in
j tho world, so far as known, is
ot tho World's Fair in tho
Capo Colony exhibit. It is
seven and a half feet long and weighs
158 pounds. At tho thickest part it is
about six inches through. The mate to
it, which is a littlo lighter, is iu tho
museum at Capo Town. Thero is an
elephant tusk larger than this, be
longing to tho King of Siam, but it is
not so heavy.
Tho elephant who enrried these
monstrous tusks moro than 800
pounds of ivory, or twice tho weight
of an average man was killed in the
Zambesi country, South Africa, somo
years ago.. Ho was about fourteen feet
high and was a genuino king of tho for
est who would havo dwarfed Jumbo
himself.
Elephant hunting is the first of oil
sports with tho gun, but tho slaughter
of thoso great animals haB been so pro
digious since tho Arabs and other
traders have sold breach-loading rifles
to tho tribes throughout Africa, that
many fear their speedy extermination.
However, Bobcrt Lee, who is ono of
tho men in charge of the Capo Colony
exhibit, and who has traveled much in
the elephant country, thinks that tho
groat beast will hold on for many gen
erations yet. Africa is so vast, many
regions ore so difficult of access, and
tho elephant is bo tenacious of life, ho
says, that man cannot kill all his tribo
as ho has slaughtered the buffalo in
America.
"Elephant hunting is extremely
dangerous," said Mr. Lee. "I know
of no other sport iu which t he hunter
is so liablo to become tho hunted. I
am not a sportsman myself, nnd I
have never tried to kill an elephant,
but I was oncowithotherswho thought
they would accomplish such a feat.
"In 1887 I accompanied Colonel
Carrington's expedition into tho coun
try north of tho Transvaal. Whilo rid
ing along through an open country
wo saw a hord of elephants. I think
thero were about twenty of them. Wo
ciimo close enough for a shot. The
Colonel called for his elephant gun
and blazed away at tho elephants. In
stantly tho wholo hord darted toward
us, trumpeting fiercely ond really
presenting a most terrifying appear
ance. Nono of us paused for another
shot, but turned our horses and gal
loped away as fast as we could, tho
elephants in full chase. So for an we
knew, tho Colonel's bullet had missed
entiroly.
"My horso was not nn especially
good ono, and 1 brought up tho rear of
that flying column. An elephant, de
spite his awkward appearance, can run
very fast, and I began to think of my
sins. My horso stepped into n hole.
stumbled, fell and threw mo over his
head. I wasn't much hurt, and I
jumped to my feet instantly and seized
tho horse's reins. Tho animal wasn't
much hurt, either, and I got him to
his feet and was on his bad; and oil
again in about fifteen seconds, I think.
I don't know how close tho elephants
were to mo when I fell, for I never
looked back, I overtook tho rest of tho
party, and when wo stopped tho ele
phants were to bo eeeu no longer.
People who are fond of n chase with
plenty of danger in it should hunt the
elephant. I don't care for it inysolf."
Mr. Leo Bays ho has seen many herds
of elephunts along tho Zambesi River,
and thoy are still more plentiful further
north. Though Capo Colony ban been
settled about as long as tho United
States, there aro still somo elephants
in a portion of its mountainous region,
known as tho Kuysoi country. They
are supposed to bo about five hundred
in number, and protected by tho Gov
ernment. Elephants aro said to grow larger
south of the Zambesi than north of it.
There aro considerable herds in tho
couutry of Kuhma, King of tho Bow
longs. This man is tho most advanced
of all tho South African kings or
chiefs. He bus provided a set of game
laws for his couutry, aud they are
rigidly enforced. Hence iu the large
territory over which ho rules the ele
phants are increasing in numbers
rather than diminishing. Khama, nat
urally a man of good disposition, is
largely under the influence of a Pres
byterian missionary, a Scotchir.an,
and a very enlightened and a humane
man.
"I know Khama very well," said
Mr. Lee, "as I accompanied ono of tho
expeditious of the English into his
couutry. He is a remarkable mau in
appearance, as well as in character.
He is at least six feet four inches tall.
aud enormously fat. He received us
kindly uud usked us many questions.
Ho was greatly pleased with our
clothes, aud discarded his African at
tire in favor of a suit like ours."
Proper Sitting Position.
"A nrooer sitting noMifion " mat-u
solpelindv. "remrlreH tluif tlm unit...
shall be kept straight, aud that the
support needed for tho upper part of
tho body shall be felt iu the right
idiLce Tlierefi ire uit us fur liuolf
possible iu the chair, so that the lower
; .1. .11 ii.. i i . i
run ui iiiu noiuu Milan nu Itraooil at lUO
Dacn ol mo seut. ew lork times.
Itig Calilorula Itoses.
N. W. Scudder has upon his desk a
mammoth rose of the lloticha Concha
variety. It measures six inches across,
while exactly two feet of tape is re
quired to find tho circumference.
This extru largo specimen was grown
upon a bush which has yielded some
forty blossoms almost us largo us this
one. Petuluma (CaL) Courier,
FOR LOVE'S SAKE.
Ayo love me, sweet, with all thy heart,
Thy mind, thy soul, nnd all thou art
Anil hnp'st to bo lovo mo with lovo
Thnt nn'uftht beneath tho hoavnns may move ;
Yet say not wlmrofore ; say not why
Thou lovost since In thoso do Ho
Tho Boods of death to Lov, but say,
Thou lovest, and must lovo alway I
For ihould'st thou lovo somo witching graco
Of word or manner, form or face
Should thy hoart's worship thus bo bought
Uy any gift that Timo hnth wrought.
So art thou false to Love's pure creed,
And like to fall In sorest now! :
But love for Love's dear sake, I pray.
Then shalt thou lovo me, sweet, alway !
Zllclla Cocke, in Lippineott'S.
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
It is thyme that makes tho old man
eage.
Well done Tho farmer who falls in
with bunko men. Philadelphia Coll.
The quickest way of smoothing rough
characters is to iron them. Texas
Sittings.
Many a fond parent does not get to
sleep until after tho bnwl is over.
Boston Globe.
Even when the acrobat ia bending
tho crab on the front lawn he is, figura
tively speaking, on tho back stoop.
Detroit Free Press.
Geography Teocher "Tommy, how
is tho earth divided?" Tommy "Er,
not at all ; cause everybody most wants
it oil." Chicago Inter-Ocean.
"Smith's business is going along liko
clockwork." "Pooh, his place is in
tho hands of a receiver." "That's it,
being wound up." Chicago Inter
Ocean. Pinkie "Funny thing about Not
rich and his new piano. " Danklo
"Is, eh?" Pinkie "Yes; plays it by
ear and pays for it by note." Buffalo
Courier.
Arrival "Can I put up at this
house?" Clerk "I suppose so. Got
any baggage?" Arrival "No." Clerk
"How much do you want to put up?"
Detroit Free Press.
Mrs. Jones "Is your wifo at home,
Mr. Wilbur?" Wilbur "Not certuin,
but if you'll hold that Bcreon door
opeu half a minute you'll hear from
her." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Tho Consolation of Matrimony : Sho
"I suppose you would havo been
happier if you had not married mo?"
Ho "Yes, darling, but I wouldn't
have known it." Life's Calendar.
Prisoner "But I would rather tell
my own story. Don't you think it
would bo believed?" Lawyer "Yes.
that's tho trouble. It would carry
conviction with it." Harlem Lifo.
"You seem to liko tho Colonol,
Uncle Mose?" "Yes, sail ; he's so
gentlemanly, sab!" "Gentlemanly, in
what way?" "With his money, sail,
with his money." Buffalo Courier.
Tenor "Sir, this musie is a tritla
too high for me." . Manager "Let us
take it a note lower." Tenor "Oh,
half a note would do." Manager
(solemnly) "Here, sir, wo never do
things by halver !" Tit-Bits.
Mr. Baldboy (smiling kindly) "Tho
waves are using you rudely. Will you
permit me to assist you to the shore?"
Miss Watorly -"Never mind, thank
you. Tho waves may bo rude, but
they are not fresh." Brooklyn Life.
Mr. Spiker (iu search of a boarding
house) "There is no limit to the diet,
I presume, madam?" Boardiug-houso
Keeper (proudly) --"No limit, sir.
During the last year five of my
boarders died from over-eating."
Tit-Bits.
"Mr. Metemau," said tho young
wifo with great severity to her butch
er, "those last eggs you sent mo were
all spoiled, and unless you chtingo
your old hens for new ones I shall bo
ohligod to trade somewhere else."
Chicago Record.
Random Observer --"Pardon me,
but what aro you putting down in
your note-book?" World's Fair Visit
or "Oh, I'm just putting down tho
things that have made an indelible im
pression upon my memory so that I
won't forget them."- Chicago Record.
Froshleigh (to stranger at a recep
tion) "Gad, this is a funny house!
I came hero to-night without an invita
tion." Stranger--"So iliil I. llow
did you come here?" Frcshleigh
"Just walked in. llow did you conio
here?" Stranger -"Just walked in.
It's my house. "- Vogue.
He was a small man, tho conductor
of an electric car, and she was a large,
powerful looking womuu. "I want
you to put me off at Concord aired,"
sho said. He viewed her majestic fig
ure for a moment, and re plied : "Mad
am, I will stop the car and let you gel
off." New York Press.
"I suppose the panic hasn't struck
you yet, Mr. Gotrox?" "It hasn't.
h? Here 1 vo got more u $10,000
that I can't get people to borrow at
all they're all afraid to go into busi
ness any deeper. If these times keeps
np a littlo longer I'll land iu the poor
house in six mouths. " Indianapolis
Journal.
A judge, in crossing the Irish Chan
nel one stormy night, knocked against
a well-known witty lawyer who was
suffering terribly from seasickness.
Can 1 do nuvthiiig for you?' said
the judge. "Ves," gasped the seasick
laivyer, "I wish your lordship would
overrule this motion." White Jlouii-
tuiuei r.
t'hollie "I hate to sav anything ill
of a dead mau, but tho doo: id lawyers
who have been looking over Tipper
ton's papers have bwouglit to lie,lit
things that shoKctl him to be n eu
tlemen." Chappie "Haw ! What did
they find?" Oliollio "Kv y time he
loaned any uioiicy to auy of tho men
in the club ho made a memuwauluui
of it." Indianapolis Journal.
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