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VOL. XXVI. NO. 25.
TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCT. 11, 1893. $1.50 PER ANNUM.
quarterly. Temporary adrertlasmaat I
b paid in adrano.
Job work -oash on delivery.
A
Wandering bicyclo riders havo lately
cansod a vast increase in tho business
of wayside iuns.
Tho Forostry Department of India
is successfully naturalizing the inahog
any troo in Bangalore.
Labrador, a country -which wo nl
ways associato with Arctio snowdrifts,
loeborgs. etc., has 000 species of
flowering plants, flfty-nino ferns and
over 250 species of mosses and lichens.
Handkerchief)) were first mado for
tho market at Paisley, Hcotland, iu
1743, and sold fur about $1 each. Last
year it is computed that 80,000,000
dozen wcro sold in tho United Htates,
Many Germans aro leaving Kansas
and Bottling in Maryland. Tho groat
West has been over-boomed, and thou
sands of people want to get away, says
tho Atlanta Constitution in explana
tion. An English woman of great wealth
claims that the clergy pay so much at
tention to the poor that ahe could not
got on to attend her husband when
ho needed spiritual consolation. She
admits a great deal, is tho comment of
tho Atlanta Journul.
Venice is in hopos of reviving her
ancient maritime prosperity. Im
portant .harbor-works have beon going
on for the last twenty years to form
tho "Lido Tort," which probably will
be eady for vessels next year, although
tho works will not bo concluded till
18D5.
Once in St. Taul, Minn,, a $1.00--day
laborer had lung trouble. Ho
went to Southern California and began
keeping boos. Last year he sold
$40,000 worth of honey. Bees do well
iu Sqnthcrn California, for flowers
bloom at all seasons, and they keep on
laying up honey for tho winter that
never cornea. Great joke on'tlio boos,
isn't it?
The Western Tobaoco Journal ad
duces figures to show that the annual
pcr-capita consumption of manufac
tured tobacco in this country, on a
basis of 05,000,000 population, is flvo
and ono-third pounds, costing not less
' than 85 at retail No other country
approaches the United States iu tho
amount and value of tobacco consumed
per capita.
Tho wheat outturn will not exoeed
443,000,000 bushels, acoording to the
American Agriculturist's own reports,
and of its interpretations of Govern
ment returns, compared to 614,000,
000 as tho averago for tho last two
seasons and 400,000,000 bushels in
1890. Nearly 2,500,000 less acros
were devoted to wheat than last year,
and .the bulk of this decrease was in
the surplus States, which bid fair to
have 78,000,000 fewer bushels than
last year, and 125,000,000 bushels un
der the surplus States' product of
1891.
Princo Bismarck made a suggestive
statement in his address to an organi
zation of schoolmasters. lie drew a
comparison between the French and
the German systems of education,
showing tho bearing of the latter in
the unity and strength of tho Nation.
He dislikes tho French system because
it ineuleates "National vanity and
ignoranoe of tho geography and history
of other Nations." No Nation excels
Germany in its educational system, and
the ex-Chauoellor well knows the ad
vantage of making tho Gorman school
"a specino institute, like a corps of
officers. "
Great excitement prevails in France
owing to tho discovery that, of tho
twenty-eight companies which own the
various submarine cables which en
circle tho globe as with an iron net,
no less than nineteen are English," and
thut during the recent troubles in con
nection with Siam the dispatches ad
dressed to the French Government
from the far east wore read aud known
at ihe English Foreign Office several
hours before their delivery in Paris.
France is, in fact, entirely dependent
upon English compuuies for cable com
munication with her various colonial
dependencies, including even Tunis,
and actually goes so fur as to grant a
State subsidy of $(50,000 per annum to
the 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.
Indeed, of tho 125,000 miles of sub
marine cable which constitute tho sub
marine telegraphic system of the world,
more than three-quarters are in the
hands of the English, who are placed
thereby iu a singularly advantageous
position with respect to other nationalities.
From Chicago comes a loud protest
against street parados, which are char
actcrized as a nuisance
uui tnclisii silverware is much in
domand in tho United States just now,
and genuine pieces, especially those of
historio interest, fetch high prices.
Weathor forecasts in Great Britain
grow more acenrato every year, and
the meteorological council announce
with pride that eighty-four per cent.
of thoso givon last year woro' suocoss-
fuL Throe years ago nearly seventeen
per cent, of the storm warnings were
not fulfilled, but now tho rata has
fallen to seven per cent.
Tho park policemen of San Francisco
use the lariat to stop runaway horses,
and all are experts with tho rope. Tho
Captain of tho Golden Goto Park squad
says his men "can stop a horso within
a distance of fifty yards without the
slightest danger to themselves," and
he implies, though he doesn't distinctly
say so, without danger to the runaway
or its ridor.
Tho Chinese are- the most lightly
taxed poople in the world. They have
no Chancellor of the Exchequer wor
ried over budget-making. All the
land there oolongs to the btate, and a
trifling sum per acre, nover alterod
through long centuries, is paid as
rent. This is tho only tax in the
country, and it amounts to about $5
per head yearly.
Two little girls, Gertrude and Ethel
Hodgor, who are wards in chancery
and heiresses to $100,000 each, were
rocently arraigned as vagrants in a
London police court. Thoir fortunes
are bo aecurely locked up iu chancery
that by no process of law can any of
the money be obtained until the chil
dron are of ago. They are at present
practically destitute, and unable to
procure dooent surroundings, clothiug
or education.
The beauty Of tho olm is more than
skin doep, says the New York Post, and
a high light of forestry gives it the first
rank as a shade tree, both for streets
and parks, because it is like wiso strong,
vigorous, and can be grown in so many
places. The leaves are so tough that
dust has little effect on them. Certain
kinds of maples also have a good stand
ing for shade, beauty, and rapid
growth, though the soft maple is use
loss for heavy shade. Oak trees, tho
English and the Turkish, though rarely
seen as shado trees in our streets, take
high rank for that nse.
Says the New York Tribune : "It
may not bo flattering to our vanity,
but it is a foot, nevertheless, that
Europe doos not take nearly as much
interest in America as America takes
in Europe. This has long been indi
cated by the paucity of American
news in the European press ; and it is
now foroibly brought to our attention
by the indifference of Europe to the
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' have no possible interest for
him. This being so, tho wonder is
not that there have been so few Euro
pean visitors to the Fair, but that any
one in this couutry should havo ex
pected thorn to come. "
As a result of his investigations, Pro
fessor MoCook estimates the army of
tramps in tho United States at 45,845.
Practically all of them are in the prime
of lifo and in good health, with noth
ing to prevent them from earning a
livelihood, three-fifths of thorn having
trades by which to support themselves,
and nine-tenths able to read aud write.
And yet they are loafers and non-pro-duoers,
refusing to assuroo the obliga
tions of citizenship, and are a mere
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-
bucoo ; and if to this is added police
and hospital charges, the 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 $0,109,000 a year, a sum
double the cost of the Indian bureau,
aud moro than ouo-quurter of the an
nual interest of the public debt.
Worse thau this, tho army is a con
stant meuuco to public morals and
publio health, the greater that it is al
ways iu motion, iu that of those who
are ill by far the lurger proportion
suffer from exceedingly loathsome and
contagious diseases. The trump evil
is thus a most pressing one, not only
because of its demoralizing effects up
on industry, but because of the moral
and physical dangers to which it ex
poses the working population.
BWWO HIGH AND 6WINO LOW.
Swing high and swing low, wbilo the breezes
they blow
It's off for a sailor thy father would go :
And it's horo in the harbor, In sight of the
soa,
Ha hath left bis woe babe with my song
and with me
"Swing high and swing low,
While tho breeze they blow !'
Swing high and swing lor, whllo the breezes
they blow
It's oh for the waiting as weary days go 1
And it a oh for the beartacho that smltoth
me when
I sing my song over and ovor again :
"Swing high and swing low,
While the breezes they blow !"
"Swing high and swing low" the sea slngeth
so,
And it walleth anon in its ebb and its flow
And a sleeper sleeps on to that song of the
sea,
Nor recketh he ever of mine or of me I
"Swing high and swing low,
While the breezes they blow
IfM off for a sailor thy father would bo !"
Eugene Field, In Chicago Herald.
A LOVE LETTER,
BT 8. A. WE IBS.
QUIRE MADDOX
an 4- n A l. t r a
reading the leading
, vuunuig Willi
toast and indigna
tion at a fierce ed
itorial attack upon
his own political
party.
"Confounded
nonsense a n d i d -
Wrtfjfy iocy I" he exolaimed,
, rf t length, as he con
temptuously tossed aside tho paper.
"Hero, Eva, child, another cun of
coffee !"
As his daughter received the empty
eup, he 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 hia wife, whom he
had tenderly loved, his daughter had
been dearer to him than anything on
earth, and he did not liko to see her
looking unhappy.
"What is tho day's programme,
Evie?" he asked, quite mildly.
"Hadn't you better drive down with
mo to Chestjr and see the Lyne girls
while I call on my lawyer?"
"No, thank you, papa. The Lyne
girls are coming hero to tea and cro
quet this afternoon.
"Aht And who have -yon to meet
them?"
Eva's hand was a little unsteady 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 (quire's brow darkened.
"Wasn't Jack Biverton here yoster
day?" "No, not yesterdoy. "
"Well, tho day before then. Seems
to me ho is always here. Pity his
father don't keep him more closely to
his desk in his office, or that he can't
find some other place thau my house
in which to pass his superabundant
leisure. And I don't see. " he added.
frritubly "I don't see why he should
have beon invited here, when I have
already expressed my objection to I
LIE
"He is not particularly invited. "his
sister answered. "It in only the seo
ond meeting of our little croquet club
all that we can find to amuso us in
this dull country neighborhood. And.
of oourse, you can't blamo him for
coming with the rest."
Eva s soft, dork eyes hod filled with
tears.
"Papa," she said, with a little
tremor iu her voice, "why do you ob
ject to Mr. Biverton? Everybody
likes him but you. "
Ihe squire hesitated a full half min
ute, as he make a pretenso of care
fully buttering his egg.
1 nave nothing against the yonnir
man's character," he said at length,
still more impatiently, "but I don't
like him. personally that is, his ways.
I wish to hear and see no more of him
if possible. I object decidedly, Eva,
to your accepting tho attention which
he has receutly been paying you, and
I must request you, Matilda, not to
enoourage his visits here. "
"I am sure I don't enoouracre him."
Miss Matilda replied, bristling a little,
woll aware in her own mind that Mr.
Biverton needed no encouragement
from her. "But I oan't understand.
brother, what you can find lo object
to in Jack Biverton's manners. Every I
one says they are delightful, ond you
never found fault with him until
lately."
I hat is i list li. His mnuneis have
entirely changed of late. When r. man
comes courting my daughter" this in
a very possitivo tone of voiuo "i lilte
him to appear us a man, and a man of
sense and biuiuoes. He should come
to mo in the first place and sy frauklv
that be wishes my ooiixoiit to his ad
dressing my daughter as he er finds
that ho er has a regurd for her. or
something plain and simple of that
kind. But Biverton is a epoony, ud
is making a fool of hiinvelf. If there
is anything that 1 thoroughly despise,
it is to see a tall young fellow !iko thut
languishing around a woman, mukiii
sheep's eyes at her on all occasions
even in church and dawdling about
for hours in the moonlight, r"peatiuu'
poetry and calling her durliug and
dourest, aud other such baby numes.
It's disgusting !"
Here ivu, whose cheeks had been
graduully assuming the hue of the
damask rose which was pinned at her
throut, suddenly leaned back iu ber
chair and burst into tears.
She knew now that papa must havo
ovorheard that talk between herself
and Jack, when they sat in the moon
light under tho drooping roses right
beneath his open window.
And she had never dreamed that papa
could bo mean enough no, she would
not say that but unfeeling enough to
listen.
As she softly cried, with her dainty
handkerchief pressed to her eyes, sho
heard her father's concluding words :
"When you find a man making love
in this idiotio way, you may bo posi
tive of one thing that the love is only
skin-deep, and that ho will make an
indifferent, if not a bad husband. For
this reason I objoct to Mr. Jack Bivcr
erton conrting my daughter. "
That evening, in the quiet twilight
interval between tea aud croquet, Eva
took occasion to convey to Mr. Biver
ton a warning hint of what her father
expected of them in the future.
Jack knew as did most of the
squire's acquaintances that despito a
"good heart at bottom," the old gen
tleman was apt to take up absurd and
unreasonable prejudices, and to stick
to them with tenacious obstinacy
especially when he 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, "yon must not speak to papa
at present. It would ouly make mat
ters worse while he is in this mood.
We can do nothing but wait and see if
in time he won't yield to more reason
able impressions. "
"In time!" repeated Jack, im
patiently. "Why, Evie, he don't
change hi views on any subject within
five years' time."
"Well," she said, with a sigh, "I
suppose we shall have to wait, even if
it is as long as that."
One day the squire, returning from
his morning ride, found his daughter
and hiB Bister seated in the pleasant
little sitting-room opening upon the
garden.
Eva's white fingers were deftly
fashioning some rose-colored ribbons
into dainty knots and loops.
"What are those for?" her father
inquired, as he seated himself in his
own big arm-chair and unfolded his
paper while glancing admiringly at the
silken stuff.
"To wear at the lawn party this
evening, papa. And you will go with
us,' of courser
"A lawn party? Ah, I had for
gotten! Well, where is it to be at
the Lyons' ?"
"At the Bivertons'," Miss Maddox
said.
He scowled as he roughly shook out
his paper,
"I don't wish to interfere with your
pleasures or enjoyments, Evo," he
said, "but I would rather that you
should not go to this party at tho
Bivertons'."
She knew that when her father ex
pressed a wish, it was intended as a
command, and her hands dropped
listlessly into her lap, crushing the
crisp ribbons. Tears forced them
selves between the long lashes, and
she presently rose and quietly loft the
room.
Then Miss Maddock lookod up from
her own work, and there was some
thing unusual in hor expression.
Archibald, she 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 Mid
oven an elopement."
"An elopement !"
His sister took from the little work
box which Eva had left on the table a
folded letter.
"I found this here, just where you
see that sho keeps it. Perhaps I
ought not to have read it, seeing that
it is a love letter ; but, under the cir
ouiustances, I consider it my duty to
let you know the contents. Will you
road it, or shall I do so?"
The squire replied with
inarticulate grunt, which
a sort of
his sister
interpreted in Jier owj
accordingly commenced
aloud :
way, and
reading,
" 'My owa precious angel, Eva ' "
t'Bah !" said the squire, with an ex-pressiou-of
unutterable disgust.
" 'since a cruel and relentless fate at pres
ent forbids our meeting, 1 ean but take this
unsatisfuetory method of oonmiuntcatiug
with you, and teiliug you, my own dearvst
darling, of how unspeakably and uuutturulily
tleur you are to me. "
"The fool!" muttered the squire.
" 'Oh, my soul's bolovod ' "
"For heaven's sake, Matilda, spare
me any moro of that sickening and
idiotio stuff! Why, it's worse even
that I would have thought Jack Biver-
ton capublo of. What wero you say
ing about an elopement?
"It in this," answered his sister,
glancing down the page :
" 'I Huil thut I canuot exist apart from
you, and siueo your uufueliug luthur ' "
"Humph!"
" ' will not cousont to our union, we must
take our fortunes into our own bumls and
dffy uny earthly power to koep us
r.iumler.' "
"The rascal!" cried tho
etsrliug erect iu his chair.
squire,
But his sister put out her hand,
''(.'precatiugly.
"Hear the rest, Archibald !"
"Not another word! The idua of a
ravul nu-1 idiot liko that presuming to
court my daughter "
"But ut leabt hear the lust lines :
" 'GooJ-uljht, my soul's beloved ! May
neujs fnu ycu to slumber with their frj-(.rni'X-lailrn
winys ! uud iu your an'iins
V.iia'i of your own devoted
" MnrHiiiAi.u Maddox.' "
There was a bluuk, bewildered
psn:ie.
"What does this menu, Matilda?
What letter is that?"
His sister quietly handed it to him.
"It is one which you wrote over
twouty years ago to thy woman whom
yon loved and married Eva Chcsnoy.
Your daughter found it a few days ago
among somo old letters and papers iu
tho attic closet."
The squire looked over tho fadod
and torn sheet as one in a dream.
"I wonld not have beliovcd that I
could ever hove written in a stylo such
at this," ho said, in a strangely sub
dued voice.
"And yet you woro a devoted hus
band and made your wife a happy
woman."
Ho read tho letter through, and a
moisture gathered in his eyes.
"We nro apt to forgot apt 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 there were
traces of tears in her eyos.
Her father put out his hand, and
drew her gently to her former seat.
"Sit down, dear, and finish your
ribbons. 1 will take you over to
the Bivertons' this evening."
And Eva never knew until after her
marriage to Jack Biverton what had
caused so sudden a change in her
father's views and sentiments in regard
to that subject.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
The average woman lives longer
than the average man.
All medical authorities hold that
fruits are essential to prolongation of
life.
Attempts have been made to coun
terfeit meteorites, because they are bo
valuable, but without success.
According to the tracks found in a
stone quarry in Connecticut, a bird
with a foot eleven inches in length in
habited those parts.
Dr. Brown-Sequard says that press
ing in the neighborhood of the ear, es
pecially in front of the right one, will
stop a fit of coughing.
. Tho bydrographio office at Washing
ton is disposed to attribute the heat
and drought in Europe this season to
the scarcity of icebergs in the North
Atlantic.
The Chicago Common Council has
empowered the Mayor of tho city to
negotiate for the erection 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 the
women were sent to tho hospital at
some time during the period of incar
ceration. The narrowest part of tho Strait of
Florida, through whioh the Gulf
Stream flows at tho rate of five knots
an hour, is fifty miles wide, and has a
mean depth of 350 fathoms. If this
wore stopped up the climato of this
country in winter would be totally
changed.
A recently constructed submarine
boot, destined for tho French Navy, is
moved by electricity, carries a crow of
twelve men, and cun romain under
water for two hours. It is planned 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
the direction of tho sun's motion
through space, concludes that he 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 while the pine
und oak are almost entirely destroyed
by the "taret," or borer worm, the
greenheart haa suffered no injury
whutevor. This wood is a native of
British Guiana.
Experiments with a bicycle fitted out
with a small chemical tank and tire axe
are being made by a South Boston lire
company. The bicyclo has cushion
tires and with its whole outfit woighs
about sixty pounds. Tho tank holds
about two gallons of ohomical, which
amounts as au extiuguishcr to about
twelve pails of water.
It is popularly supposed that the
sudden downpour which usually fol
lows a bright Hash of lightning is in
some way caused by the flash. Me
teoroU gists have proven that this is
not the case, and that, exactly to the
contrary, it is not only possible but
highly probable that tho sudden in
creased precipitation is the real cause
of the flash.
A Curious Indian Kcllc.
wot long ogo tnere was dug up
in
Ashland a curious stone with some dim
and crude inscription upon it. It be
ing shown to an old Oregon pioneer
he prouounoed it a teiuauewas stoue,
worn as a breastplate by the ancient
Indian priests.
It hus holes in the upper corners by
which it may be hung upon the priest's
neck. It carries upon it a pieturo of
the sacred wigwam, aud at one end of
the wigwam stands the totem polo, on
tho top of which a little flag was huug
thut wurned the evil spirits off while
the priest performed his divine func
tions iu the sacred house or wigwam.
This temauewas may coincide with
the breastplate of tho Ephod, worn by
tho aucieut Hebrew priests, so that
tho pieturo of tho wigwam on this
stone may represent the primary an
cestor of all ihe temples ever dedi
cated in the world, and all lings and
liberty poles of all ages and countries
may possibly be the hueul descendants
of th j original totem represented on
the stone. Probably this Ashland
stone is tho only oiiu of the kind now
iu existence. Ashluud (Oregon) Tid
ings. Of the 200,000,000 natives of India
but 2,000,000 cau speak Eugliah, tho
language of the rulers.
HUNTING FOR BIG GAME.
THE PERIM OF ELEPHANT SHOOT
INO IN SOUTH AFRICA.
Laws for the Protection of Rlephanti
Tho Heaviest Tusk In the World
at tho Fair.
TIT HE heaviest olophant tusk in
I the world, so far as known, is
I at the World b Fair in the
. & Capo Colony exhibit. It is
seven and a half feet long and weighi
158 pounds. At the thickest part it is
about six inches through. The mate to
it, which is a little lighter, is in the
museum at Cape Town. There is an
elephant tusk largor than this, be
longing to tho King of Siam, but it is
not so heavy.
Ihe elephant who carried these
monstrous tusks more than 800
pounds of ivory, or twice the weight
of an average man was killed in the
Zambesi conntry, South Africa, some
years ago.. Ho was about fourtoon feet
high and was a genuine king of tho for
est who would have dwarfed Jumbo
himself.
Elephant hunting is the first of all
sports with the gun, but the slaughter
oi tnese great animals has been bo pro
digious since tho Arabs aud other
traders have sold breach-loading rifles
to the tribes throughout Africa, that
many fear their siieedv extermination.
However, Bobcrt Lee, who is one of
the men in charge of the Cape Colony
exhibit, and who has traveled much in
the elephant country, thinks that the
groat beast will hold on for many gen
erations yet. Africa is so vast, many
regions ore so difficult of access, and
the elephant is so tenacious of life, he
says, that man cannot kill all his tribe
as he has slaughtered the buffalo in
America.
"Elephant hunting is extremely
uungorous, said Mr. Lee. "I know
of no other sport in which tho hunter
is so liable to become the hunted,
am not a sportsman mvself. and
have nover tried to kill an elephant.
but I was once with others who thought
iney would accomplish such a feat.
"In 1887 I accompanied Colonel
Carrington's expedition into the conn'
try north of the Transvaal. While rid
ing along through an open country
we saw a herd of elephants. I think
there were about twenty of them. Wo
came closo enough for a shot. The
Colonel called for his elephant gun
ana Diazea away at the elephants. In
stantly the wholo herd dartod toward
us, trumpeting fiercely and really
presenting a most terrifying appear
ance. None of us paused for another
shot, but turned our horsos and gal
loped away as fast as we could, tho
elephants in full ohaso. So far as we
knew, tho Colonel's bullet had missed
entirely.
"My horse was not au especially
good one, ana l Drought up tho rear of
that Hying column. An elephant, de
spite his awkward appearance, can run
very fast, and 1 began to think of my
. t . ... ..
sins, my norse Bteppea into a hole,
stumbled, fell and threw me over his
head. I wasn't much hurt, and
jumped to my feet instantly and seized
the horse's reins. The animal wasn't
much hurt, cither, and I got him to
his feet and was on his back and off
again in about fifteen seconds, I think.
I don't know how close the elephants
were to me when 1 fell, for I never
looked back, I overtook the rest of the
party, and whon we stopped the ele
phants were to be eeeu no longer.
People who aro fond of a chase with
plenty of danger in it should hunt tho
elephant. I don t care for it myself."
Mr. Lee says he has seen many herds
of elephants along the Zambesi Bivcr.
and they are still more plentiful further
north. Though Cape Colony has been
settled about aa Jong as tho United
States, there are still some elephants
in a portion of its mountainous region,
known as the Knysai country. Thev
are supposed to be about five hundred
in number, and protected by tho Gov
ernment. Elephants are said to grow larger
south of the Zambesi than north of it.
There are considerable herds in the
country of Kahnia, King of the Bow
longs. This man is the most advanced
of all the South African kings or
chiefs. He has provided a set of game
laws for his couutry, aud they are
rigidly enforced. Hence in the large
territory over which he rules tho elo
phauts uro 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 Scotchman.
aud a very enlightened and a humane
man.
'I know Khama very well." said
Mr. Leo, "as I accompanied one of the
expeditions of the English into his
country. He is a remarkable man in
appearance, as well as in character.
lie is at least six feet four inches tall.
and enormously fat. He received us
kindly aud asked us muuy questions.
He was greatly pleasud with our
olothes, and discarded his African at
tire in fuvor of a suit liko ours."
Proper Kittlug Position.
"A proper sitting position. " sovs
somebody, "requires that tho snino
shall bo kept straight, aud thut the
support needed for tho upper part of
tho body shall be felt iu tho right
place." Therefore, sit as fur back as
possible iu the chair, so thut the lower
eud of tho spiue shall be braced ut tho
buck of tho seat. New York Times.
Big fallloriilti Buses.
N. W. Hcudder has upou his desk a
mummoth rose of the Houehu Coucha
variety. It measures six inches across,
whilo exactly two feet of tupo is re
quired to find tho circumference.
This extra large specimen wuu grown
upon a bush which hus yielded some
forty blossoms almost as lurgo us this
one. I'etuluma (CuL) Courier.
FOR LOVE'S SAKE,
Ayo love me, sweet, with all tby heart,
Thy mind, thy soul, and all thou art
And hop'st to bo love mo with love
That naught beneath the heavens may move ;
Yet say not wherefore ; say not why
Thou loveet slnee in these do Ho
Tho seeds of death to Love, but say,
Thou lovest, and must lovo alway 1
For should'st thou love somo witching grace
Of word or manner, form or face
Should thy heart's worship thus be bought
By any gift that Time hath wrought,
So art thou false to Love's pure creed,
And like to fall in sorest need :
But love for Love's dear sake, I pray.
Then shalt thou love me, sweet, alway !
Zitella Cocke, in Llppincott'S.
1IL310R OF THE DAT.
It is thyme that makes the old man
sage.
Well dono The farmer who falls in
with bunko men. Philadelphia Call.
The quickest way of smoothing rough
characters is to iron them. Texas
Sif tings.
Many a fond parent does not get to
sleep until after the bawl is over.
Boston Globe.
Even when the acrobat is bending
the crab on the front lawn he is, figura
tively speaking, on the back stoop.
Detroit Free Press.
Geography Teacher "Tommy, how
is the earth divided?" Tommy "Er,
not at all ; cause everybody most wants
it all." Chicago Inter-Ocean.
"Smith's business is going along like
clockwork." "Pooh, his place is in
the hands of a reoeivcr." "That's it,
being wound up." Chicago Inter
Oceau. Dinklo "Funny thing about Not
rich and his new piano." Dankle
"Is, ch?" Dinkle "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 wife at home,
Mr. Wilbur?" Wilbur "Not certain,
but if you'll hold that screen door
open half a minute you'll hear from
her." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Consolation of Matrimony : She
"I suppose you would have been
happier if you had not married me?"
He "Yes, darling, but I wouldn't
have known it." Life's Calendar.
Prisoner "But I would rathor 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 the Colonol,
Uncle Mose?" "Yes, Bah; he's bo
gentlemanly, sab !" "Gentlemanly, in
what way?" "With his money, sah,
with his monoy." Buffalo Courier.
Tenor "Sir, this music is a trifle
too high for mo." . Mauager "Let us
take it a note lower." Tenor "Oh,
half a note would do." Manager
(solemnly) "Here, sir, we never do
things by halves !" Tit-Bits.
Mr. Baldboy (smiling kindly) ' 'The
waves are using you rudely. Will you
permit me to assist you to the shore?"
Miss Waterly "Never mind, thank
you. Ihe waves may bo rude, but
they ore not fresh." Brooklyn Life.
Mr. Sinker (in searoh of a bonrdinir-
house) "There is no limit to the diet,
I presume, madam?" Boarding-house
Keeper (proudly) "No Umit, sir.
During the last year five of my
boarders died from over-eating. "
Tit-Bits.
"Mr. Metemau," said tho young
wife with great severity to her butch
er, "those last eggs you sent mo were
all spoiled, and unless you chaugo
your old hens for now ones I shall bo
obhgod to trade somewhero else.
Chicago Bccord.
Baudom Observer "Pardon me.
but what are you putting down in
your note-book? World s Fair Visit
or "Oh, I'm just putting down tho
things that have mode an indelible im
pression upon my memory so that I
won't forget thom. "- Chieugo Bocord.
Freshleigh (to stranger at a recep-
ion)--"Gud, this is a funny house!
I came here to-night without an invita
tion." Stronger "Ho did 1. How
did you come here?" Frcshleiuh
Just wulked in. How did vou como
here?" Stranger "Just walked in.
It's my house." Vogue.
He was a small man, tho conductor
of au electrio car, ami she was u large,
powerful looking womuii. "I wunt
oil to put me off ut Concord street,"
she said. Ho viewed her majestic tig.
ure for a moment, und ro plied : ".Mud
am, I will stop the ear und let you get
n. riuvi xorkl ress.
I suppose the panic hasn't struck
you yet, Mr. (iotrox? "It hasn't.
h? Here I've got more'u $10,000
that I can't act people to borrow at
11 they're all afraid to go into busi
ness any deeper, if these times keeps
p a little longer I'll laud iu the poor-
house in six mouths. " Indianapolis
ouriiul.
A judge, iu crossiuc tho Irish Chan
nel one stormy night, knocked against
well-known wittv luwver who wad
suffering terribly from seasickness.
Cau I do auvthing for you?" said
the judge. "Ves," gasped the seasick
yer, "I wish your lordship would
overrule this motion." White Moim-
tuiueir.
Chidlio "I hate to say anvthiiur ill
f a dead man, but tho doosid law vers
ho have been looking over Tippvr-
on a pupers huve bwought to liirht
iugs that showed him to be ii-
emeii. I huppio "How! What did
they find?" Chollie "Evwy time ho
oaiiud auv money to any of tho men
in the club he mado a memowauuuui
of it." ludiauapuliu Journal.
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