THS FOBEST REPUBLICAN U Aabllthei every Wednesday, kf J. E. WENK. Offloeln Smearbangh Co.'atlulldlny mji min, tionwta, r. Trm. , . . IIJOporTMf. tese three months. Onrroapondtnee solicited frra tl Mrit ef the country. N tie wtU be Ukea ( uniMi ovmanluuau. RATIS OP ADVERTISING! Republican. .-OR One Square, one inota, on ineetia..t If One 8 q uere, one inch, one month ... , S 00 One Square, one inch, three month. . I 00 One Square, one inch, one year... . 10 00 1 wo bquares, one year 15 00 Quarter Column, one rear,.,,, 80 00 halt Column, one year 50 00 One Column, one year. 100 'TO Legal tvertuwmMits tea cent per Um catch Insertion. Marriages and death notice gratia. AllbillsroryrarlyadTertisement ooDeHM VOL. XXVI. NO. 34. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, DEC. 13, 1893. S1.50 PER ANNUM. quarterly, iemporary advertisement I D paia in aavanoe. Job work cub on delivery. It cost 2,423,r,22 to food tho United States Army during tho past fiscal year. Business worried are said to bo t lio cause of twelve per ceut. of the rases of insanity. Tho farmers of Iowa hnvo ap parently enough money in banks to lny off nil tbo farm mortgages iu tho BtRtO. Rev. Dr. Jenks, nn Iudinnnprencher, Fays thnt he can give seventy reasons for believing Hint tho world will "oomoto an end" within the next ton years. Out in Maine, where, according to tho New York Recorder, "they nro now catching herring to put tip as Italian sardines," they luro the fish into the nets at night by n blazing tire on a pole. New Zealand is tho first of English colonies to give womon equal political rights with men. A bill giving them Btioh rights has just become law. It gives to nil women, married or single, the same right to voto as is now pos sessed by men. Tho only other State in the world in which men and women hnvo tho same political status is Wyoming, in this country. Electricity is gradually taking tho place of oil for locomotive headlights, notes tho Bt. Louis Republic. One fit. Louis rond tho Vnndulin has fourteen locomotives equipped with the new light and is adding to tho number every week. Tho roceut rear end collision of tho Illinois Centrnl road would probably not have occurred had the eugino of tho second section been provided with an elect rio light. The paper mill nt Salina, Kan., hn mado from sunflower stalks several tons of paper, which will be sent to experts in the East. Tho paper is re garded as superior to Btraw paper and marks a great departure in poper mak ing and sunflower raising industries. Tho mill is now buying sunflowers and proposes to make sunflower paper a specialty. On n recent evening tho Snlina Daily Republican ran its entire edition on tho sunflower paper. The thoory that times of depression in business are peculiarly fnvorablo to religious development, hns somo justi fication in experience, concludes the Ban Francisco Argonaut. But, on tho other hand, there arc more suicides in hord times than tit any other. Sta tistics show thnt there has been a noticeable increase iu suicides in New York City during tho lost mouth, tho aggregate being thirty-four against twenty-two for tho same period during tho previous year. The statistics nro suggestive, but hardly conclusive. The suicidal tendency is certainly growing; but it derives its stimulus rather from what muy bo called fixed conditions of our life than from tern-' pornry and exceptional incitements. The Xew York World observes: Wo are npt to imagine that America is the land of progress and Asia the land of regress. This is doubtless true, as a rule, but every now and then we are startled to find that tho Mongolians huvo idem i.lwi and sometimes net upon them. This statement is borno out by a receut report mado to tho JapaneKe fiovernmeut on the state of agriculture iu t'mt country, and advo cating, uiuong other things, tho es tablishment of agricultural insurance. Mutual insurance that is, "a fellow ship, tho single members of which are all insured by that samo fellowship" is also advocated. Tho report shows that the Japnneso aro wide awake. The recent disbandmeut of several companies of Indians, who had been enlisted as soldiers in Uncle Sum's army, seems to have been duo more to the difficulty of finding recruits than to any real opposition among officers to tho employment of tho red man in the ranks. Tho Indian himself does not take kindly to the restraints of discipline, and misses tho freedom of his roving life; hence, he will no longer enlist, but while ho is iu the Government's service ho uppeurs to discharge his duties us well as can be expected from him. He does not like the routine of drill, and he cannot bo depended on to stand in liuo of battle, but he makes a good scout and skirm isher in short, he shows nil the weak nesses and virtues of the savage. The great argument in favor of taking him into the regular army is still as strong as it ever was, the experiment with him not having weakened it in tho least. It is cheaper to pay him for bein on good terms nith us than to fight him, and, even if he will not tako kindly to rules ami regulations, ho is sure to become a more tractable being by subjecting himself to them even imperfectly. WHEN NUTS ARE PIPE. "he frost king comes by stcnltb at night, 'ulntlng the loaves In colors bright. With mnglo wand, In impish glee, tie breaths upon each shrub and tree; O'er hickory, walnut and the oak Ho shade a variegated cloak, And ns they ope' their sleepy eyes Ills breath comes thick from chilly skies. Tho morning sun, In mild reproof, y weeps from the fences nnd the root The crystnl footsteps of thnt raid ; Ha smiles upon eneh leaf nnd Made, And welcomes to hie genial rays The friendship of a mystic hnso, While voices through tho hill nnd dell Eobo clear as sliver bell. Olad, golden dnys I O, mystic hnno And all the swelling symphonies Of ringing shout nnd childish mirth Tho brown nuts pattering to earth , Tbo scolding of a snucy jay. Ah, glories of an nutuma dny ! Of earthly pnrndlse ntype The frost -oro ,vued woods when nuts ai ripo. Good Housekeeping. EPIIRATM DOM'S NIECES. BY PAULINE WE8T.KV. UMCE R TO N people felt a certain pity for Mr. a n d Mrs. Ephrnim Dodd whenthe two orphan daughters of Mr. I) odd's younger broth er enmo from a Wes tern homo nnd took up their abode with tho old couplo ; but Ephrnim and Susan Dodd wero honestly delighted with this sudden addition of their nieces to the family circle. Mrs. Dodd soon began to talk to her neighbors with complacency about the responsibility of bringing up girls, nnd when her back wns turned her friends shook their heads, saying : "It's a shame I In their old age, too, whon they were just beginning to take a littlo comfort!" Tho girls wero tall, pretty, strong and vivacious. Their names wero Martha nnd Evolina. Each had brown hair, a delicately tinted face and large gray eyes that looked nt people in a friendly, unabashed way. Martha was thirteen yours old when sho ar rived two years older thun her sister nnd before she hnd passed her six teenth birthdny Ephrnim decided thnt she muiit go awny to a better school thnn Lumberton afforded. It 'was a snd day for tho Dodds when a small lentheru trunk bumped to the railway station behind one of Uncle Ephraim's ox tennis. Ephrnim, Evelina nnd her Aunt Susan clung to Martha with a frantic earnestness iu nay in? good-by and then stared at ono another tearfully when the train whirled weeping Martha and her belongings away from Lum berton. On the wny back to the farm Mrs. Dodd and Evelina sat on a board plnced ncross the cart railings, and Ephraim walked beside thorn, directing his oxen. After a while he spoke sol emnly. " 'Taint thnt I nin't got confidence in Mnnhy," said he. "I think she'll turn out fust-rate; but -if there is any meanness in her nature, or any hidden dust in the corners of it, .we'll know it before long. She's started out on the testiu' times of her life." "Mercy," Mrs. Dodd exclaimed, dashing a tenr from her eye, "how you talk, Ephrnim I You make cold shiv ers run nil over me!" "I think she'll turn out fust-rato," the old man rcpeatod ; "but sho nint been tested yet, an' now she's n-goin' to be. The city nint the country, an' their ways aiut our ways." Evelina sat rigidly erect and gazed at tho oxen through a Bcreeu of tears, while the three, moving along autumn tinted country roadsides, went slowly home. There wns great vacancy in tho farmhouse. They felt it every day. Longing for Martha, they eagerly read and re-rend tho letters which she sent regularly once a week, written iu an uncertain girlish hand nbouuding in littlo curves. She told all about her studies and her toachers and her friends, sometimes even specifying the day's bill of fnre, or tho color of u claHsmato's eyes. Ephraim read nil tho letters uloud on Sutuiday evenings, piecing'them to gether like a continued story, nnd 5lrs. Dodd aud Evelina listened. It brought the writer very near to them. They always felt breathlessly inter ested. After Martha had returned homo for two visits, she was allowed to spend a long vacation with ono of the school girls iu her city homo. Then tho let ters, arriviugoftenerthan before, tool: on brighter tints, nnd gave glimpses of n luxurious town-honeo vastly dif ferent from tho Dodd liomsteud, with its wooden "wings" ami air of humble thrift. Ephrnim Dodd read these letters in a serious, fulteri u g voice while Evelina nnd her aunt listoned rather anxious ly, knowing his troubled thoughts. The faded comfort of their old sitting room somehow touched them with n wistful foreboding. Would it seem dingy to Martha ! Might not her new surrov.jidij'M teach her to despise the simple homelifo of I umherlon Tillage? At last caino a letter describing her frieud's bedroom : "I wish yon could see what a dunn ing boudoir Dorothy bus! "'he bed stead is brass nnd it glitters like gold. Overhead hac(,3 a canopy o! pale blue and white, fringed with ribbons. 1 feel like n princess sleeping on n roynl couch, Tie floor is covered with soft till Wm rugs. Tliero nro oeenns of cushions everywhere. I never sow such a bean tiful room." When Evelina read the alluring par agraph, her heart wns filled with a sudden longing. Sho believed thnt Martha would surely cherish her home, in spite of its limitations, if the room where sho slept could bo made a lit tlo less unlike that city boudoir. Now Evelina Dodd had an energetic mind and active hands. The follow ing noon sho gently broached the sub ject of her meditations to her Uncle Ephraim mid his wife. "I might kind of chirk ii. up, nnd give it a sort of stylish look," sho re marked, blushing. Ephraim Dood pondered some time before ho answered. " 'Tnin't that I don't think s'co'll liko us the way we are as well as ever," he said, awkwardly. "But it's incase nho shouldn't; iu that case jt might be wiser to fix things up ft littlo fancier, an' if you're mind to do it Eveleny, I'll help you." Mrs. Dodd had strong faith in Martha, yet possibilities loomed dis agreeably ns she thought of her hus band's words, nnd sho secretly worried in the midst of the sowing and plan ning which began almost immediately. "I shouldn't care 'bout the house or ourselves," she confided to Ephraim, "so much as I would if .Mnrthy hap pened to get to settin' herself up above Eveleny. I couldn't boar to see Eve lony's feolin's hurt." Mr. Dodd kept his thoughts to him self as he joinod in the efforts which were gradually transforming one of the old-fashioned slceping-rootus above stairs. Remarkable chauges, indeed, were being made. Ifc was well that Evelina possessed no knowledge of the huvoo worked by her loving zeal. For tho massive old-fashioned furniture of Martha'sroom could not be adapted well to modern taste in decoration. The plain mahogany bedstead was out of keeping with a fantastic spider-shaped object which Ephraim Dodd manufac tured in the woodshed, and awkwardly fastened into place above the bed. He stood on a step-ladder to do this, while Evelina and her aunt held the hammer aud nails, crying, "Oh, do be careful !" or, "Ephraim Dodd, you'll certainly break your neck 1" The poor room, with its furniture of another era, really looked abused, but Martha Dodd's relatives glowed with satisfaction over their efforts. They were obliged to make their purohases at a country store whose supplies were not abundant, yet in the end they felt thnt their labors wero repaid. After the canopy's frame had been draped with blue denim and white mosquito netting, Mrs. Dodd and Eve liua stood and admired it from afar. They believed that Martha would be pleased. Martha Dodd cnuio back to Lumber ton in midsummer, a time which al wuys found the place full of verdant beauty. She was carried to the farm in a shining buggy, recently pur chased. Her Aunt Susan and Evelina btood smiling in the yard, and show ered greetings upon her, before Eph rnim could help her out of the car riage. Afterward, they sent her up stairs alone, in order to surprise her more completely. Mart ha closed the door and remained in tho room for some time. She sat down on a sofa, and stared about her iu a bewildered manner. When she descended to tho expectant group ic the sitting-room her cheeks wero flushed and she was smiling. "Whoever thought to do it?" she askod ; "who spoke of it first ?" "Eveliny," Ephraim answered, red with pleasure. "Ah, 'twa9 lovely of you all," Mar tha said, and sho went over to Evelina and put her arms around her. "How did you manage it?" she questioned again. "Who mado tho ' canopy?" "Uncle Ephraim," replied the de lighted child ; and everyone laughed as Martha embraced her uncle affec tionately. Ho tried to get away, but sho caught him and clung to him. Her fuco wns radiant. "You've been so kind !" sho cried ; "but, uncle, yon neodn't have done it. I liked it tho way it was. Didn't you know I liked it?" A fortnight later Martha's friend, Dorothy Bundle, accompanied by her two sisters, accepted invitations to spend a fortnight at Miss Dodd's home. On the day of their arrival a county fair was being held in the next town, and Mrs. Dodd watched somo neigh bors' vehiclos fly past the, door with a good deal of interest. "If 'twa'u't for company comin'," sho said to the girls, "I might have gone myself. I nint been to a fair for three years." To her surpriso Martha seized tho stray idea almost eagerly. The girl talked to her uncle so earnestly about tho mutter that ho resolved to take his wife and Evelina to the gaily decorated grounds and stay tho entire day. Thus tho ho'lso chanced to be co:upuratively still when four girls ei.tcied merrily aud rushed up the stairs to Martlet Dodd's "boudoir." "Why, what iu the world !" lierthu Bundle exclai'ued wouderiugly, i:.s soou as sho h'l.l surveyed tho room. Two old pcopl) and a gill trundling over tho turnpike road were two far nwuy to hour the pculs of laughter that Buiblouly rang through tho house. "O Martha Dodd," said one of tho g.rls, " it's the fuunict bight I ever saw in all my life." "Who did it !" uuother asked, aud hen the laughter began aguiu. But only three girls laughed. Mar tha tut among somo queer looking patchwork cushions, aud viewed the mirrouudings gravely. ' You may lauh all you like," 6he said ; "n jbody can hear you. I wanted you to get used to it, before thu folks coaje It-jino. X" the checked herself and the girls looked at her. "Why did they do it?" Dorothy asked at last. Martha gazed out of tho window be fore she answered. "They did it," nhe said, slowly, "because they lovo mo. I wrote about your room, and they hoped to make this something like it. My littlo sis ter Evelina " she paused. The listeners drew nearer and stood around her in a littlo circle. "They did tho best they know how," sho continued, "and I like my room as well as Dorothy's. The cano py is ugly, but whon I woke and look up at it, I think how their love covers me night and day ; so you see it's a pleasure. " "The rngs are funnier," Bertha re marked finally, in order to break tho silence, and her sisters smiled, but they did not laugh ngnin, in tho samo way. They began to feel an interest in Evelina, and 'his inoreosed through the happy dnys which marked their stay in Lumberton. Ephraim Dodd's generous heart warmed as Martha's citycompohy bads him a reluctant good-by on the station platform. The eldest Bundle girl Hhook his hand cordially. "Well," Mr. Dodd," said she, "we've had about the plonsanteBt visit we ever had. And when Martha comes to see us again, we want Evelina to come, too." The old man blushed, and Martha nearly interrnptod his stammering thanks. "I'll stay at home and let Evelina go," she explained. "We sha'n't leave Aunt Susan and Uncle Ephraim alone." Thnt evening, Ephrnim unburdened himself to Mrs. Dodd, a little remorse fully. "We needn't have felt no uneasiness 'bout Marthy," he declared. "She's turned out first rute ; she'll stand any amount of testin', an' so will Eveliny," Mrs. Dodd laughed tremulously, as she extinguished tho sitting-room lamps. . "No," was the answer, "sho aint goin' to hurt anybody's feelin's Mar thy aint." Youth's Companion. Farasol Ants. The Eew Bulletin says thnt tho Gov ernment of Trinidad has passed an ordinance for the extermination of parasol ants, so far as its power ex tends. The pest has become unbear able. In fact, from the nature of things, wherever this ant is found, a growing civilization must wage wnr to the death with it. For the creature strips trees of their leaves, which it neatly trims to the size and shape of a three-penny bit and carries to the nest. An army of aecodoma cephnlotes at work is one of the strangest sights in tropical America. The column may be followed for a mile, three or four inches in width, a serried mass of ants each carrying aloft upright as a flag its green disk. They will strip a large tree of which they fancy tho leaves in twenty-four hours. But nature has limited their ravages in the way which Darwin and Wallace teach us to re spect. Many species of trees are quite protected against them by peculiari ties which we cannot detect. Many inches iu width, a serried mass of ants will not attack them if they have a choice. But the enterprising for eigner brings his useful fruits and plants from every quarter of the world, and establishes them in the domain of tho aocodoma. Then there is joy un mixed. With unprotected fruit in abundance the ants multiply as they never could before. So tho Trinidad authorities havo mado a law that the warden of any district may authorize a land owner who "suffers, or is likely to suffer," from their ravages, toenter any neighbor's ground and destroy the nests if he can, be it understood. And any one obstructing such proceed ings when duly authorized by the war den becomes liable to a fiuo of $50 or imprisonment for three mouths, with or without hard labor. An Elevator For Cats. It has been such an everyday con venience to be hoisted in an elevator car at railroad speed, to the 'toenth floor of a high ollice building, that one regards it as a matter ofconrse. It has remained for an East Weymouth (Mass.) couple, however, to apply tho principle of the elevator to tho felino economy of the household with grati fying results. Mr. and Mrs. O. live in upper apartments; therefore Mr. Q. had to go down and upstairs every time their half-grown kitten was put out of doors or let in. This became monotonous, so one day Mr. O. placed the cat in a basket, tied a rope to tho handle and lowered the cat, I'aul-like, to tho ground. Tho cut evidently grasped the situation at once, for since that time sho has rarely been let iu or out of tho door, but bus mado her perpendicular pilgrimages with all the gravity of an old business muu. Tho most remarkable circumstance is that she now gets into the basket as it rests on tho ground beneath tho window aud mews lustily until taken in. If there were u set of electric buttons for her to push, "up once, down twice," she would probubly learn tho combina tion. As it is she is tho cause of a mild little sensation iu the town, ami is as proudly exhibited by her owner ns would be the feliue heroiiio of the bahtd, which iu ancient num ber is declared to huvo returned. ' New York Telegrum. The lliiti.h rmpire. Boughly speukiug, the Biitish em pire extends over one continent, 100 peninsulas, 600 promontories, 1000 lakes, 2000 rivers, and 10,5000 isluuds. The AoMTitiU empire was not ii wealth as this is ; tho Roman empire) was not so populous ; the Persian em pire was not so txUntive ; the Spanish empire was not lo powerful. St'IKMIFIC AXI IM'USTKIa:., The distance from the farthest point of polar discovery to the polo itself is 400 miles. Powerful air brakes aro now being constructed for use on freight trains of 160 cars. Tho long distance telephone hasboen put in operation botween Norway and Sweden, and his Majesty at Christiania can communicate, directly by word of mouth with his ministers at Stock holm. When yon speak of bees, designate the kind referred to. There are 4500 species popnlarly known an "wild bees," 3200 being natives of the Amer icas. Britain has seventy species of bees and sixteen of wasps ; of the latter there are 170 species known to entomologists. The value of vaccination against smallpox is shown by recent statistics from London hospitals, showing thnt whereas in tho nn vaccinated 23.8 per cent, died, and tho remaining cases Inst 47.2 days, there were in tho vac cinated cases no deaths at all, and 28.5 days was the averngo duration of tho disease. It may be doubted, says an English writer, whether our measurement of nni malcournge has yet been sufficiently extended, for there nppenr instunces in which the acts of daring are prompted by a sense of obedience, of discipline, and even of duty something similar in kind to that which marks and dis tinguishes the highest forms of cour age in man. An operation for appendicitis re vealed the fact that the disorder wns due to the presence of tooth brush bristles. "Cheap tooth brushes," re marked the surgeon who had charge of the case, "are responsible for many obscure throat, stomach and intestinal ailments. The bristles aro only glued on and come off by the half dozen when wet and brought in contact with the teeth." A fire balloon is a recent invention for signaling by night. The balloon is made of paper, is portable, and is inflated by burning spirits or even straw or wood. When ready to ascend a message string is appended. This is made of combustible beads strung nt intervals on a pieoe of quick match. Different combinations of large and small beads oro usod to express the signals. Among other interesting matters with which the psychological labora tory is experimenting is the subject of time measurements of different men tal processes. The conclusions reached on the average time it requires us to make some of the commonest judg ments wero: Recognition of a ray of light, .011 seconds; recognition of or dinary sounds, .015 seconds; to local ize mentally when blindfolded any place on our body touched by another person, .021 seconds ; mental judgment of a distance when seen, .022 sec onds; recognition of the direction of loud sounds, .062 seconds ; recogni tion of short English words, .214 sec onds; recognition of pictures of ob jects, .163 seconds; to answer suoh questions as "Who wrote 'Hamlet,'" .000 and over. Sufferers From ' tJlliheilsh Aphasia." The Edinburgh Medical Journal publishes nn article which, among other things, disonsses the question of the effects of brain changes on speech. A patient is mentioned who suffered from what is called "gibberish aphasia." This poor man knew as well as anybody else exactly what was going on around him. Ho was per fectly sane in all respcots, and, if his tongue would havo obeyed his under standing, all would have been well. But when ho began to speak nothing whatever but absolute "gibberish" would come out of his mouth. Tho only coherent words he could utter, and those only at times and by acci dent, wero "If you please, sir." Another patient, who also was sane, could not even read aloud correctly from a book wheu the page was open before him. When nsked, for example, to read aloud tho passage, "It shall be in tho power of tho college to examino or not to examine any licentiate," he invariably read it thus: "An the bo what in tho tomothar of the throtho todoo to majorum." Tho patient re covered in due time aud spoke liko other people. A (Jueer Elecfric Clock. T. F. Hudson, a conviot in the Maryland l'vuitentiary, bus construct ed a real horologicul oddity in the shape of an electric clock. The diul is a somi-circlo of white marble with twelve murkod at each corner, tho other numerals for the hours being figured along tho aro. It has one hour huud and two miuute hands, tho lieit two set opposite to ouch other, and iu such a muuuer that one is Been at noon and tho other at midnight, aud at no other time. Tho seconds nro marked on a diul thnt turns from right to left, while tbo pointer or secoud huud is stationary. Hudson is a born genius, nnd nearly every room iu the prison is adorned with a specimen ot his ingenuity. St. Louis Republic. Modesty ( nine With Age. Gounod, the composer, htuuds exon erated from tho reproach of vanity, which, liko affectation, belougs to tbo weak and tbo youii;f. Ago and taleut restore equilibrium, u:id vanity is su perseded by legitimate pride. He one day compared the progress of modesty iu his soul wnli the simultaneous whit euiug of his hair. "Wheu 1 was very young 1 used to sny 'J ;' later on Imiij '1 and Mozart ;' thru lozurt und I. Now 1 say '-Moz.irt."' Tbo muster it' versed tbo wor Uof Mirubeuu : "Hum' ble, when I consider myself; proud, when I compare inyeclf with other. ' Argouuut. VALUE OF GOOD KOADS. flESTJLTS OF AN INOUIRT DIRECT ED TO INDIANA FARMERS. Profit In Dollars nnd fonts From Improved Highways, and Annual Ioas Due to Poor Hoads. JT ANY persons are accustomed, l I when approached with a 1 project for road itnprove (i ment, to pnt tho mutter off as they would a luxury "until better times." While they acknowledge that better publio highways would be a very nice thing at certain seasons of the year it never seems to hnve dnwned upon them that to improve the roads would be nn investment, just like rais ing higher grade stock or using im proved and labor-saving machinery, which would soon pay for itself. Un fortunately this class of people hns been in the majority both in town and country, where solid roads are most needed, and their want of progress has seriously clogged many nu enterprise of value to the community. It has long been known in a general way thBt no better outlay of a few hun dred dollars could bo mado by the fnr mer or country merchant thnn in build ing rock or gravel roads, but attempts to reduce tho prncticnl value to dol lars and cents have seldom been made. A gentleman in Northern Indiana re cently undortook to find out whnt the farmers themselves thought of the matter. In answer to his inquiries letters were received from farmers in forty counties of the State, some of whioh were provided with turnpike and some not. Some of them took a very pessimitio view of tho road im provement, sand some were unduly elot ed over the possession of splendid high ways. Tho average was taken on the various propositions, however, just as the replies came in, and the result is extremely interesting. The farmers estimated thnt by rea son of the roads already improved their lands had increased in value an aver age of 80. -48 an acre, one enthusiast placing it at 100 percent. If all roads were improved tho Increase was esti mated at $'.) an acre. So tho increase of value alone on each section of land would amount to $5760, or enough to macadamize four miles, which is twice as much road as a section contains. That is ono phase of the questiou. The annual loss due to poor roads was placed at 76 1-5 cents an acre, which is manifestly too low. Accepting it as correct, however, tho loss from poor roads in five years would amount to $2432 for each section, or enough to build two miles of good road at $1216 each, which is considerably more thun the average cost per mile in Indiana. The actual money value of good roads, obtained by adding tho loss for not having them to the gain if you did, is $6000 for every 640 acres, and increases by nearly $500 every year These are facts, ice-cold and not pos sible to contest. With good roads tho farmer would make a great economy of time and force in transportation be tween farm and market ; ho would be able to take advantage of market fluc tuations in buying and selling ; he could do the hauling of farm products and purchased commodities in the time of greatest leisure ; the wear and tear upon horses, burners and vehicles would be greatly reduced. Tho mar ket value of his farm would be greatly enhanced, so that, nt the lowest esti mate, his 300 acres would be worth $U880 more, while nt least 8250 would be saved every yeBr. These are the facts brought out by Mr. W. C. Lntta in tho journal known as Raving, und they are worthy the closest attention by furuier and towusmuu alike. Kan sas City Times. A Fierce Bird from the Sea. Captain Faussetof the British steam ship Lord Landsdowue, from Ardros sun, Scotland, captured while at sea a most peculiar bird. It is still held captive on bonrd, being peuned up in thu lower churt room. It is very tierce, aud tho Captain's large dog is afraid to venture near tho peculiar bird. Ever since its capture it has been feeding on raw meat, which is thrown iu the window gratings. Early ono morning when many hun dred miles from the shore, the bird was seen hovering about iu tho locality of the ship, uud finally it landed ex hausted on tho foretopmust, where it was captured with some diUiculty by tho boatswain. Wheu brought to the deck its craw was found to bo empty, but it refused everything offered until the steward threw into the quarters where it was confined a piece of canned beef, which it ate. Upon becoming rested tho bird became very fierce, uud tho sudors were ufraid to go near it. It is not known to what species the bird belongs. Its head resemble somewhat that of uu owl, but the body is liko a chicken, only tho wind's are much larger uud appear more power ful. Captain Fausset believed the bird was driven offshore iu one of the re ceut gules. Ho does not think it is a sen fowl. Philadelphia I'lcss. The Oldest Soldier in the World. Russia proudly claims tho oldest soldier, if not the oldest citizen of any rank, in the k.iown world. Her claimant for this distinguished honor is Colonel tlritzeuko, of l'ottawa, near Odesun, who, if he lives until February 7, will celebrate his one hundred and twentieth birthday. ( b it ieuko i i ti red tho military service iu the year 17'.', 101 years ago, i:u I received frmii the hsnds of Etnpresi CatHerine leioi lt a gold medal tor conspicuous bravery nt the assuult ol Ismail. This trophy, of which the aged warrior is justly very proud bears, the following in scription: "For exceptional bravery at the ussuult of Isiuuii, December 11, n&J." St. Louis Republic. THE OLD MILL. Peep in the shadow, down under the hill, Ptund the mossy planks of an old sav-mlll, Leaning far over, ns If to look At its fair companion, the rushing brooij For there below In the turbulent stream Lie many a worm-oaten joist and beam. Negloeted, orgottec, left alone. Through its broken roof the broozes monn, And birds sing more soflly thotr cheerful lays, Romcmbering other brighter dnyi, When this tottering ruin wns firm and strong, And the mill wheel roared its thunderous song. Rut the mill wheel lies in the brooklet's bod, And the water's rushing song hss fled. Bo the trees growing near extend leafy arms To hide from the sight of the prosperous farms And protect from the sun's bright, pitiless ray The poor old mill, so shattered nnd gray. Alice B. Leu, In Sprlnglleld Republican. HUMOR OF THE DAY. On time Wings. A fishing resort Lying. Column articles Vertebra. Cut down in youth Whiskers. A race for wealth The Americans. Minds his buainess The psycholo gist. Forcing the season Shaking tho pepper-box. Usually out of season The boarding-house pepper-boxes. Elmira Ga zette. It is said that the bull is very liable to an attack of scarlet fever. Lowell Courier. After the wedding the typewriter becomes a sawing machine. New York Advertiser. We opine that a sea dog feels most at home when he is on a bark. Seneca Republican. "Man wants but little here below," bnt it seems somebody else hos it. Dallas News. Seems strange thnt when a lady wants to show her diamonds off she invariably puts them on. Statesman. The long term convict isn't much of a believer in the theory thot life is evolved from a cell. Lowell Courier. After the train Is captured, Aftor the robbers have gone, Then come a thousand suggestions Ot how things should have been dono. CUiongo Iuter-Ooenn. "What is your best reason for be lieving that Bhe'll marry him?" "Her parents Bay that she shan't." Chicago News. Bessie "That young Mr. Skimpley has over a million." Kitty (looking over him.) "Well, ho noeds it!" Vogue. What a lot of labor would be saved if the sweeping glances we rond about would only take tho dirt from carpets. Buffalo Courier. Strange to say, many brokers are best pleased with the stock market when it is simply unbearable. Boston Commercial Bulletin. Teacher "Now, Robbie, take four slices of cako from six slices, and what will thera be left?" Robbie "A lickin' for me." Inter-Ocean. Professor X. (on finding a living bug in his textbook of zoology) "Ha, how did this thing get here among the mammals?" Fliegendo Bluetter. The prophet bnth a curious way His wonders to perform ; Fur he predicts a sunny dny And struightw.ty comes a storm. Kuto Field's Washington. "Waiter, it is almost half an hour since I ordered that turtle soup." Waiter "Sorry, Bir, but you kuow how slow turtlos is." Fliegendo Bluet ter. Muruma "Georgie, have you been a good boy to-day?" Georgie "Thut'l not for me to say. You would not have me boastful or egotistic, mamma." Boston Transcript. Teacher "Emma, what doyoukuow of the orchid family?" Emma "II you please, madum, mumma has for bidden us to indulge in any family gossip. " Fliegendo Blatter. Mrs. Clinker "I understand, Mrs. Vault org, that your boh is going up rapidly in college." Mrs. Vaulters "Yes, indeed. He's ulreody broken tho high jump record." Cleveland I'luin Dealer. "What mukes yon look so unhappy?" "Toothache." "Allow mo to congrat ulate you." "Why?" "A man who at eighty can still huve toothache is certainly to be congratulated." Flie gendo Bluetter. Jiggers "Young Justwed nys bii wife is a very mugnetio woman. Jag gers "You bet she is. He asked her to let him go downtown with mo tbo other night uud sho showed both nega tive and positive qualities in less'u half a minute." Buffalo Courier. Yachts Were Alnuvs Pleasure YenscN. Tho term "vaoht" is derived from tho Danish word jaght, meuuiug a c.:tse ; benoo yachting Is tho chasing 'if ono vessel utter another and, ac cordingly, yachting mid yacht racing nro t vnoii viuotis expressions. A yacht is uud always has been essoin i'llly a pleasure cr.ilt. History does not tell us where, when, or under w bat cir cumstances yachts were lht built, but it is certain they nro of ancient ori;;:u uud were only own-.-1 by royal persona und giv-'it nobles. Loudon 1 inns. 1'iissttord to 1 In loner ol London. A London paper says that probably very lew p'Tsoiis know that tho Lord Mayor is the only pcrnm --other tbun the ll;ii't-!i and tho cotistulde - -v bo knows t In- password to the Tower of London. This pi-saword is sent to tho M:iusii.n House quarterly, signed by Her Mai. sy. It lo a tuivivul of uu uuoieut eas.oiu,
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