i r THE FOREST REPUBLICAN to Mbthkrt trny Wtdaetaar, fc. J. E. WENK. Offlo. la Bm.Mb.nih A Co.'. Bufldlns mji rmirr, tionbsta, r. Terms, . . tl.BOp.rY.ar Oorrmponii.ni', nollelt fra U Mrti af th. RATIS OF AOVErtTISIROl ORE EPUBLICAN. On 8qnar, on. I nob, mi Innrtloa. , I On quar, on Inch, on month . . . , 00 On Square, on Inoh, thre month., (00 On t-'quara, on inch, oo year,., . It no '4 wo tSqaarjs, on yar 18 (It Quarter Column, on year, .... W 0C Half Column, on yar 80 00 On Column, on yar 100 "0 Lozal lvrtu.mnt to erat pr Dm ach innrtion. Alarriage and dath notion gratis- All bllli for yearly advertisement aoDaaSr quarterly. Temporary advsrbsemrata awaat b paid in advano. Job work oaah oo dlivry. H VOL. XXVII. NO. 10. TIONESTA, PA.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 8. 1894. S1.00 PER ANNUM. ST Rnsiia proposes to tunnel tho Cau casus for a military railroad. In Austria-Hungary, with a popula tion of 0(1,000,000, there aro 4,000,000 supported nt public expense. It is claimed that better metal ships cn bo built at San Francisco thnn in the East, because l)ottnr wood for the framework can be had there. Canadians are preparing to harness up their sido of Niagara Falls now. "They know a good thing when they see it," re-marks the New Orleans Pio yune. The greatest preponderance of fe males to males is found in the District of Columbia, where the proportion is 110,242 females to 100,000 males. This is due to the extensive employ ment of women in the Oovernment offices. Robert Louis Steveuson's estate in Samoa includes 400 acres of forest land, and is situated nt an elevation ranging from GO:) to 1300 feet. Among the products of his plantation are bread fruit, pineapples, bannas, eocon, India rubber, sugar eane, ginger, Vara, taro, gronadillas, oranges, limes, citrons, coconnuts, mangoes, vanilla, coffee, oinuamou aud guava. Two very ingeuiouscoutrivanees for easing the work of the weary type writer pounder have been recently placed on the market. Tho one is styled, "typewriter prism. " It is a rod of highly polished glass, fastened to the carringo beneath the impres sion roller. Two of its aides aro flat nd inolined to each other at an angle of forty-five degrees; the third is . strong cylindrical curve. This contriv.nco reflects the writing under neath, and the lifting of the carriage to locate an error is thus obviated. The other device is an attachment by which the writer can tell the Lumber of words which he has pounded out of his machine. The question Is a man the owner of his own teeth? has come before a German court at Oera. A man who had been suffering for some time from toothache made up bis mind to have the tooth taken out. The t-tump proved a diflicult one to draw, and when it was out it was of such curious shape that the dentist declared he would keep it as a curiosity. His patient, however, thought he would like to keep it himself, and claimed it; bnt the dentist, on the ground that a tooth, when drawn with the free consent of a patient, is ownerless property as soon as it leaves the jaw, refused to give it np. The patient at once entered an action against tho dentist. A Japanese mosquito-catching plant was exhibited in New York City the other day. The bare meution of such . thing suggests iufinite possibilities to the Tribune. "The real muuo of it is Vincetoxieuni acuminatum, but its name is a matter of no conse quence. What we should like to know is why it has up to the present time been blushing unseen. In tho specimen exhibited every blossom held within its embrace a mosquito, which appeared to be fast beyon 1 possibility of escape. In a little tirao we may expect to see summer hotels and boarding houses announcing in flaming letters that they are fully equipped with large fields devoted to the cultivation of this plant. Why Japan has concealed the treasure so long is a mystery. From what we read in the papers about cowboys, one would be justice I in believing that they were a rough and vulgar lot. A gentleman just from the West, aud who has many cowboys in his employ, surprised us not a little by assuring us that many of these men are well-educated ; that they belong to good families, aud that many of them are not addicted to profanity or intemperance. He also gave us the important information that a herd of half-wild cattle is as timid aud ner vous as so many sheep, and that the herders, who fully understand their peculiarities, are accustomed to soothe them, particularly in the night time, by singing. At the sudden appear ance oi any strange object, or tho sound of any unfamiliar noise, the herd stampede, aud when the cattle get running, thoy are almost as difli cult to chock as a mountain torrent or a prairie fire. At such times, a part of a cowboy's duty is to ride around an 1 around the "bunch" of cattle, singing a song often a hymn as melodiously as he can. Gradually the auiinals are quietod, and come to a halt, aud drop down, one byono, till at length they Are all asleep, and the weary singer can dismount from his panting horse, and giv. bis pwn throat . rest. I'd like to stray through forest aisle Where nature wears her swertest smiles, Where gentle sephyrs all the woodlsnd blos soms woo : There where the wild birds trtl! tholr lays And broklflts loiter on their ways rd Ilk to pluck a little sprig; of benrtsens. Wouldn't your I'd Ilk to roam through meadows fair Where clovar blossoms scent the air. And wnndnr hidden, grass-grown paths and brush away the dew : rd like to hide In tangled dells And listen to the fairy bells, And bathe my tired spirit In muslOj Wouldn't you? O, I wonld quit the flurry, The unending haste ant hurry Of prisoned, wall-bound cities ; I would go where skies are blue. I'd quite forget the grinding mart And lying close to nature's heart I'd steal her sweetest, peaoe-begettttng seorets. Wouldn't you? Chicago Journal. SEMPRONIA. E rather pride our selves upon being small but select small, that is, as a community. "Se lect 1" old Miss Mayberry is re ported to have observed. "They call themselves select, do they? Where were they selected from? That is what I want to know," Of conrse, no one satisfied hor impertinent curiosity. We all knew where we came from, if she didn't, and some of us held strong opinions as to Miss May berry's ultimate destina tion, but that is neither here nor there. Still, it was "rather a startler" when old Mr. Eggleston, of Ber mondsey, came down to Willowtown to live. He was fabulously rich ; he swallowed peas with his knife and called them "marrerfats j" he was im patient, headstrong, cholerio, apoplec tic Two important facts saved him from social ostracism his aldermanio dinners and his daughter Sempronia. It is not very easy to describe Sempronia. Her beauty had an elusive way of defying description. When she entered a room people were vaguely conscious that something pleasant had happened. If you were fortunate enough to take her in to dinner she confirmed that impression. Even mock turtle lost its mockery when she sat beside yon. Not that old Eggleston often put people off with mock turtle; he was far too fond of dipping bis white beard in the gen nine thing to wish to impose imita tions on his guests. Foor Harry Nicholson's troubles, however, began the first time be dined at the Egglestons', owing to Mr. Eg gleston's ambiguous speech. Mr. Eg gleston was gobbling away at his soup, and only left off to observe that he "oouldn't 'eat the 'ot We." "But, my dear sir," observed Harry, "nothing but an ostrich could beat your hothouse." "Don't you be imperenc, young man," retorted Mr, Eggleston, "or you and ma'll 'ave words. I will 'eat it if I like." Sempronia threw oil on the troubled water;, but not before Mr. Eggleston had remarked to the remains of his soup that Harry was "a nordaoious sparrer." Sempronia was very foud of her father. She didn't obtrude the fact, but skilfully contrived to throw her mantle over him at all the social func tions of the neighborhood. It soon beoame an understood thing that any one who poked fun at Mr. Eggleston had no chance of winning the good graoes of his beautiful daughter. Her mother had been a lady a very feeble one and married Eggleston ou ao count of his strongmiudedness. Mrs. Eggleston's relatives were so astounded by the originality of such reason that they cut her. It preyed on Mrs. Eggleston a good deal, but slyj lived very happily with her hus band until Sempronia was born. Then, like Mrs. Dombey, "she could't make an effort" and died I People who saw poor Mr. Eggleston at that awful timo said that he was as one dis traught. He sat by the dead woman, holding her hand, until she was taken away to the grave. Then he fell down in a fit. He was only prevented from following his wife into tho silent land by hearing the doctors say he hadn't a chance of living. In order to con tradict them he recovered. If he couldn't "'eat the 'ot 'ouse" it wasu't for want of trying his jaws on every thing else ho oaine across. Still, with nil his faults, old Mr. Eggleston was much beloved iu Willow town. His speech when he first took the chair at tho "Peuuy Readings" was a model of metaphorical research. "When I look round 'ere," he suid, sticking his determined thumbs well into his white waistcoat, "I asks my self what brings me 'ere, aud I says to maself, says I Money! I've never been properly oddicuted, but I've made Money I I was born in the gutter, so to speak, but I've made Money I I ain't the genuine oouie-ovor-with-William-the-Conqueror aud other-fine-old-crusted-thieves lot (any one can tell I'm not real Dosset, and only oleo margarine), but I've made Money I Nobody'd call ine a new-laid Brahma ; I'm only a sixteeu-to-the-shilliu'-aud-take-me-back-if-'igh-Fronoh-egg, but I've made Money. And now I've made money I menu to rpend it ou people I liko, so I'll be very, glad if you'll all come np to supper whou the performance is over. Mr. Nicholson's agoiu' to sing 'The'eart Bowed Down.' I don't know what it's bowud down about, bnt I d essay it's very pretty." And Mr. Egglestoa. retired amid thunderous applause. Harry Nicholson sang "The Heart Bowed Down" with great effect. "He's always np at the 'all," Mr. Eggleston informed people. He liked Nicholson now, although be couldn't resist call ing him "a confounded young pnppy for sniggerin' beoause I got flummoxed and said 'Mr. Recitation will give a Smith' the other night. He's of a good fam'ly, Nicholson is. I should like my daughter to marry into a good fam'ly. I never was much of a fam'ly man myself, though I dessay I could buy a crest and a Latin mortar at the 'Erald's College. Still, it's a flue thing to have a picture gallery full of beau tiful murderesses and ruffians in armor and Sir 'Ugos andSir Lnnchalots, and Lady Ediths of the white 'and, aud Bitchlike." Sempronia did not object to Nichol son's picture gallery at all. She and Nicholson were always together. Of course, Nicholson was poor. Indeed, his picture gallery was his chief pos session. He was expected to live np to it. People supposed that he did something for a living, bnt no one knew exactly what it was. One day, however, it occurred to him that he was in love. "I'm going away," he said abruptly to Miss Eggleston. They were sitting before the draw ing room fire. It was only 6.30, but just after Christmas it is very dark at that time. Miss Eggleston was clad in black velvet, and what Mr. Eggles ton called "the family dimons" sparkled on -her white neck. Mr. Eggleston always insisted on hor wear ing jewels at dinner. He was mor tally afraid of his suspicious-looking butler, as that stony-hearted func tionary had threatened "to resign" if Mr. Eggleston dared to sit down to dinner in a shooting jacket. "If peo ple don't respect themselves," be had observed. "I do. When I served my Lord of Ditchwater he always dressed for dinner, and I'm not agoin' to de mean myself by waiting on a parvenoo who doVt." That had settled it. Rather than be called by such an awful word as "parvenoo." Mr. Eggleston apologized, aud Porkins buried the hatchet. When Nicholson said that he was going away Sempronia didn't like it at all. Her blue eyes looked into the fire with a rather abstracted air. The firelight played upon her beautiful, if somewhat haughty features. What right a butterman's daughter had to resemble the De Veres of romance it was diflicult to disoover, but she in dubitably did so. Her features were neither faulty faultless nor splendidly null ; they certainly were very beau tiful. "Going away I" she asked. "Surely, Mr. Nioholson, this is rather a sudden freak." Nicholson rose from his chair and stood looking down on her. He was black as a crow, but with a prepossess ing blackness. He had a very musi cal voice, his gayety was infectious, and poople lingered to listen to his laughing witticisms. But he did nob seem inclined to bo funny to-night. For so mercurial a youth he was de cidedly serious. His hand twisted the beautiful stud in bis immaculate shirt front. Altogether he wa9 very preoc cupied. The rug wasn't big enough. He trod on the St. Bernard and was stricken with remorse. "Such an owl is well out of the way," he said. "Miss Eggleston, I'll go." "You forget that you dine with us. " "Oh, no ; I don't forget. Perhaps you will let me off. I'm not fit for the giddy throng to-night." "It isn't a giddy throng. There will bo papa and Mr. Oubbins. True, Mr. Gubbins is volatile away from Mrs. Gubbins- but you cannot call papa giddy." "No. I'm off to-morrow. In fact, I've made a discovery." "In the picture gallery? Or buried treasure iu the paddock?" "Don't sooff at my poverty," he said with repressed feeling. "Don't scoff at that. God knows I never felt it un til to-night." "And why to-night?" "To-night?" with assumed, indiffer ence. "Well, even the lightest-hearted fellow finds Black Care perching on his shoulder sometimes. I I was actually thinking this afternoon." "No wonder you are tired." But she didn't look at him. "Yes; funny, wasn't It? Actually thinking. What do you think I thought about?" "I don't know. Something inter esting?" "I can't say that. It seemed inter esting tome." She smiled. "I went up to the gun room, and flung myself into a chair." "And lit a cigar?" "Well, yes. When a man thinks, he's bound to light up ; can't help it." "So you lit np?" "Yes, I lit up. Then I sat down again ; then I got up ; then I sat dowu. Nearly wore out the chair before I'd liuihhed." "That was serious." "it was. I wanted something. I Didn't know what I wanted, so called I iitv4ilf iminoH anil ltit.ched mtf itlfrnv - - J -o-- away. Which was rash. It was a good cigar," regretfully; "and I havou't many left. Must take to smoking shag like Old Ikey does. He enjoys it." "Don't be horrid." "I got tired of walking up and down, so I stopped short in the mid dle of the floor, aud fixed my eyes up on the carpet pattern. It's an awfully go-jd plan that. The carpet spoke back to mo. It said " "Yes?" "Oh, it said, yon bone-idle beggar, you've w asted your manhood, yon have tottered in tho vineyard (metaphori cally, of course you can't totter iu vineyards where there aren't any stands to reason) while others toiled, and all that sort of thing, don't you know. Yet all the time, some impos sible dream a dream of great happi ness has haunted yon. You have drifted, drifted, like a boat bottom np, with this happiness quite close to you. Yon had bnt to go forth into the world, and and win your spurs and yon didn't go. That's what the carpet said. Extraordinary bit of Brussels, wasn't it?" "Yes. Didn't it say anything else?" "Lots of things. It said I must lose this woman 1 loved because I was ruined." "Ruined!" "Yes, mined ; and all that sort of thing. I have been living on capital instead of interest. The only redeem ing feature about the affair is that the gallery will have to go. You see, it's hard lines on a fel'ow to have nothing but a gallery left to him ; he can't live up to it ; and yet he has to do so. None of those ruffianly old ancestors of mine ever did a day's work in their lives. I'm afraid I haven't done much. But why should I bore you with this?" "Yon don't bore me, and you suf fer!" "It is a trifle unpleasant." "You didn't think it would be par ticularly pleasant?" "I was horridly bored by that gal lery. Lady Edith of the White Hand will fetch a good price from a soap man. I couldn't have stood that de pressing female much longer. She had a way of sticking her hand out at one, as if . fellow oouldn't live 'up to it. I'm sure I didn't want live np to it. I'm thinking of joining the mounted police in the Northwest Territory. They're a splendid lot; and there's al ways the pleasureable excitement of being scalped by The-Man-Who-Rides-A-Mule With-His-Faoe-To-The-Tail, or come other equally Jong-named hero." "The experience wouldn't be of much use to you because it could only happen once." "Yes, I suppose so. There are worse things than being soalped." "Possibly." "And so goodby to the old times aud to to Lady Edith. When a man is on the brink of ruin it is best for hiin to forget everything." "Yes," she said almost inaudibly. "It is best for him to forget, but not everything. I I am very sorry for you." He pressed her hand lightly to his lips. She knew that this was his characteristic farewell to the hopes he ha I cherished. Womanlike, she was angry at his silence. And then his wretched pride. She bad enough money for both. What did bis poverty matter? Hadn't he that delightful gallery of ancestors, some of whom, if report spoke truly, were little better than the wicked. You couldn't buy family portraits like that. There were plenty of dubious old masters in the market, but few undoubtedly "old mississes," as Mr. Eggleston called them. And here was this irrational youth, who loved her, going off to be scalped by Pawnees, or Comanches, or Sioux, or Apaches, or any other outlandish tribe of Indians with whom fate might confront him. Why not stay at home and have his hair pulled only in the family circle? And it was such beautiful hair 1 He disappeared in the darkness, feeling that desperate sorrow which only comes to a man once in a life time, for the simple reason that he couldn't possibly live through it twice. "By Jove," he muttered be tween his set teeth, "it would go hard with any one who crossed me to night." "Har Harry!" gurgled a choking voice from the shrubs. " 'Elp 'Elp 1" The next moment Harry had jnmped into the bushes. A bullet whizzed by his ear as he did so, and a cowardly ruffian who had half strangled Mr. Eggleton fled into the uuknown. "My wife's portrait," cried Mr. Eggleston. "They knocked me down as I was coming up the walk " Harry rau swiftly down the avenne, his pulses tingling with fleroe joy, and all the savage within him revelling in tha prospect of a tight. Just as he reached the gate his foot tripped against a rope, which was stretched across the drive. There was another shot a redhot, searing, tearing dart in his shoulder and ho fell forward on his face, whilst the cracksmen made off across the field, cursing their own stupidity in begin ning operations so prematurely. Porkins disappeared with them. Harry was carried into the bouse aud laid on a couch. Dootors were tolegraphed for right and left. For hours ho remained with pallid features aud closed eyes. The dootors shook their heads aud looked wise. The wound was a serious one ; the bullet hard to find ; if certain things didn't happen the patient would recover ; if they did happen, he wouldn't ; that was all that could be extracted from them as they nodded with sphinx-like gravity, and returned to their pa tient. Sempronia sat beside Harry through tho long night. It was nseless to dis simulate any more. She was quite tearless aud as white as wax. Every now and then she moistened his lips or smoothed tho pillow, but did not give way to her grief. It was only toward morning on the seoond day after the doctors had extracted the bullet that she betrayed any excite ment. In the cold, gray dawn a robin, deluded into momentary cheerfulness by tho thought that spring would surely oome some duy, began to twit ter his eheery melody to tho case ment's glimmering square. . The song of the bird smote Sempro nia. She shivered, nud, bending over the wounded man, kissed him passion ately. "Ah," she tuoauod, as she Hung kerself on her kuees by the oouoh, "J was cold and hard and cruel to yon, but I never meant to let you leave me. I would have followed yon to the world's end for one word of love, bnt you were so proud so proud that I could never humble myself to toll you so. And now now you will not know it." She pushed back her hair and stared with wild, wan eyes into the gray dawn. Then a wonderful thing hap pened. The sleeping man opened his eyes and smiled. From that moment he grew better. "I seemed to hear your voice faintly and afar off," ho explained, when he was able to "sit np and take a tittle nourishment," as Mr. Eggleston put it. "I was crossing a gray river, accompanied by an old man who was half clad in skins. As we drew near to the opposite shore, dim ly discernible through the gloom, pale phantoms came down to meet us, and then then I heard your voice, and all was well." "Yes," she made answer, softly, "all was well. God has been very good to us, and all is well." ' 'And if anybody 's got to be scalped," said old Mr. Eggleston, fondly snr veying the young couple, "let's 'ope as it'll be those ruffians as garottod me when that sanctimonious Porkins (the butler) helped 'em to get my watoh. Anyhow, they'll have their hair cut short at Her Majesty's ex pense for some time, bless her. It's refreshing after these years of paying taxes to get something for it." De troit Free Press. SCIENTIFIC AM) INDUSTRIAL. Only nine per cent, of surgical operations in amputation are fatal. In the East Indies there are spiders so large that they feed on small birds. The underground electric railroad in London is in places sixty feet below tho surface. The first furrow plowed by electrio plows in America was on March 30, 1892, at the Kansas Sorghum Experi ment Station. A new penuy-in-the-slot machine scares away tamperers by sounding an alarm and shocking them with a strong electrio current. The gannet, or solan goose, is pro vided with an air cushion under his skin. His body contains about 1G0 cubic inches of air. There are some vegetables that can scarcely be distinguished from ani mals, and .some animals that seem to have all the characteristics of a vegetable. Toads and frogs carry a supply of water about with them in a sack pro vided for the purpose, and if by accident the supply becomes exhausted the animal dies. The Bovista gigantea, a speoies of fungus, will grow in one night from the size of a pea to as large as a water melon. Its increase of cells per minute has been estimated at 66,000, 000. The observations of Parkes and Francis buow that the lungs of Euro peans dying iu India are lighter than the European standard after death, proving that these organs, being brought less into physiological activity, diminish in size. That cats will occasionally hunt after butterflies has been affirmed by a British periodical, and recently ob served by Dr. Jentick, of Holland. Probably many have observed them jumping after, catching and eating grasshoppers with a relish. Mr. Michaels has recently studied the relations between many mites au I certain ants in whose nests they are boarders. A strange case is tuat of a species of Bdella, which lives habitu ally in a spider's web in harmonious relations with the otherwise ferocious host. It is a surprising fact that though the human body has in it a great num ber of organic salts, we take only one from iuorgauio nature to add to our food, and that is sodium chloride or common salt. All other salts aro present iu orgauio food stuffs, in quantities sufficient for our require ments ; we have no need to seek for them elsewhere. An immense deposit of auriferous ore in one mass, a mile wide by two miles long, is reported to have been disoovered between Rat Portage aud Port Arthur, sereuty miles south of the Canadian Paoitio Railway. Assays average $3 iu gold and $t in silver. Geologists have expressed the opinion that the deposit may be from M Ji)J to 10.00J feet deep. It is reported that Donald II. Farquhar, of St. Louis, has succeeded in so concentrating tho electrio light that it will illume the brain. Tho sumo plan can also be adopted wiiun it is necessary to study tho pathological condition iu other parts of tho body. A small coue of light from au H :M cundle power lamp is mado to pene trate the tissues, au I it is said that broken bones can be studied aud in juries learned that could not be de termined by the ordinary methods of examination. Relief From Fatigue. A warm bath, with an ounce of sea salt, is almost as restful as a nap. Paddle in the wa'er until it cools, aud if not too susceptible to oold, dry without rubbing with a towel, resting the feet ou a sofa or chair, so as to be off the floor. Put on fresh stockings, aud the person who "was ready to drop" will then be ready to staud up. But the quickest relief lroiu fatigue is to plunge the foot iu ice-cold water, and keep it immersud until ther is a seusatiou of warmth. Philadelphia Ledger, The silver production in the Unite 1 States in 1SU3 was (J0,U00,000,OU J ounoea. RECRUITS FOR THE ARMY. HOW TTNCLB SAM OBTAINS HIS SOLDIER BOYS. All Must t'ndergo a Physical Exam ination The Term They Must Serve and the Pay They Hecelve. IT happens occasionally that peo ple see in their wanderings about town a flag flying from the seo d ond-story window of a building on the corner of Woodward avenne and Congress street, and aro curious to know what mission of peace or war it represents. Inquiry in the drug store immediately beneath, or a close inspection of some letters on the build ing in the vicinity of the flag, ex plains its presence The letters form this sign : RECRUITING OFFICE, U. 8. A. ! Further investigation reveals the fact that this ante-room of glory opens on the Congress street side, where a Boldier in the uniform of the United States army stands at attention in the doorway, his white-gloved hands held in military fashion at his side, bnt holding neither gun nor sword. He is n soldier of peace, the office orderly who stands there, not to guard tho premises, but to soy, "This way, boys," to the would-be recruits who are looking for the enlisting office. The candidate for military honors goeB upstairs, dreading the ordeal at every step, and finds himself in a large room, where the recruiting officer sits at a table attended by a sergeant and an orderly in the imposing uniform which the candidate for enlistment hopes to don. "I want to 'list,'" he sayc, ap proaching the table. Captain Noble looks np. "Take off your hat," The hat is sheepishly removed. "What is your age?" "Twenty years old." "Are your people willing?" "They are, sir." "Married?" "No, sir." "Ever been in jail?" At this the candidate looks surprised and hurt, and answers in the negative quite forcibly enough to be convinc ing. Then the sergeant takes the man in hand, looks down his throat, examines his teeth, weighs him, takes hight and finds out his reason for wanting to en list. If he tips the beam at regulation weight, not less than 128 nor more than 190, measures not less than five foot four inches, he comes up to tho requirements of on able-bodied soldier, and is sent into another room to dis robe. Then he is again weighed and measured and put through a course of physical exercise that brings out any disability that may exist in bold re lief. If he is gymnastically correct, can bend his body like a contortionist, expand and contract his chest without getting breathless, prove that every toe and finger is capable of active ser vice, and that his back is limber enough to enable him to stoop either way, he is accepted and registered and taken to the captain's office to bo sworn iu. But first be must answer a personal category of questions, aud must make sfliduvit that he has neither wife nor child. The laws that regulate army life are then read to him. He is shown the fate of the man who enlists under a false oath, or who, once en listed, deserts before his time is up. He has now the gala dress on for which bis bouI has hankered, he wears tho regimentals of a private soldier in the United States army. He dare not walk out of that oflieo without leave from his superior officer. He is an en listed man for three or five years, as the case may be, and the recipient of f 13 a month in Uncle Sam's money. The following is the rate of pay as sow established: Fay lr Fay p.T Pay for Grade. munlb. year live yeurf Privates cavalry, artil lery and infantry 13 156 7s0 Field musicians cavalry, artillery and infantry... IS J56 70 Saddlers Cavalry. .. ... 15 10 900 Farriers and blacksmlliia Cavalry 15 ISO VM Corporals Cavalry, artil lery and iubntry 15 1H0 IKK) Sergeants Cavalry, artil lery and infantry 17 204 lOiiO First sergeant ol a com pany Cavalry, artillery and infantry 22 2C4 1320 Baddler sergeant Cavalry 2 J 2(14 1M) Chief trumpeter of cavalry 22 264 lUiO l'riaolpal musician Artil lery aud Infunlry 22 2fi4 1.12'l Replmental quartermaster sergeant Cavalry, artil lery and Infantry 23 276 13H0 Sergeant major Cavalry, artillery snd Infunlry... 23 276 1383 Sergeants of post uou-cu.ii-missioned stuff 34 40H 2041 The term of service for a Boldier en listing under tho present rules of army life is live years, but in accor dance with a law passed in lM'.K) a sol dier after serving one year can pur chase au honorable discharge, $120 being the maximum price. Although the pay of a private sol dier seems almost inadequate to meet his living expenses, it must be remem bered that iu addition to the $13 a mouth he receives bis rations, cloth ing, bedding, medical services and medicines free. There are libraries, reading rooms aud post schools, where men who need instruction can be taught a fair knowledge of necessary English branches, and where foreigners can improve in their us. of the English language. A large percentage of Uncle Sam's soldier boys are American only by adoption, but they must be able to read aud write before they take the oath of allegiance aud become sol diers. Detroit Free Press. At the latest auction sale of ivory in London, all kinds of tusk brought lower price-, one cause being th. ah seuoe of oiders from Amerioa, YOU AND J. Ton ami I for a mtl togother, Ovir the greensward to th trees. Breathing the scent of the wild sweet clovr, M.'oomlng for hungry bees. Bummer days are full of dreaming, (Mou ls like the fancies lovers weave Silent and Itirht as a dream of morning, Swift gliding the shadows they leave. Yon and I for a life together. Over the highways thick with dust, Stones and ruts where the feet must follow, Softened and smoothed by your loving trust. Summer days of gleams and shadows, Joys all hidden 'neath winter snows I But joy and hope, and love, forever, Iear henrt, out of your sweet face grows, O. W. Ogden. HUMOR OF THE IAV. rost-mortem Deadwood, Dak. A lover of old books The moth. Mercury. To the victors belong the privilege of fighting over the spoils. Puck. Contentment is better than money, aud juRt about as scarce. Texas Sift ing. Money that is hoarded is no moro use t inn bread that is buried. Mil waukee Journal. We all of us live and learn ; but some of us live a great deal more than we learn. Puck. The tramp will not descend to slan when it comes to using ' -"soap" as a synonym of money. Puck. rather tommy, what s your mother baking a cake?" Tommy "Can't tell yet. It isn't done." Life. Most men would be pretty well sat isfied with the world if no one in it were better off than themselves. Puck. There are some mortals who are never happy save when they havo some hurt feelings to enjoy. Galveston News. Every man should try to live so that the world will not be made very much better by his getting out of it. Gal veston News. I( a womau's age could be told by her teeth, like a horse's, mau would occasionally have a chance to edge a word in. Puck. Lover "I assure you, Herr Meyer, I cannot live without your daughter." Herr Meyer "Oh, you overestimate my income." Fliegendo Blustter. "Ah !" remarked tho great musician as he walked the floor with his howling offspring in his arms, "it is much easier to compose a grand opera than a wakeful baby." "Dapper feels terribly uncomforta ble about his wife's mannish ways." "Goes in for athletics, eh?" "No, but she won't learn to build a lire. " Chicago Inter-Ocean. "I understand you've bought a doa; to keep burglars away?" "Yei." "Yon are not troubled any more at night, then, I suppose!" "Ouly by the dog." Tit-Bit-. Court "Why should tho prisoner have an interpretei ? Can't ho speak English?" Attorney "No, your honor, he's a railway tminm.iu." Clevel'ind Plain Dealer. it will be notioed that the man who advertises a sure scheme for getting rich in a hurry always requests you to inclose a tew postage stamps for bis recipe. Washington Post. "..est aud change are good for peo ple," said the wife as she rose iu the uilit to riile her husband's pockets. "I've had a rest, and now I think I'll have a littlo change." Buffalo Courier. White -"I wonder that Gray should tank of marry in;; thtt woman. She is not on speaking terms with her own mother." Black "Perhaps that is why Gray marries her." Boston Trauscript. Mother "What have you done to your littlo sister?" Boy--"Xothiu" 'Then what is she cryiu' for?" "I duuiio. Guess she's cryin' because sue can't think of anything to cry for." - Good News. Mrs. Bewtay "Yes. Patrick, that is my picture; but it Matters me a lit tle." Patrick "It would have to flatter you a good deal, mum, to look as wellnsyo-.i do iu my eyes, mum." Boston TrauHcript. " What's old Swizzles, tho million aire, looking so pleased about? Ho just lost $10,000 in stocks." "Ye, but r I ter ward he managed to got a free ticket toa seveuty-tive-cent show." Washington Star. Papa "Are you sure that you and mamma thought of me while you were away?" Little Grace "Ves; we hear 1 a mau just scolding awful about his breakfast, and mamma said, That's just like papa,'" Chicago Inter-Ocean. Clerk - "Does it take you au hour to go around the corner?" Boy "A icau dropped a quarter down a bole iu the sidewalk." Clerk "Ami it took you all this time to get it out?" Bov "Yes, sir. 1 had to wait till the mau went away." Harlem Life. He "You are the only woman I have ever loved." She "Do you ex pect me to believe that?" He "I do. I swear it is true." She "Theu 1 believe you. Any man who would expect a woman to believe that can not have been much in the oompany of women." Harper's Bazar. A Damn Detector. In England they have what is called a "damp detector," a silver trinket, uot unlike a compass iu appoarauoe. At tho back are small holes in tho sil ver, through which the damp passe i anil moves the ueudle until it point to the word "damp." By the aid i f this contrince uuaired sheets can b. de teo ted. Hard war..
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