THE FOREST REPUBLICAN U blik4 vrjr Wdtdy, k J. E. WCNK. Oflto la Bmarban(h Co.'s ufl51n; bum rrmsrr, tionmita, r. Terms, ... tijiO prTar. RATIS OF ADVERTISING! FA CAN One Bqnar, one inch, on inaartioa, .1 1 W On. Hquar, on Inch, one month .... I 00 One Bqaare, one inoh, three month. , 00 On Nquare, one itirh. on year... ., 10 00 Two Bqnar-M, on yar 15 0C Quarter Column, on year.., OTOC Half Column, on jeer MM On. Column, on jr . 100 0 advrtUmnt ten orat par IIm each tnaartion. Marriages and death notices gratis. All billsforyearlyadvertisement ooEmSal quarWlr. Temporary advertisement awaat b. paid in adrano. Job work uh on delivery. JL. 0 nkwrtptlM nelv4 ff a Mrtat frtoi tn tare aientha. Oom.pond.nc. .eltelte Im tl Mitt f ta onnur. N.a.tic WU1 a tesaa f unrmoot oaoiaafaUM. VOL. XXVI. NO. 37. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, JAN. 3, 1894. $1.50 PER ANNUM. 1 Russian far mem hold an average, of twonty-Bevon acres to each family. Tho annual average of criminals Iried iu Germany for all offenses is 222,604; in Italy, 127,372; in Great Britain, 78,438. In a German university a student's matriculation card shields bim from ertest, admit" him ai half prioe to the theatres, and takes him freo to tho art galleries. - The on of a real marquis is work ing on the streets of Tacoma, Wash. His father lms disowned him, but tho boy, more forgiving and less proud, still acknowledges his father. The United States steamer Philadel phia has tho honor of being the fast en! warship afloat. On one day, dur ing her rceeut trip from New York to Honolulu, 330 knot wero made, which, in the opinion of the Hartford Jour nal, ia a remnrkablo record. It ia worth while now and then to pause and consider, soliloquizes Fos ter Coates in Frank Leslie's. New York contains within its borders more Hebrews than there are in Jerusalem, more Irishmen than -there are in Dub lin, more Germans than there aro in Hamburg, and raoreltalians than there are in Bomo. Amongthe multifariousduties which demand the attention of tho Calcutta poliee, the capture of sharks in the Hooghly finds a place.- During the past twenty years rewards have been paid for the destruction of these ma rine man-caters, and lecently the Ben gal Government laid down a scale for these payments. Doubtless three-fourths of the Americans who visit the Bermudas, re marks the Now York Sun, pronounce the second syllable of tho name as if it were spelled "mew," although Shakespeare in the "Tempest" has indicated for all time the original pro nunciation of that syllable by calling the islands "the still vexed Ber moothes, " Bays th Now Orleans Picayune: The Government of Italy has determ ined to effectually suppress the brig andage which has long terrorized the Island of Riuily. It proposes to de clare martial law in the island and to send thither 12,000 troops, who will have the assistance of the local police, and will push a vigorous compaigu, especially through the mountainous districts. The courts where the brig ands are tried will have special meas ures taken for their protection. The Sicilian Mafia in this country will doubtless soon have large accessions to its ranks. Do you ever notioe how few patches people are wearing f asks the New York Sun. It is because clothing . so much cheaper now than it used to be, that it is not worth whilo pulling old garments together. When they are worn out, they go into the rag bag or are giveu to tramps and new ones are ordered of the onstom tailors, or more often are bought outright at the near est Jiaiid-:ne-down shop. A pair of colonial boots, recently shown in a shoe maker's window, was almost cov ered with homo-made patches. Such exhaustive eking otit of old boots is not in vogue nowadays; it is cheaper and better to get new goods. The red doer is still bunted in Eng land, but in a way that the San Fran cisco Chronicle thinks must make the gorge of true sportamen riatt. A recent English paper describes the method. It says : "The red deer which aro an nually required for sport with the Queen's buckhouuds were selected yes terday from the famous herds in Wind sor Great Park. After one or two un successful raids among the favorite haunts of the wild red deer about sixty fine stags aud hinds were pursued across the royal demesne and driven into Cranbourne paddock, noar the Flemish farm, where some of them were speedily caught in the nets stretched across the inclosure and secured by the huntsmen and park laborers. The strongest animals on being released from the toils were carefully placed iu wooden crates and conveyed in the royal van and carts to Swinley pad docks, where they await the opening of the hunting season. " After reading this description we no longer wonder that there is a society in Kngland which devotes itself to creating sentiment against hunting with tha buckhouuds, but we do wonder that the English are so slow to apprehend how utterly in human and farcical it is to call a round up of tame deer huutiug. If any one attempted to harry the deer in our park with dogs and called the thing hunting, he would iu all probability be treated to a coat of tar and feathers. In the cholera plagues since 1843 the death rate has been tolerably uni form, about forty por cont. of tho cases terminating fatally. The Now Hampshire Experiment Farm finds that milk from the best cows costs 1 cents a quart; from their poorest, 4 conts, as it costs just as much to food the smaller producer. It is estimated that an average of more than 2000 vessels and 12,000 lives are lost in the various seas and oceans every year, the value of ships and cargoes being roughly averaged at 1100,000,000. Tho most unique bequest Yale has ever rcccivod has just been recorded by the will of Minot Booth, au eccen tric citizen of Monroe, Conn. It con sists of several largo quarries which, though of groat practical value for building purposes, Mr. Booth has be queathed for geological purposes, hav ing always believed they would bo in valuable for soiontiflo research. Englishmen, Irishmen and colored men are the usual employes about stables in New York, though elsewhere Italians have eome to be employed at all sorts of unskilled manual labor. The fact is, explains the New York York Sun, that Englishmen are bred to the care of horses. Irishmen have a curious sympathy for the brutes, and colored men enjoy the cosy warmth of stables in winter time. Nicaragua has enacted laws that bears very hard on the alien, notes the San Francisco Examiner. The under lying idea seems to be to have the alien furnish the money for a govern ment devoted mostly to his own op pression. When Nicaragua shall have acquired the largest standing army in the world and the largest navy it may be able to execute these lawB. In the meantime much satisfaction may be derived from contemplating the fact that such august enactments 'adorn and glorify the statute books. - , The production of cotton is rapidly increasing in quantity in the transcas pian provinces of Russia. Last year as many as 72,565 tons of raw cotton were transported across the Caspian to Batonm and Foti. After reshipment at these places the cotton was con veyed to Odessa and Bebastopol, and thence to the weaving mills at Lodz, Warsaw and those in tho Moscow dis trict. It being cheaper than either American or Egyptian cotton, which pays a very heavy import duty, it may bo, suggests the Chicago Herald, that in a few years, when the cotton crop of the tranBcaspian provinces will suf fice to furnish the raw material re quired by the Russian mills, American alhd Egyptian cotton will cease to be bought in Russia. Various cities in Germany have es tablished muuioipal eating houses as a means for minimizing begging and to relieve the worthy poor of the neces sity of accepting food given in charity. Our Consul at Chemnitz, James C. Monaghan, in a report to the Statu De partment, gives a most favorablo ac count of an institution of this kind in that city, as the result of a visit. "Tho food is substantial," he declares. "To a hard-working man with appetite sharpened by exercise, the dinner is excellent. The moats, vegetables, etc., aro properly cleaned and prepared be fore they are cooked. Everything is kept clean, and smells sweet and whole some. The people, who look hearty, gather in large rooms on benches placed by long tables. Besides the dinner, the midday meal, supper id served to those who wish it." From the list of the food given, observes the Boston Herald, it appears to be sub stantial and excellent in kind and variety, and that the institution is ap preciated is evidenced by tho faot that last year 435,360 dinners were sold The food is sold by the portion, and an ample dinner never costs more than ten cents. The establishment is so practically managed that it yieldd something of a profit to tha city : the expenditures last year were $15,557.28, and the receipts were $17,501.68, leav ing a balance of $1944.40. At out umnioipal lodging house here in Bos ton, meals and lodging are paid for in work. Our custom of giving out free soup at the police stations through the winter has little to commend it. It is demoralizing and encourages vagrancy and pauperism. The bounty often goes to unworthy recipients, aud instances have been related of keepers of cheap boarding houses obtaining supplies for their tables regularly in this way. On the other hand, many who may really need the food are too sensitive to re-, oeive it in charity. It would be much better to sell the soup at cost, together with broad and perhaps other simple kujdsof food, BABY DOROTHY, You look so wise, I think that you Know some strange things beyond our view. Your steadfast eyes, Bo calm and clear, Ilave neither doubt, distrust, nor fenr. You have an air Profoundly sum That all iwt mercies will endure ; That bright and fair All things must be For little baby Dorothy. Soorystal cloar Your lambent eyes, I think that good and pure and wis Things must apponr Beholden through fiuch limpid, shining spheres of blue. And hence the world To your calm gazo Is beautiful with golden days ( And all im pearled With purity Is life to baby Dorothy. But stay, a tear, A trembling Hp What frightful storm has wrecked your ship? What ghostly foar Or vast distress Has clouded o'er your comeliness? Away, great beast Or specter grim 1 Give place to winged seraphim And fairy feast? A shamo on tbeo To frighten baby Dorothy I A dimpled cheek, A laughing eye, The dreadful grief has hurtled by But far to seek Is that sage air Of saintly wisdom, calm and fair. A sage or saint It seems you're not, But just a dainty human tot A precious, quaint, Sweet prodigy ; Dear, darling baby Dorothy 1 -David L. Jroudflt in the Century. WON BY A STORM. Br f. T. NKWOOKB. HE wind blew strong and salty from the bay across the shore as the sun went down and long twilight gath ered. It was not a quiet sunset, but it was beautiful. On the doorsten of aioug me snore sai Iherese, praying that sho might die. She sat there with her brown little hands clinched, her eyes dry and flash ing, and two little red spots burned on iier cneess. it noa Deen Honrs Binoe she had spoken to any one, and her mother had at last left off coaxing and scolding and questioning. After all, she knew why Therese sat there olmching her little hands. She had told her that it would be so, but Theresa would not listen then. The evening meal was set and presently the father came. Therese moved enough to let him in at the door, but she did not speak. He gave her an inquiring .look, but went on into the house. "What ails the child?" ho asked of the mother as she flew about adding the finishing touches to the suppor table. "She has lost her lover with the curly hair," answered the mother. "One of the fine ladies from the city has him now. He follows her around like a little dog. Therese is a fool to care." "Hush!" said the father. "Have you no heart?" Then ho went out to where the daughter was sitting on the doorstep. "Como little maid," he said, "let us walk to the chair and back before we have our supper." The chair was a great boulder that stood out away down the shore near the water, rudely fashioned during the centuries that it had stood there into the shape of a huge settee. Therese sat very still for a moment after the father spoke, but he put his big hand gently on her arm, and presently she rose to go withhim, mutely comforted. "Where are you going?" called the good mother after them. "The sup per is ready and waiting. " "Then it will have to wait," called back the father. ' 'Come, little maid. " They walked down the shore in si lence until they reaohed the chair. Therese climbed up into her favorite place, her father stood by her resting his gray head on her knee. "Fine laddies are fickle," be said. "He may come back." "I do not want him that way," she said. "If he comes at all, he must leave her for me. I do not hate him, for she stole him with her ways that only wicked people know. But I will not have her send him back to me." Thereso was very quiet when she came back with her father, but the walk had done her good, and she was about the house after supper was over, helping her mother as she was used to do. When she went to bed that night her eyes were still dry, but she prayed that she might be forgiven for the vrickud things that she had thought. For the first few weeks after she came with her mother to stay at the old farm house near tho shore the hours and days had dragged wearily with Eleanor Southard. Hlie was used to being amused and entertained, aud there was nobody at the farmhouse to entertain her. On the other hand she was called upon part of the time to amuse or try to amuse her mother, who was iu per petual ill health. Her mother enjoyed beiug iu ill health, but she enjoyed it iu a melan choly way that needed some one to see her sutler aud pity her quite often. It was with great joy, therefore, that Eleanor discovered that there was iu the neighborhood a youug man who was good looking, who was intelligent above his class, and who had curly hair. She made his acquaint ance down by tho shore, where he was fixing up an old boat-. Her hat blew off into tho water, and he fished it out for her, and they both laughed to see the way it was drenched. She put it on, and tho salt water ran down over her cheeks, and that made them laugh again. It was a very limited neighborhood, and it was easy to get acquainted. Eleanor went back to the farmhouse and told her mother that she had dis covered a type. They talked it over together and enjoyed the idea and de cided that it was very fortunate. When they discovered a few days later that the type could sing curious little Swedish ballads quite accepta bly, and that after the day's work was done ho wore clothes that were really presentable, they were even more plowed. Eleanor managed to see a good deal of her discovery, and after awhile she induced him to come to the house. It was not long before his coming there was quite the usual thing. The two women flattered the young man outrageously, and pretty Boon Otto began to think that he was consider erable of a fellow. It was then that he began to neglect Therese. When he did not neglect her, he patronized her, and that hurt her even worse. But Therese was an independent little thing, and she would not stand that. So they had their quarrel, and Otto said that he was not coming to see her any more until she was sorry that she had talked so to him. He meant to punish her. It was only the other side of his patronizing. Therese said very well, and that was the reason she sat on the doorstep wishing that she could die. Perhaps the worst thing that he did was when he told Eleanor about all this. She listened to him just a little startled, and then she laughed and pretended to give him good advice, while all the time he knew by her tone that she was laughing at him and his story. That mode him desperately hard on Therese, for, singularly enough, he began to think that she had done a monstrously clever thing in getting him to fall in love with her. He talked about himself to Eleanor a good deal more than ever that even ing, and when he went home he was well started towards being a very dis agreeable young man. Otto had done enough, certainly, to deserve to lose his sweetheart alto gether and no doubt that is what would have been if something had not happened that brought him to his senses. Fortunately, however, some thing did happen. There came a great storm one night, and in the morniug when clouds began to scatter and the waves began to sub side the people on the shore saw that during the night a hngo coasting vessel had drifted upon the sand bar. She waB caught there fast enough, but it did not appear that she had suf fered any serious damage. When it grew calm enough, tho cap tain of the vessel sent a boat ashore and offered large pay to men that would come out and help throw enough of the cargo overboard to lighten the ship and release her from the bar. There were plenty who were willing to go. They went out that day and returned at night to their homes. There was auother day's work before them. Then it was hoped tho vessel would float clear of the bar. Therese's father was one of tho men that went out to do the work, and on this second morning Therese wanted to go out with him. There was room in the boat, and it was quite calm, so there did not seem any reason why she should not go. Her father took her quite willingly. Otto did not go. Under ordinary oiroumstanoes he would have boon one of the first to undertake the work, but the change that had come over him ex tended to his habits of industry as well as to other things. Late in the morning of tho second day Eleanor came down to the shore, and Otto, seeing her from a distance, joined her there. "I want to go out there to the ship," said Miss Southard. Otto looked at the sky and shook his head. "I don't like the looks of things," he said, "I wish so many of our people were not out there already." Eleanor laughed mockingly. "So you are afraid," she said, "I thought that belonged to women, but I I am not afraid." "You don't know the signs," ven tured Otto. "Never mind the signs. I want to go out there. Have you a boat? Otto bowed. "Then you will take me, will you not?" Her tone had lost its mocking ring, t nd she was looking up at him dangerously. He hesitated a moment, and then there came a laughing light agaiu into the great dark eyes of the girl, for she saw that he had yielded. "Wuit for me here, he said, as he started up the beach. "If you will go of course I will take you." Presently he returned in his dory and took her out to where his boat, a clever little sailing craft, was lying at anchor. There was just enough breeze to carry the boat along at au easy speed. It was a glorious day, but Otto looked troubled. The little piece of buutiug at the head of his mast flapped un steadily, aud the sea gulls were muk- lug their way shoreward. llii'V had gone but a part of the distance toward the great ship when dark clouds began to pile up above the uorizon. Eleanor saw them and began to be frightened. "There is going to bo a storm," sho cried. They reached the ship just as the storm broke. Therese was standing with her father watching the approach ing gale. Tho work of lightening the ship had been abandoned. f It was an awful moment, for the wind began to blow a perfect gale, and tho little craft was in danger every moment of being dashed to pieces against the larger one. Otto managed to get up under tho lee, however, and then there was a pnnio on board the Bhip, for thore wore twice as many persons as the little boat would hold, even if it could reach the shore in that terrible storm. Otto quickly pushed his boat as far as he dared from the side of the ship and called for Therese aud her father. "I won't take one of yon," he shouted, "until they are in the boat." Not one of the men and women on that ship were lost that day, although before the sun set all that could be seen of the great vessel was a piece of broken spar, hold up gaunt and naked through the dashing spray and waves. Before Otto had reached the shore the life-saving crew had gathered on the shore, and they drew his little craft tip through the dangerous breakers. Then they sent out the big lifeb oat, and the rest of the to wnspeople and then the crew, where taken off. Eleanor fainted before they reached the shore, aud Therese had her taken to the little cottage on tho shore. There she cared for her as tenderly as a sister would. All the jealousy was gone. Eleanor was in a condition that excited pity rather than any less gen tle emotion. That evening Therese and Ottd walked together down to the chair on the shore. The wind was blowing fu rious and the waves were booming on the shore, but the lovers, for they were lovers again, did not mind these things. "Oh, it froze the blood inmy veins,'? said Otto, "when I saw the storm com ing and feared that I would not reach you in time." "Bnt it was God's storm," answered Therese, smiling, "for it sunt you back to me." Boston Globe. Trapping the Marten. Marten trapping requires great skill and experience. The favorite haunts of the little robber are the pine for ests, especially where dead or burnt timber abounds. Its food consists of anything it can catch by craft or cun ning yonng birds aad eggs, squirrels, the lesser rodents and rabbits. The trap most frequently used is a fall trap. The fall trap is of Indian in vention and a very ingenious contriv ance. A half circle is first built of large stones to the height of about three feet. Then a heavy tree is laid across the entrance, one end being raised and supported on a contrivance very like the ftgure-of-four trap used by boys for catching small birds, a dainty bit of rabbit or ruffed grouse skinned is hung on a projecting stick built into the back of the semioircle of stones. The little poacher can only get at the bait by creeping under the tree, then seizing it, and finding him self unable to pull it down ho backs out, tugging the string to which the bait is attached along the stick, on which rests the figure fonr supporting the tree. Just as the center of his back comes under the fall or tree he loosens the support by tugging the meat off the stick, then down it falls on him, killing him instantly but do ing no damage to the fur. The winter1 fur is by far the most valuable, and the Indians say tho first shower of rain after the snow disappears spoils' the marten. A good marten skin is worth in the trade from $2.50 to $3. Very fine ones come from tho western slopes of the Cascade and coast range of moun tains; the farther north tho darker and better are the skins. Chicago Times. To Utilize Sea Currents. A Greek engineer, w ho was educated in the United States, has conceived a plan for lighting the city of Constan tinople, and all the Bosphorus from Cavak, as far as the historic village of San Stefauo, by means of three very powerful machines to be erected on the three points of the Bosphorus whore the current has an extraordinary force, that is to say, at Arnaout-Keui, Can dilly and at Serai-Bournou, at the en try of the coast port of the sea of Mar mora, The project has appeared to be so practical and realizable that a com pany of capitalists has been formed, the necessary funds subscribed, and a demand of a concession has been ad dressed to the Turkish Government. The latter, on tho other hand, hus taken the project into serious consideration, aud, without losiug time, has nominated a commission ad Loo toexiftnine the de tails and draw up an oflicial detailed report. How The Indians Trade. As the furs American furs in gen eral are brought in by tho Indians they are traded by the person iu charge of the trade shop. If an In dian briugs 100 skins of different sorts, or all alike, be trades off every skin separately, and insists on pay ment for each skin as it is handed over the counter. Hence it often takes several days to barter a batch of skins. The skins, as purchased, are thrown behind tho counter, and after ward carried to the fur room, piled iu great heaps, aud constantly turned and aired. Iu the spring, as soon as the snow is gone, generally in April, the skins are put into eighty pound bales, tied upon horses, aud shipped! to market. Chicago Times. FLYING OVER THE OCEAiY A CONTEMPLATKD AERIAL TRIP ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. Professor Hazen's Hope, a Balloon With a Ills; Ducket, a Life-boat and a Pilot Car. T "VROFESSOB HAZEN, of th I United States Weather Bureau, I is going to make an aerial voy S' age across tho Atlantic. He will travel with a balloon. It will be directed by means of propellers and a rndder, and it is expected to stay afloat two weeks or more, though the trans oceanio trip may require only fifty hours. The balloon will be a small one com paratively speaking. Professor Hazon considers that an envelope containing 100,000 cubio feet should be plenty big enough for a vogage to Europe. If enough cash for the purchase of such a one cannot be got, the attempt may be made in a balloon of 50,000 cubio feet. The chief difficulty met with in aerial voyages is leaking of gas. But science has recently learned how to construct balloons that will not leak. The material used is goldbeaters' skin, which is obtained from a part of the intestines of the ox, called the "caecum." The goldbeaters' skin comes ia small sheets, the biggest obtainable being twenty-two by ten inches. It looks somewhat like oiled tissue to theeye, but it is not porous. Six layers put together make about the thickness of letter paper, with nearly the same weight as silk. However, fonr thick nesses will serve for a balloon, the sheets being overlaid upon each other in such a way that there are no joints or seams. The first step in the con struction of the balloon is to make a cloth bag of exactly the size required, which is oiled and inflated. Then the goldbeaters' skin is laid over the out side of it, one thickness at a time, being made to adhere in a manner which is yet a secret Finally the cloth bag is taken out, and you have your balloon. The balloon will be filled with hy drogen, whioh has a lifting power of seventy pounds for each 1000 cubic feet The bag, contemplated to hold 100,000 cubio feet, will thus have a total lifting power of 7000 pounds. It is estimated that the whole aerial ma chine, including the net basket, drag rope, anchor, etc., will weigh 800 pounds. Three men will add a weight of 450 pounds, and 250 pounds more may be allowed for provisions and water. This reokoning leaves a mar gin of 5500 pounds, which would be taken along as ballast in the shape of eand and in bags. At a great height the gas has a ten dency to escape at the neck of the bag. In order to avoid th;.t contin gency Professor Hazon intends to have a small balloon hitched alongside of the big one, the necks of the two being joined together. When the hydrogen flows out of the large neck of the bag it will enter the little one and will not be lost. The sun shining on a balloon heats it and causes the gas to expand, so that it is apt to escape at the neck. The gas can be returned to the big balloon by simply pulling down the small one. At times it is desirable to keep at a low level when the high current is in the wrong direction. Professor Haz en's plan is to lower a large bucket from the basket near the sea. This could be filled with water by means of a small pail as fast as weight might be required to hold the balloon down. The big bnoket could readily be emp tied from the oar, when desired, by opening a valve in its bottom. It is most important that the aero naut should be able to place his bal loon at any level of the atmosphere he pleases. Of oourso, the currents of air at varions elevations commonly flow in different directions. There may be an unfavorable wind at 1000 feet, and at the same time just the right breeze may blow at 10,000 feet. Professor Hazen thiuks of taking with him a small pilot balloon, which may be run up to the height of a milo above the great gas bag, so as to ascertain the direotion of the breeze at a higher level without taking the trouble to as cend in order to find out It is proposed to employ means of a simple nature for direoting and pro pelling the balloon. There will be no complicated machinery, but merely a rudder and propellers. The latter will bo worked by man power, very likely by the feet, bioyolo fnshion. Prob ably the propeller shnf t will be made to project both ways, having a screw in front, thus getting doublo power and incidentally preserving the bal ance. The attempt will not be made with out trying a preliminary voyage from Denver to Now York, or, perhaps, from San Francisco to New York. If that can be accomplished there should bo no difficulty about crossing the ocean. To como back across the At lantic would not bo practicable, be cause the air currents are iu the op posite direction. In order to return by balloon it would be necessary to go all around the world, reaching San Fraucisoo by way of the Pacific Professor Hazen thiuks there is no reason why balloon voyages around tho globe should not be made some day. Ho believes that the North Polo will eventually bo arrived at by aerial navigation. The professor's air ship, holding 100,000 cubic feet of gas, will cost 5000 or $1)000. He can get one with a capacity of 50,000 cubic feet for $3000. One of his ideas is to make tho basket a life boat, so that it will serve for a journey by water iu case of accident to the balloon. Boston Transcript. Only forty -five per cent, of Vasbar graduates marry. A MAN MISJUDGED. The world goes by. and fancios he is cold. Self-wrapt In coils of egotistic thought Fettered with links of subtle cobweb, wrought By selfish meditation. Men have told Each other laughingly that once he sold Ilia heart for love ot knowledge that hi bought A calm content (so oft and vainly sought) By breaking every dear affection's hold. They read him lightly ; he has never known The loose emotions that can weep at will, The void that makes each passing wind its own , Yet In his breast are caverns hard to fill Not to bo fattiomed by the careless stone Of thoso that cast to show their petty skill. He is of alien character to thoirs Who brand him with their foolish, worth loss scorrt ; His careless seeming is a vesture worn To hldo the troubled front of many cares , Beneath the cloak of callousness he bears A beating heart. With sorrow often torn i He has a burden heavy to be borne Of love and sympathy! his thoughts are pray'rs. When most he seems unheedful he is sad For that vast trouble which is life's below Longing to teach the tearful to be glad, The helpless hopeful wearying to know What food for famished spirits may be had, What solace for the mass ot human woe. Arthur C. SalmoD, in Temple Bar. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Man's a fool and Cupid can prove it, Galveston News. Every dog has its time, especially the watch-dog. Statesman. Apropos of college colors, the favor ite seems to be yeller. Philadelphia Record. Football players might rightly be classed as chronic kickers. Hartford Journal. "This is a still hunt," said tho man who was looking' for moonshiners. Union County Standard. It is a trying ordeal to be drawn on a jury and quartered in a fourth-rate hotel. Boston Transcript. Sewing schools are not a bad idea. Girls generally are not too much stuck on the needle. Philadelphia Times. A man is very much like a razor, be cause you can't tell how sharp he can be until he is completely strapped. Siftings. Jillson says that the man who is hab itually non-committal has no business on a police court bench. Buffalo Courier. He "What do you think of crema tion? Do you believe in if?" She "No ; I think it is a burning shame.'' Rochester Democrat. . This question every man must face ! As he looks his flannels through); 'Must I purchase a new stock, I Or can I make these do?" ; Dnnsville (N. Y.) Breeze. There is a great deal of truth in the saying that politics makes strange bed fellows. Ballots of all parties lie to gether in the ballot box. Harrisburg Patriot. No marriage engagement should be more than six months long ; the most ardent lover gets tired of living up to his girl's ideal any longer than that. Atchison Globe. Mrs. Wickwire "JuBt think" Mr. Wickwire "Guess I'll have to. 1 never get a chance to do anything else when yon have started in to talk. " Indianapolis Journal. Fin de Siecle Young Ladies : Fond Mother "My daughters have received a thoroughly practical education ; each of them is capable of making work for ten sorvont8." Fliegende Blatter. She's delicate, she s tender, often time ot frail physique, She is dove-like, she Is gentle, she is mild and she is meek, She is modest and retiring, but somehow she Units her way Through the crowd to reach the oouuter ou a bargain day. New York Press. "Sakes alive," said grandma, "what will they think of next? Here's an advertisement in the pBpor 'Watches Reduced. ' I ain't got any watches that's too bi;,-, but if they would re duce our big clock about ouo-half, I thiuk I'd lik3 it 'better." Dausville (N. Y.) Breeze. "What is the matter with Diekie Van Wibbles? I saw him in the gym nasium just uow going through tho most horrible facial contortions." "Oh, that's all right. Dickie is de veloping his facial muscles, so as to get a good grip ou his monocle. " Washington Star. "See hero," exclaimed tho red headed woman in wrath, "if you ain't out of this yard in ten minutes I de clare I'll run this umbrella down your throat aud open it." "There, ain't a bit o' use of thut, mum," responded Dismal Dawson ; "anybody that's as dry inside as I am ain't needin' no umbrella in him." Indianapolis Jour nal. Wolves lu Maine. It has boon long since any wolves wero reported iu Maine, but the latest news is tlnit a few have got across the border. Word comes from Spencer Pond that one was shot near there the other day. A woman at u eump about twelve miles from Spencer haviug ven tured Home distance from the ciunp was chased by o wolf clear up to her own door, and believes she hcurd two or threo more ot the beasts tot tar be hind. Ou her Hrrival a man at the camp snatehed a gun, rushed out and shot tho beast before ho had time to retreat to the woods. Lewiutou Jour nal. , Tiie Tree as a Compass. The points of the compais can bo told from trees by the following simple observations: The side of the trees on which the most of the moss is found is the north. If the tree is exposed to tho mil the heaviest and longest limbs will be ou the south side, t
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