L THE FOREST REPUBLICAN It itltok tnmrt Wdsiay, kf J. E. WENK. One la Btnaarbaugli A Co.' Boildln ILM ITBMT, tionbta, r, Term. ... luo M'Tur. nkerh4lm menHfrA tm ft skrtr frtoi ti tare n.ntha. Oorraapotidame wUette- fr al mtU mt tbt oontry. N Uc will takaa f unnoai wnutctuau. RATIS OF ADVERTISING! HOR PUBLICAN. One Sqoar, on ineta, on Inwrtluw. .1 (A On. Square, on Inch, on month. . ., I 09 On Fqu.ro, on inoh, three month., (00 On Hquare, on Inch, on J ear ...... It 00 Two Hqnarn, on fnr IS OC Quarter Column, on ;mt WOC Half Column, on year MOO On Column, on year. liX) HI LC1 a1 vert um man ta t niti par Um ach iiuwrtioik Marrmeea and death notice gratU". All bills for vearlv advertisement en VOL. XXVII. NO. 1. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1894. $1.00 PER ANNUM. quarterly. Temporary adTertisuet I b paid in ad vane Job work cub on delivery. KE The total income of the Church of England in about $1,000,000 a week. Nearly 400 tons of mail matter are handled daily by New York letter car riers. Brigandage him greatly increased in Spain because of the poverty prevail ing among the country people. The marriago statistics of every country show that widowers are more prone to marry maidens than to take widows. ' London's debt wan increased last year by $0,000,000 and now amounts to $150,055,000. The revenue of the city for the Inst fiscal year was $23, 1 GO, 000. Joaquin Miller says that there is no ' danger that tho ginnt trees of Cali fornia will bo exterminated, as you may find small seqiioiaB in almost every dooryard in the State. The ways of Providence, R. I., are strange to the Philadelphia Ledger. A number of the city's unemployed who were put to work on city improve ments, have struck, rather than work ten hours a day. Lord Chief Justice Coleridge has de cided that it is best that clorymcn tihould not tako part in criminal in vestigation. Ho declined to swear the Rev. .Thomas Coney to nerve on tho Orand Jury at tho Berkshire Assizes recently. ' Ferris, tho man of the World's Fair wheel, offered $10,000 a year to tho projectors of tho new Manhattan Building, on Broadway, iu New York City, if they would build a tower on it and give him the elevator rights. The Manhattan will be the tallest and ugliest bnilding in New York, alleges the Chicago Herald. There is no such a thing as "next Senate," and so long as the Constitu tion lasts there never will be. The Senate of the United States is an eternal body. It never dies. It is to day exactly the same assembly which met for the first time in 1789. Every seoond year it undergoes a change of membership, the terms of one class of members expiring. But that change neither ends the old body nor makes n new one. Effingham B. Wilson, of Brooklyn, has discovered somewhere on Long Island perfect mine of Indian arrow heads. He keeps the secret of the lo cation to himself, and, according to the New York Mail and Express, is obliged to keep a sharp lookout for inquisitive spectators, who would like to follow him when he starts out to make a collection.. Mr. Wilson has been offered a large sum for the arrow heads he has already in .hnnd, but the offer was refused. When tho collec tion reaches 301)0 heads it will be the most extensive in the country. Rev. Christopher Dowidat, pastor of a Lutheran church at Oshkosh, Wis., has expelled a printer from his church for being a union man, declares the New York Tress. Ho says unionism is against the commandments of God. "To strike is taking advantage of the capitalist, and this is against the com mandment Thou shalt not steal.' Further, you shall honor your em ployer the same as a child honors its parents. God made rich and poor. God will not let a Christian starve. Those people who are sutTuriug in the cities are not Christians." Mr. JVwi dat believes that ' the workingmen should take what they are offered by the capitalists and thauk God if they can get anything at all. If they can't get work it is God's will. The mining craze seems to have struck some portions of Georgia and Alabama pretty hard. A score or more of new gold mines have been opened in these States within the last three or four months note the St. Louis Republic, aud a good many old ones are being worked as they were never before. George Huntington Clark predicts in the Manufacturers' Record that iu the immediate future the gold fields of Georgia are going to surprise the old doubters as much as the development of Southern iron did. The richest gold mines of that State are as yet untouched, he says. Georgia's gold belt covers a Btrip of country from twenty to forty miles wide, an 1 extending across the State from northeast to southwest, enibrao iug shout 7000 square miles. It runs into Alabama aud spreads out over some 3500 square miles more in that Stule. Georgia's mines have so far produced over $16,000,000 worth of gold and silver, or more thsn those of iiny other Southern Siute except Xvtlk Carolina. Seventy years ago there was one homoeopathic physician in the United Stales, where now there are 80,000. It has been figured out that the cost of the United States Senate, an ex pense borne by the people of the United States, is $8400 a day. Edmund Yates says that Queen Vic toria offored to make Mr. Gladstone an Earl or Mrs. Gladstone a Peeress in her own right; but the Grand Old Man declined. The Arizona people are indignant at the stories of their lawlessness, which have been published recently. They are rcportod by the New Orleans Picayune to say that such roports are false, and that if they can catch the newspaper man who started them they will lynch him out of hand. The Baltimore Manufacturers' Rec ord reports that there are now in the South 400 cotton mills, with 2,768,879 spindles and 62,052 looms; capital invested, $97,000,000, as against $21, 976,000 in 1880. In 1860 there wero in the South 161 cotton mills, with 667,854 apindles. North Carolina has the largest number of mills. The death of Publisher Monro in New York shows to the San Francisco Chronicle that the vermiform appen dix is playing an important part in the surgery of the period. The dan ger that results from tho lodgment of Beods of fruits and berries in this use less part of the anatomy cannot be too strongly impressed upon all, and especially upon those who have the care of children. 'Grape seed, in par ticular, should not be swallowed by those who have any regard for their health. W. B. Muller, of Oniab eight hour day "would bry bont in creased consumption, a V display of productive activity, a .a-er intel lectual and moral development of the toiler and a wider demand for the more artistio products of our factories and workshops. It would stimulate inventive genus, develop better and grander civilization and bring about an almost fabulous increase of national property and wealth. The general struggle for a reduction of the hours of labor is a struggle for better civilization, a straggle for work for willing hands who should be em ployed. " "Is it not nearly time that some re striction was put upon the disposition of surgeons in this town to slice open their fellow-creatures in the interest of the complaint called appendicitis?" asks New Y'ork Life. "That late ab surd and lamentable operations have cost the lives of useful citizens, will strengthen our opinion, which begins to be pretty generally current tbst ap pendicitis is epidemic iu the minds of tho metropolitan surgeons, aavi that humnn life would be safer in New York if the operation was forbidden except by order of a court. The publio knows altogether too much about ap pendioitis, and the doctors altogether too little. Two-fifths of the genuine cases result from scare in the patients, and one or two more fifths of all the coses exist only in tho imaginations of the surgeons. The cure of such legit imate cases as are left is not worth whst it costs. Appendicitis is played out. The invention of the operation for it has changed a very rare malady into a common and dangerous disease." Harold Frederic, who is a close ob server in English politics, is of opin ion that the resignation of Mr. Glad stone is .due not to the fact that his eyesight is failing or to the fa.'t that he is growing feeble, but to the fast that he has been losing influence with his own administration. The theory is that his cabinet was out of sympathy with him in many things and went its own way regardless of his wishes. Rosebery was becoming more of a power than the Grand Old man, and so the latter dropped a hint of retire ment after the manner of Bismarck, aud, like Bismarck, was surprised to find that there was no clamor against his going. Id other words, Gladstone is represented as being edged off the ist age by his young men. The danger in his retirement does not lie so much in the loss of his personality, powerful as that is, as in the loss of that pecu liar thing called leadership. Rosobery or auy one else can be made the official head of the ministry and the leader of the liberal party ; but no one can in herit the geueral confidence of tho party and its sympathizers throughout the world in Gludstone. This is a great source of power which he cannot transmit. The new leader will have party discipline to support him, but he will have to create party sentiment and popular sentiment THE FAITHFUL HEART. Wherever I am led by fate, In regions wild and desolate, Or In the hurrying crowd, more rode And alien far than solitude, One blessed truth in shine and storm, Consoles my heart and keeps It warm i One Under soul, through good and 111, Remembers, holds, and helps me still. In mountain gorge, on treeless plain, In weary wastes unhlest by rain, Or nelllsh cities, lonelier far Than wilderness and desert are, One fane Is ever by my side, My shield and guardian, friend and guide ; A face that none bnt I eon see The face of her who thinks of me. Though miles on miles stretch wearily Between that faithful heart and me, I know Itsunforgettin; grace Can bridge all distance, time and space, Can send a blessing from afar However wide my wanderings are, And be, wherever I may stray, My Are by night, my cloud by day. I spread my blanket on the ground, Remote from human sight and sound, Aud as my sxnses swim to sloop Amid the silence wide and deep, The wind by which my cheek Is fanned Seems like her kind, caressing hand, And in each wandering star, I see The face of her who prays for me, O tender light, shine soft Her yet I O watchful eyes, do not forget I O helpful heart, my strength renew, And keep me safe, and hold me true I O gentle face, still kindly beam, Sustain my sonl, Inspire my dream, Bn now and always, near and far. My hope, my guide, my polar star ! " Elizabeth Akers, In Worthlngton's. THAT VITAL CLEW. ILBERT STAN ton lived in cha m b e r s in White's Inn and was reading for the har. Wild, who justified his name, was an old college acquain tance who had at tempted several things in life and failed in all. Gilbert had not seen him in sev eral years, when Wild turned up at his chambers and announced that he was "stone broke." Stanton reproached Wild for his dissipated habits, and declined to ren der him any assistance. Ray m on 1 Wild was hot blooded and high words ensued. The quarrel was at its height when Mrs. Morton, Gil bert's old laundress, who had been completing her morning duties in an other room, closed the door of the chambers and passed out. Shortly afterward the tempers of the two men cooled. Wild apologized for some offensive remarks he had made, and they shook hands. Gilbert now promised to do his best to help his old acquaintance, and invi ed Wild to remain an hour while he went to keep an appoiutment. When Gilbert Stanton returned he mounted the stairs to the door of his chambers, but did not immediately enter. He stood for a few minutes on the landing, considering what course he should adopt with regard to the man inside. As he leaned against the door, smok ing a cigarette, he was startled by a loud explosion inside. He hastily unlocked the door aud went iu. Stretched upon the floor was Raymond Wild dead ! The evidence at the inquest was simply this: The police, when called in, had found the dead body of a man, identified as Raymond Wild, with a bullet wound in his head. A revolver was also discovered which Gilbert Stauton had admitted was Ihb, and the contents of one chamber had been discharged. Mr. Stanton had said: "The man committed suicide. I was not inside tho chambers at the time." William Carey, a solicitor's clerk, dopdose that he was looking out of the office, window on the ground floor when he saw Mr. Gilbert Stanton enter the building, and heard him run up the stairs. About five minutes afterward cer tainly when ample time had elapsed for Mr. Stanton to enter his chambers he heard the explosion., Eliza Morton, Mr. Stanton's laun dress, had admitted the deceased on the morning in question, and noticed when leaviug that the two gentlemen were "having some words. " His defense was that Wild had found the revolver during his absence ; that he was standing outside the door of his chambers, as we have described, when the shot was tired ; that although they had quarreled they were on pacific terms wheu he went out, aud that the deceased had left a written confession of his own guilt aud Gilbert's inno cence. But where was this written confes sion? Gilbert Stanton declared that he found it on the bed room mantel piece, but during the excitement of the hour had mysteriously lost or mis laid it. He had searched everywhere for it, but without avail. He distinctly remembered that, af ter examining the body, he placed the paper on a small table in front of him, and glancing out of the window, saw a policeman iu the quadrangle Ho at once decided to call tho constable and ran downstairs to do so, leaviug his door ajar. On his return the paper had disap peared, and he never saw it afterward. The most diligent search had failed to discover it. "Now, Mrs. Morton, they stood alone iu " said Edith as the vUantbers, "this is a matter of life and death. That piece of paper must be found. Tea, miss," was the laundress" commonplace reply. "First of all yon must please answer very carefully some questions I shall put to you. Did you on that day de stroy any paper?" "ho, miss. "Have yon destroyed or removed any since?" "Not a scran, miss. You see there ain't no fires t his time o' the year, and the little cooking I does is all done on the gas stove." Everything was being turned upside down and inside out, when Edith sud denly stopped. Do you remember whether the win dows were open on that day?" she asked. "Yes, miss; Mr. Stanton alwayBUse to 'ave 's winders open." "Well, just open them as they would be if he were here." The woman did as she was bid. Edith then placed a pioce of paper on the table where Gilbert said he had laid the confession, the door loading into the bed room and the entrance door hav ing first been opened. There was considerable draught, and the paper trembled on the table. "Perhaps there was more air on that day," said Edith. "I will substitute a lighter pieoe of paper." This she did, and almost immediate ly it was caught by a current, and it fluttered across the room. As it fell on the floor they were startled to see a little kitten spring from the open doorway and pounce upon the paper, rolling over and over with it in her teeth." "Lor", miss," suddenly broke in Mrs. Morton, "now I remember I When the gent shot 'isself I was work ing in the 'ouse opposite, and came back to see what was the matter. That little kitten belongs to the party in the next set, and wheu I came up to the landing she was playing just like that with a bit o' paper, which she runs away with and leaves on the stairs." "Yes," said Edith, in breathless eagerness. "Well, paper about the stairs looks so untidy, miss, so I picked it up and" "What did you do with it?" "I threw it in the pail with the other rubbish." For the second time the contents of the pail was emptied by tho laundress and carefully examined. It was abso lutely certain that the paper was not there. Edith sent the laundress home, Bhnt herself in the solitary chambers and began the hunt afresh. Next morning she returned to her hopeless task. Mrs. Morton she had relieved from further attendance, and was walking up and down the cham bers in thought when there came a knock at the door. It was the laun dress herself. "I know where that bit o' paper is, miss! I stays a bit in the kitchen just to see if I might be of any use, you understand aud while 1 was waiting I puts a new candle in the candlestick. Thera 'nines' is rather small for the candlestick, so I takes a bit o' paper out o' the pail to make it tit. Come into the bed room, miss. Why, it's gone." "I was here late lost night and I burnt the candle very low -and the paper took fire!" "And you burnt it, miss!" "Only slightly, I remember. I blew it out, threw the paper away and put in a new candle that I removed from the piano. I threw it under the grate. Thank heaven, we have found it at last!" "There is nothing here, miss," said the woman on her knees. "The grate is quite empty I You can take my word for it, that paper's bewitohed." "I don't care whether it is bewitchod or not," said Edith. "I mean to find it. Fetch me that magnifying glass from tho table in the next room." Edith removed the fender and care fully examined the dust that Mrs. Mor ton's not over scrupulous cleanliness had allowed to accumulate. "I thought as much," she said. "Mice! Tuev have been attracted bv the candle grease, aud have dragged the paper to their hole. They searched around about every where, but no mouse holo could be found. Edith then directed the woman to mix a quantity of whiting, which she placed in a large fiat dish in the floor in the middle of the room. In the dish was laid a small saucer, and in that a piece of toasted cheese. When tuey returned there was a track of little white footprints across the room that led to a little hole above the narrow skirting board, hidden by a loose piece of wall paper. A man was called iu, and after breaking down some of the plaster aud taking up a corner of the flooring, the coveted scrap of paper was at last se cured. The confession was iu part de stroyed, and retpiired very delicate haudliug, but when the precious reliu had been carefully mouutedouauother piece of Dapcr it was found to read as follows, the words in parentheses be ing supplied on supposition : " (I am) sick of my lite aud (re solve) to put an end to it. In case sus picion falls on Gilbert Stauton (ho is) innocent. I die (by my) own hand. "Raymond Wild." Edith is now Mrs. Stautou, aud her husbaud insists that he owes his life to the persistent ami intelligent manner iu which she followed up that vital aud mvsterioiiN clew. Yynacio Garcia, of Buena Vistu, t'ul., is 113 years of age, as is shown by iuoonteotiule records. Ho is ereet aud strong, and bus the full use of his faculties. He buttled iu Los Angeles iu 1S25. SCIENTIFIC ASD INDUSTRIAL. Underground photography ad- vancing. By using a microphone, yon can hear a fly walk. Steel rails, it is said, nverago 130 tons per mile, iron 145. San Antonio, Texas, is said to be a very desirable resort lor consump tives. The Pennsylvania Railroad locomo tives between Jersey City and Fitts- bnrg burn $40,000 worth of coal daily. Dr. Quintard, of France, has inven ted a dolicnte surgical instrument for gauging tho trembling of nervous peo ple. A retired French naval officer has invented a rifle which is capable of firing two kinds of explosive bullets at once. The Kansas University is excavating a tunnel under its various buildings through which all of them will bo heated. The New York Health Board has de clared consumption a communicable disease and auuounces a vigorous plan of procedure to prevent its spread. Sewing machines driven by electric motors have been fitted up in a lnrsfo costume establishment in Paris. The current is obtained from tho streot mains. The meteorological stations in Ja pan, of which there are forty, are be ing connected togother by telephone. Thirteen stations are already in com munication. Kansas capitalists talk of piping natural gas from Neodesha, where it was recently discovered, to the zino fields of southeastern Kansas and southwest Missouri. A powerful telescope may reveal as many as forty-threo million Btars, of a number of which the light takes two thousand seven hundred years to tra verse the intervening space. Coffee is intoxicating if taken in sufficient quantities, thongh differing in its effects from alcoholic stimulants. The nerves may be disturbed in a de gree approaching delirium tremens. M. Dufosse, a French savant, de clares that fishes can talk. They can, lie declares, produce certain sounds at will by t he vibration of certain specially designed muscles. These vibrations are caused by a little air bladder, which is alternately distended and ex hausted. The timber line in the Rocky Mount inns runs as low as vouu leet and as high as 12,400. It has been observed that on the south slope of Mount Mc- Clellan, in Colorado, pines two feet in diameter and thirty feet high live and increase in sizo at an elevation of 12, 400 feet. The winter st that elevation is long, the cold is intense, and tho snowstorms are of terrifio violence, The Massachusetts State Board of Health concludes, from investigations of artificial ice, that artificial processes of freezing concentrate the iiupttri ties ot the water in tne inner core of the portion lust frozen, that the impurities are least if distilled water is used, that the number of bacteria in artificial ice is insignificant under tho prevailing methods of manufac ture, and that the amount of zinc found in ice is insufficient to cause in jury from its use. The "Elephant Man." The person whoso name will go into the book that will some day be com piled on "Curiosities Respecting Hu man Beings" as tho "Elephant Man," died in a London hospital iu the early part of the year 1890. Tho poor fel low was afflicted with two of the most terrible diseases known to the phy sicians and surgeons overgrowth of the boues and tumorous excrescences of tho skin. Two enormous bony out growths developed on his forehead, aud later on the bones of the upper jaw, nose, right arm aud both feet grew to giguntio proportions. The sliin disease caused great rlaplike masses of flesh to hang from different portions of his body, particularly from tho faco and head. Tho uoso was the facial feature upon which lh? dis ease seemed to have taken special spite, tho overgrowth of bone, flesh and skin causiug it to haug down so as to give tho man a very repulsive, ele phantine appearance. Jut-t before his death, the head, which had been in creasing in size with wonderful rapid ity for about four years, attained such proportions that the neck could no longer hold it erect. During tho whole of the lust year of his life he slept in a crouching position, with his hands clasped around his legs aud his enormous head resting on his knees and arms. St. Louis Republic. Some Costly Banquets. There are some costly banquets re corded iu tho world's history, aud one supper, given by Aelius Verus, tooted iiji nearly a quarter of a million dol lars. One dish ut the table of the Em peror llclittgabulus. Cost $200,(100. Cleopatra's banquet to Antony was a sumptuous affair, slid the queen tool, a pearl ear-drop worth $50,000, dis solved it iu strong acid, drinking the health of the triumvir, saying, "My draught to Autotiy shall exceed iu value the whole banquet." Wheu Queen Elizabeth visited tho exchange in London, Sir 'J'lionius Givshaui pledged her health iu a cup of wine containing a precious stone crushed to atoms, worth $7.",l'dU. In IS77 the I Impress of Hrazd presented to Queen Victoria h dress iiiiulo from spiders' webs. Tin. web was made by tli.' huge yellow spiders ol Ib'nzil, the liber be ing large, of a bl ight oiauge color, silky, and possessing au exqui .it bis ter. Its val-io or cost of niuiiiil'a .-ire is unknown, but it ranks its on- in 'i curiosities uf the wot Id. St. Lou liepublic. ROMANCE OF COTTON SEED. ONCE DESPI8ED, IT NOW DIVIDES KINO COTTON'S THRONE. Formerly Cast Away as Hefose, AH But the Dirt Is Now Utilized -Its Many Uses. OME of the most maivelous and thrilling romances are such as pertain to actual bus iness life, and recount the achievements of wonderful men, even along purely financial lines. For in stance, the pen of a master might be worthily employed in writing the ro mance of the cotton seed. There is a rebellion in the family of King Cot ton. A few years ago he held undis puted sway aud his youngest son, Cot ton Seed, was considered a very insig nificant and comparatively worthless member of the family, his only merit being his ability to propagate the royal stock. Now it isqnite different, as the youngster hos developed unsus pected good qualities, and is making rapid progress toward displacing nis father in the affections of the people. Five years ago, when the Southern planter gathered his cotton and sold it, he paid very little attention to tne seed. He saved enough of it to raise his next year'a crop, and, if conveni ent, kept a few bushels more to feed the milk cows around his farm. Some times he carted off a few wagon loads to dump on an old field as a fertilizer, and often he refused to haul it away from the gin at all. The amount that rotted around Buch places was im mense. When any was sold, it com monly brought five cents a bushel, pro vided the farmer was not ashamed of taking anything for such a commo dity. Even three years ago, in many soctions of the South, eight cents for a bushel of cotton seed was considered a good price. This year the price was often as high as twenty-five cents and occasionally reached thirty-two. When cotton itself sells at six cents or seven cents per pound and seed at the prices mentioned the farmers begin to feel as if they would like their cotton to be all seed. As it is. the seed not nn- frequently constitutes one-fourth or even one-third the value of the whole crop. So important a matter has it become that to-day one single com pany the American Cotton Oil Com panyhas $40,000,000 invested in handling cotton seed products. The seeds themselves are of an ir regular oval shape, measuring perhaps a quarter of an inch in their greatest diameter. They are unprepossessing looking little bodies, and are covered with short white, hairy-looking fibres. These last are cotton staples that the gin has not picked quite clean. A Northern man might have difficulty in guessing what the seeds are. Bito one of them in two and you find a white, pulpy substance, tasteless and nearly odorless. How so many products aud such different ones can be gotten out of such a seemingly simple body is a mys tery. Perhaps nowhere else do we find bo fully illustrated the principle of util izing waste products. Not a single particle of seed goes to waste. AVhen a ton comes to the mill, the thirty-fivo gallons of oil extracted from it weigh about 272 pounds and sell for about twenty-seven cents a galtou. There are 350 pounds of hulls, worth $1 a ton ; 750 pounds of wool, at 820 a ton ; twenty pounds of linters cotton, at three cents a pound, aud about 108 pounds Of dirt, for which there can hardly be said tone ny real market. Cotton seed men are said to Ire aTV.ake at night trying to devise some plan to utilize this dirt, but up to date it con tinues one item that has proven too much for their ingenuity. If the reader will do an addition sum of these figures he will soe that every pound iu the ton is accouutud for; if he will figure a little further ho will find that between $19 and $20 is real ized on each ton handled. When the raw materials costs $15, he can judge whether or not it is likely that just at the present juncture the mills are making much money. The uses to which cotton seed prod ucts are put are almost innumerable. The oil itself is used in making soap, other oils, lard, butterine ami count less other things. We ship immense quantities to Europe especially Rot terdam and bring it back again slightly refined under the name of olive oil and linseed oil. The Armours and other pork mou use large amounts in putting up lard. Cottoline is the name of a new pr.iduct now coming into use as a competitor of lard. Many housekeepers use the oil itself instead of lard aud claim to like it. The menl remaining after tho oil has been ex tracted is fed to cattle, and is said to produce excellent results. The hulls are also fod to cattle. Twenty pounds of hulls and ten of meal make a fill! daily feed for beef steers, and tin cattle ure ready for market in niiit ty duys. The hulls, furthermore, are now being used iu manufacturing pa per. Emil lSohn, of Rreiihuui, Texas, has invented a process for so using them, aud his ideas may cause a com plete revolution in tho paper trade. The oil in its crude state is a clear, reddish-brown liquid that looks not unlike a subslauoe frequently curried by men in flasks in their hip pockets. It has a peculiar oily taste and a very independent, self-assertive kiud of odor. If one may judge from tho odor, cotton seed oil is capable of tak ing care of itself. Most mills produce the oil only in its crude stale, aeudiug it elsewhere to be refined. There is a refinery at Houston, one at St. lauiis, one iu Kansas City uud others at var ious other places of prominence. The rotiued oil sells at Iroiu six to twelve cents a gallon higher thau the unre fined, but, as the work is one requir ing expensive machinery ami skilled labor, it is not generally attempted by the smaller mills. Ci'obe-Dcino- Ut. FAREWELL. I say farewell, but with a sense Of something more than eonfldenoe That It Is not the dismal word, Which, overgrown with gloom, is heard Where tears are shed, where people part The pieces ot a broken heart. And things like that the dreadfnl kind, Which shake the soul and mar the mind. To me, farewell is touch ot hands, A parting on the golden sands, A look to eastward, where the light Shall rise to drive away the night Of separation, which must fall In chilling shadows on us all. To me tt dons not seem the end Of what has been for friend and friend, But through its severance I soe Beginning of what is to be A promise of the future, when . The hands whioh parted, clasp again. These are the sunbeams, which dispel The shadows, when 1 saw farowell. W. J. Lompton, In Dotrolt Free Trees. HUMOR OF THE DAY. A well-known chop house The woodshed. Truth. A man who drives away customers The cabman. Texas Sittings. The reasons of the talkative mortal are mostly sound. Dallas News. Revised Troverb: One man's mas cot is another man's hoodoo. Truth.' An egotist is a man with a prepon derance of I in his constitution. Puck. A broken engagement is, perhaps, in other words, only a drawn battle. Puck. Bonrding-houso coffee is sometimes like tho quality of mercy ; it is not strained, Truth. A woman can usually keep in the fashionable swim if she has a duck of a bonnet. Puck. If "bread is the staff of life," 't is plain that bread-and-butter's a gold headed cane. Puck. First Actor "What are you doing now?" Second Actor "Me friends." Detroit Tree Press. Cleanliness may be next to godli ness ; but it takes lots of advertising to make soap go. Puck. The times are becoming so hard that with many swells the tally-ho has to give way to the trolley-ho. Puck. It is a humanlike trait that the rooster always thinks ho knows most about cackling. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Business is business, uuless the cus tomer happens to be a lady, in which caso it becomes strategy. Oil City Blizzard. Forbearance generally ceases to be a virtue about the time it begins to ineh the party of th first part Mil waukee Journal. Every man has his opinions, but in many instances he picked them up where somebody else dropped them. Galveston News. Mau has been so cruel to woman that it is certainly remarkable that he has never boned her for his rib. Galveston News. If a woman wants a welcome when she gets home sho should leave her husband with the baby when she goes. Atchison Globe. Waiter "Do usual steak, sah?" Regular Customer "No, I am tired to-night. Bring me a plate of hash,1'' Indianapolis Jourafth The uiost radical unbeliever iu superstition is apt to find putting- an other man's name to a bank check a Biiro sign of trouble. Buffalo Courier. Judge "Why did you commit a second theft after yon had just been acquitted of a first charge?" Prisoner "So that I could pay my lawyer." Hallo. Bildad "Did the editor send that joko back to you?" Shuhite "l'os." Bildad "That's funny." Shuhite "The editor said it wasn't." Detroit Freo Press. "Yes, sir, money talks; that is cer tain." Bif.'gs "Well, then, I'd like to hear a little something from that $10 that you have of mine." Chicago I liter-Ocean. Professor "How long should a man's logs be to be in proportion to his body?" Mr. Low-stand "Long enough to reach the ground, sir." l'alo Record. One of the queer things about ju venile humanity is the fuet that the boy who has the meusels is invariably the one whose society is most coveted. Washington Star. A Reminder: Porter "Dear Herr Iiaron, would you be so kind as to put it down iu writiug that you haven't given me a tip this time, else my wife will think I've goue and spent it." Heuiseheider Geueral-Au.eiger. Jillsoii ,ays t hat with all due respect for the old proverb, when the average servant gill gets through with a piece of valuable bric-a-brac it is generally too Into to mend. lintfalo Courier. VYtiat a he.-intiful tUlug 1 thought, said h , A boon il is lo iiivhoI f anil Jiui. 1 sil ami think I hi is tliinMug ol nut And he ails nu l thinks X atu Itiiukiutr of him. Sew York Frees. "I see jou don't cany your beauti ful gold-headed caue any more." '-Vo; I'm reducing my ruauing ex penses." "How is that?" 'The tips come higher to the waiters." New York Herald. "See here,'' said the citizen, as he put a htubby linger down on a copy of t he paper, "dis here item says dat I got a contract workiu' for de State." "Well," said the editor, "we under stood that ni hud bceu awarded a curt ill;; contract." ".So 1 has, aud 1 want you to sy Biiu de Hex' paper Du wav it come out, widoiit suviu' wot ile contra- was, about ball me tiieu'o will t'mk 1 been sent to d ptu." -Indianapolis Journal. y
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers